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Micro-expressions are involuntary facial movements that cannot be consciously controlled, conveying subtle cues with substantial real-world applications. The analysis of micro-expressions generally involves two main tasks: spotting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bochao Zou , Zizheng Guo , Wenfeng Qin , Xin Li , Kangsheng Wang , Huimin Ma

Micro-expression (ME) recognition plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, particularly in public security and psychotherapy. Recently, traditional methods rely excessively on machine learning design and the recognition rate is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Jinming Liu , Ke Li , Baolin Song , Li Zhao

Facial micro-expressions are sudden involuntary minute muscle movements which reveal true emotions that people try to conceal. Spotting a micro-expression and recognizing it is a major challenge owing to its short duration and intensity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sauradip Nag , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Partha Pratim Roy

Recently, the recognition task of spontaneous facial micro-expressions has attracted much attention with its various real-world applications. Plenty of handcrafted or learned features have been employed for a variety of classifiers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaopeng Hong , Xingyu Gao , Xiaoyi Feng , Guoying Zhao

This study investigates the efficacy of facial micro-expressions as a soft biometric for enhancing person recognition, aiming to broaden the understanding of the subject and its potential applications. We propose a deep learning approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Tuval Kay , Yuval Ringel , Khen Cohen , Mor-Avi Azulay , David Mendlovic

Multi-task learning is an effective learning strategy for deep-learning-based facial expression recognition tasks. However, most existing methods take into limited consideration the feature selection, when transferring information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Rui Zhao , Tianshan Liu , Jun Xiao , Daniel P. K. Lun , Kin-Man Lam

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is a highly challenging task in affective computing. With the reduced-sized micro-expression (ME) input that contains key information based on key-frame indexes, key-frame-based methods have significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zheyuan Zhang , Weihao Tang , Hong Chen

Correctly perceiving micro-expression is difficult since micro-expression is an involuntary, repressed, and subtle facial expression, and efficiently revealing the subtle movement changes and capturing the significant segments in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiateng Liu , Wenming Zheng , Yuan Zong

Micro-expressions (MEs) are rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions that people do not intend to show. Studying MEs is valuable as recognizing them has many important applications, particularly in forensic science and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Antti Moilanen , Xiaohua Huang , Tomas Pfister , Guoying Zhao , Matti Pietikäinen

Facial expression is a standout amongst the most imperative features of human emotion recognition. For demonstrating the emotional states facial expressions are utilized by the people. In any case, recognition of facial expressions has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 S. D. Lalitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

Facial expression recognition in videos is an active area of research in computer vision. However, fake facial expressions are difficult to be recognized even by humans. On the other hand, facial micro-expressions generally represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Surya Teja Karri , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

Micro-expression recognition (MER) has achieved impressive accuracy in controlled laboratory settings. However, its real-world applicability faces a significant generalization cliff, severely hindering practical deployment due to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Linquan Wu , Tianxiang Jiang , Haoyu Yang , Wenhao Duan , Shaochao Lin , Zixuan Wang , Yini Fang , Jacky Keung

In this paper, we develop a new method that recognizes facial expressions, on the basis of an innovative local motion patterns feature, with three main contributions. The first one is the analysis of the face skin temporal elasticity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 B. Allaert , IM. Bilasco , C. Djeraba

Micro-expression recognition (\textbf{MER}) has attracted lots of researchers' attention in a decade. However, occlusion will occur for MER in real-world scenarios. This paper deeply investigates an interesting but unexplored challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Qirong Mao , Ling Zhou , Wenming Zheng , Xiuyan Shao , Xiaohua Huang

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a subset of computer vision with important applications for human-computer-interaction, healthcare, and customer service. FER represents a challenging problem-space because accurate classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ezra Engel , Lishan Li , Chris Hudy , Robert Schleusner

The recent research of facial expression recognition has made a lot of progress due to the development of deep learning technologies, but some typical challenging problems such as the variety of rich facial expressions and poses are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Wenxuan Wang , Qiang Sun , Tao Chen , Chenjie Cao , Ziqi Zheng , Guoqiang Xu , Han Qiu , Yanwei Fu

With the transition of facial expression recognition (FER) from laboratory-controlled to challenging in-the-wild conditions and the recent success of deep learning techniques in various fields, deep neural networks have increasingly been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Shan Li , Weihong Deng

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging task due to the subtle and fleeting nature of micro-expressions. Traditional input modalities, such as Apex Frame, Optical Flow, and Dynamic Image, often fail to adequately capture these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

When a person attempts to conceal an emotion, the genuine emotion is manifest as a micro-expression. Exploration of automatic facial micro-expression recognition systems is relatively new in the computer vision domain. This is due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Sze-Teng Liong , Y. S. Gan , Wei-Chuen Yau , Yen-Chang Huang , Tan Lit Ken

Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Wen-Huang Cheng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davision