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Micro-expressions, characterized by transience and subtlety, pose challenges to existing optical flow-based recognition methods. To address this, this paper proposes a dual-branch micro-expression feature extraction network integrated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mingjie Zhang , Bo Li , Wanting Liu , Hongyan Cui , Yue Li , Qingwen Li , Hong Li , Ge Gao

One of the most important subconscious reactions, micro-expression (ME), is a spontaneous, subtle, and transient facial expression that reveals human beings' genuine emotion. Therefore, automatically recognizing ME (MER) is becoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sirui Zhao , Huaying Tang , Xinglong Mao , Shifeng Liu , Yiming Zhang , Hao Wang , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief and involuntary facial expressions that occur when people are trying to hide their true feelings or conceal their emotions. Based on psychology research, MEs play an important role in understanding genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Thuong-Khanh Tran , Quang-Nhat Vo , Xiaopeng Hong , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Relatively small data sets available for expression recognition research make the training of deep networks for expression recognition very challenging. Although fine-tuning can partially alleviate the issue, the performance is still below…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Hui Ding , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Rama Chellappa

In this paper, we propose an approach for Facial Expressions Recognition (FER) based on a deep multi-facial patches aggregation network. Deep features are learned from facial patches using deep sub-networks and aggregated within one deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ahmed Rachid Hazourli , Amine Djeghri , Hanan Salam , Alice Othmani

The face expression is the first thing we pay attention to when we want to understand a person's state of mind. Thus, the ability to recognize facial expressions in an automatic way is a very interesting research field. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrico Randellini , Leonardo Rigutini , Claudio Sacca'

One of the most universal ways that people communicate is through facial expressions. In this paper, we take a deep dive, implementing multiple deep learning models for facial expression recognition (FER). Our goals are twofold: we aim not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Amil Khanzada , Charles Bai , Ferhat Turker Celepcikay

This paper focuses on the research of micro-expression recognition (MER) and proposes a flexible and reliable deep learning method called learning to rank onset-occurring-offset representations (LTR3O). The LTR3O method introduces a dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jie Zhu , Yuan Zong , Jingang Shi , Cheng Lu , Hongli Chang , Wenming Zheng

Facial expression spotting is the preliminary step for micro- and macro-expression analysis. The task of reliably spotting such expressions in video sequences is currently unsolved. The current best systems depend upon optical flow methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Chuin Hong Yap , Moi Hoon Yap , Adrian K. Davison , Connah Kendrick , Jingting Li , Sujing Wang , Ryan Cunningham

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary, low-intensity, and short-duration facial expressions that often reveal an individual's genuine thoughts and emotions. Most existing ME analysis methods rely on window-level classification with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zizheng Guo , Bochao Zou , Yinuo Jia , Xiangyu Li , Huimin Ma

Deep neural networks have been widely used for feature learning in facial expression recognition systems. However, small datasets and large intra-class variability can lead to overfitting. In this paper, we propose a method which learns an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Negar Heidari , Alexandros Iosifidis

Spotting facial micro-expression from videos finds various potential applications in fields including clinical diagnosis and interrogation, meanwhile this task is still difficult due to the limited scale of training data. To solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi Zhang , Youjun Zhao , Yuhang Wen , Zixuan Tang , Xinhua Xu , Mengyuan Liu

Micro expression recognition (MER) is crucial for inferring genuine emotion. Applying a multimodal large language model (MLLM) to this task enables spatio-temporal analysis of facial motion and provides interpretable descriptions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ren Zhang , Huilai Li , Chao qi , Guoliang Xu , Tianyu Zhou , Wei wei , Jianqin Yin

Micro-expressions (MEs), brief and low-intensity facial movements revealing concealed emotions, are crucial for affective computing. Despite notable progress in ME recognition, existing methods are largely confined to discrete emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sirui Zhao , Zhengye Zhang , Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Shukang Yin , Chaoyou Fu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

With wearing masks becoming a new cultural norm, facial expression recognition (FER) while taking masks into account has become a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a unified multi-branch vision transformer for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Armando Zhu , Keqin Li , Tong Wu , Peng Zhao , Bo Hong

Facial Expression Recognition from static images is a challenging problem in computer vision applications. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), the state-of-the-art method for various computer vision tasks, has had limited success in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rohan Wadhawan , Tapan K. Gandhi

Deep facial expression recognition faces two challenges that both stem from the large number of trainable parameters: long training times and a lack of interpretability. We propose a novel method based on evolutionary algorithms, that deals…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Emmanuel Dufourq , Bruce A. Bassett

Spatial-temporal feature learning is of vital importance for video emotion recognition. Previous deep network structures often focused on macro-motion which extends over long time scales, e.g., on the order of seconds. We believe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Didan Deng , Zhaokang Chen , Yuqian Zhou , Bertram Shi

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal genuine emotions, offering valuable insights for psychological assessment and criminal investigations. Despite significant progress in automatic ME recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xinglong Mao , Shifeng Liu , Sirui Zhao , Tong Xu , Hanchao Wang , Baozhi Jia , Enhong Chen

Despite recent interest and advances in facial micro-expression research, there is still plenty room for improvement in terms of micro-expression recognition. Conventional feature extraction approaches for micro-expression video consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Sze-Teng Liong , John See , KokSheik Wong , Raphael C. -W. Phan