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Automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has gained much attention due to its applications in human-computer interaction. Among the approaches to improve FER tasks, this paper focuses on deep architecture with the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Luan Pham , The Huynh Vu , Tuan Anh Tran

Automatically recognizing emotional intent using facial expression has been a thoroughly investigated topic in the realm of computer vision. Facial Expression Recognition (FER), being a supervised learning task, relies heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Aryan Seth , Pratik Narang

Batch Normalization (BN) is widely used in {centralized} deep learning to improve convergence and generalization. However, in {federated} learning (FL) with decentralized data, prior work has observed that training with BN could hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jike Zhong , Hong-You Chen , Wei-Lun Chao

Transformers have shown dominant performance across a range of domains including language and vision. However, their computational cost grows quadratically with the sequence length, making their usage prohibitive for resource-constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yinghan Long , Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury , Kaushik Roy

This study introduces a new normalization layer termed Batch Layer Normalization (BLN) to reduce the problem of internal covariate shift in deep neural network layers. As a combined version of batch and layer normalization, BLN adaptively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Amir Ziaee , Erion Çano

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and their variations have shown effectiveness in facial expression recognition (FER). However, they face challenges when dealing with high computational complexity and multi-view head poses in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ali Ezati , Mohammadreza Dezyani , Rajib Rana , Roozbeh Rajabi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

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

Despite the significant success of deep learning in computer vision tasks, cross-domain tasks still present a challenge in which the model's performance will degrade when the training set and the test set follow different distributions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lei Qi , Dongjia Zhao , Yinghuan Shi , Xin Geng

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated excellent performance on super-resolution visual tasks, surpassing conventional convolutional neural networks. However, existing work typically restricts self-attention computation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Shu-Chuan Chu , Zhi-Chao Dou , Jeng-Shyang Pan , Shaowei Weng , Junbao Li

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the six basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2022. In Learing from Synthetic Data(LSD) task, facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Shuyi Mao , Xinpeng Li , Junyao Chen , Xiaojiang Peng

Transformers and large language models (LLMs), powered by the attention mechanism, have transformed numerous AI applications, driving the need for specialized hardware accelerators. A major challenge in these accelerators is efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Vasileios Titopoulos , Kosmas Alexandridis , Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos

The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

Batch Normalization (BN) and its variants have delivered tremendous success in combating the covariate shift induced by the training step of deep learning methods. While these techniques normalize feature distributions by standardizing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Mandy Lu , Qingyu Zhao , Jiequan Zhang , Kilian M. Pohl , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles , Ehsan Adeli

Multi-head self-attention (MHSA) is a key component of Transformers, a widely popular architecture in both language and vision. Multiple heads intuitively enable different parallel processes over the same input. Yet, they also obscure the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Pooyan Rahmanzadehgervi , Hung Huy Nguyen , Rosanne Liu , Long Mai , Anh Totti Nguyen

Batch normalization (BN) is a ubiquitous technique for training deep neural networks that accelerates their convergence to reach higher accuracy. However, we demonstrate that BN comes with a fundamental drawback: it incentivizes the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Ali Gholami , Fereshte Khani , Kristy Choi , Linh Tran , Ran Zhang , Aliasghar Khani

Eye movement (EM) is a new highly secure biometric behavioral modality that has received increasing attention in recent years. Although deep neural networks, such as convolutional neural network (CNN), have recently achieved promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Huafeng Qin , Hongyu Zhu , Xin Jin , Qun Song , Mounim A. El-Yacoubi , Xinbo Gao

Existing facial expression recognition (FER) methods typically fine-tune a pre-trained visual encoder using discrete labels. However, this form of supervision limits to specify the emotional concept of different facial expressions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hangyu Li , Yihan Xu , Jiangchao Yao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han

Facial expression recognition (FER), aiming to classify the expression present in the facial image or video, has attracted a lot of research interests in the field of artificial intelligence and multimedia. In terms of video based FER task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Daizong Liu , Hongting Zhang , Pan Zhou

BERT-enhanced neural machine translation (NMT) aims at leveraging BERT-encoded representations for translation tasks. A recently proposed approach uses attention mechanisms to fuse Transformer's encoder and decoder layers with BERT's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhebin Zhang , Sai Wu , Dawei Jiang , Gang Chen

Multi-modal named entity recognition (MNER) aims at identifying entity spans and recognizing their categories in social media posts with the aid of images. However, in dominant MNER approaches, the interaction of different modalities is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Junyu Lu , Dixiang Zhang , Pingjian Zhang