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Micro-expressions (MEs) are spontaneous, unconscious facial expressions that have promising applications in various fields such as psychotherapy and national security. Thus, micro-expression recognition (MER) has attracted more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ruolin Li , Lu Wang , Tingting Yang , Lisheng Xu , Bingyang Ma , Yongchun Li , Hongchao Wei

Facial expressions are important cues to observe human emotions. Facial expression recognition has attracted many researchers for years, but it is still a challenging topic since expression features vary greatly with the head poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 S. D. Lalitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) is a challenging task as the subtle changes occur over different action regions of a face. Changes in facial action regions are formed as Action Units (AUs), and AUs in micro-expressions can be seen as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Ming Dong

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging problem, due to transient and subtle micro-expression (ME) actions. Most existing methods depend on hand-crafted features, key frames like onset, apex, and offset frames, or deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Feiran Li , Yong Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

The automatic recognition of micro-expression has been boosted ever since the successful introduction of deep learning approaches. As researchers working on such topics are moving to learn from the nature of micro-expression, the practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , XiangDong Zhou , Yu shi

The use of deep learning techniques for automatic facial expression recognition has recently attracted great interest but developed models are still unable to generalize well due to the lack of large emotion datasets for deep learning. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Dung Nguyen , Kien Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Iman Abbasnejad , David Dean , Clinton Fookes

Facial expression is related to facial muscle contractions and different muscle movements correspond to different emotional states. For micro-expression recognition, the muscle movements are usually subtle, which has a negative impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Unlike macro-expression, micro-expression does not follow a strictly consistent mapping rule between emotions and Action Units (AUs). As a result, some micro-expressions share identical AUs yet represent completely opposite emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxing Hu , Kun Xie , Qiguang Miao , Ruyi Liu , Quan Wang , Zongkai Yang

A micro-expression is a spontaneous unconscious facial muscle movement that can reveal the true emotions people attempt to hide. Although manual methods have made good progress and deep learning is gaining prominence. Due to the short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Fengping Wang , Jie Li , Chun Qi , Lin Wang , Pan Wang

Deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Most of the existing deep learning based FER methods do not consider domain knowledge well, which thereby fail to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yuedong Chen , Jianfeng Wang , Shikai Chen , Zhongchao Shi , Jianfei Cai

Cross-database micro-expression recognition (CDMER) is one of recently emerging and interesting problem in micro-expression analysis. CDMER is more challenging than the conventional micro-expression recognition (MER), because the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yuan Zong , Tong Zhang , Wenming Zheng , Xiaopeng Hong , Chuangao Tang , Zhen Cui , Guoying Zhao

Micro-Expression (ME) is the spontaneous, involuntary movement of a face that can reveal the true feeling. Recently, increasing researches have paid attention to this field combing deep learning techniques. Action units (AUs) are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ling Lo , Hong-Xia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Lijun Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Weicheng Tang , Xinzhi Sun , Xiaomeng Wang , Zhanshan Li

Emotions play a central role in the social life of every human being, and their study, which represents a multidisciplinary subject, embraces a great variety of research fields. Especially concerning the latter, the analysis of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Facial micro-expressions, characterized by their subtle and brief nature, are valuable indicators of genuine emotions. Despite their significance in psychology, security, and behavioral analysis, micro-expression recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Thi Duyen Ngo , Thanh Ha Le

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task, due to the transience, subtlety, and dynamics of micro-expressions (MEs). Most existing methods resort to hand-crafted features or deep networks, in which the former often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Fan Zhang , Xuehuai Shi , Canlin Li , Lizhuang Ma , Dit-yan Yeung

Facial micro-expressions are very brief, spontaneous facial expressions that appear on the face of humans when they either deliberately or unconsciously conceal an emotion. Micro-expression has shorter duration than macro-expression, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Walied Merghani , Adrian K. Davison , Moi Hoon Yap

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Micro-expression recognition has drawn increasing attention due to its wide application in lie detection, criminal detection and psychological consultation. To improve the recognition performance of the small micro-expression data, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Hui Tang , Li Chai , Wanli Lu

Facial Micro-expression Recognition (MER) distinguishes the underlying emotional states of spontaneous subtle facialexpressions. Automatic MER is challenging because that 1) the intensity of subtle facial muscle movement is extremely lowand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Peng , Xiaopeng Hong , Yingyue Xu , Guoying Zhao