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Emotion recognition is involved in several real-world applications. With an increase in available modalities, automatic understanding of emotions is being performed more accurately. The success in Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Riccardo Franceschini , Enrico Fini , Cigdem Beyan , Alessandro Conti , Federica Arrigoni , Elisa Ricci

Micro-expressions (MEs) are subtle, fleeting nonverbal cues that reveal an individual's genuine emotional state. Their analysis has attracted considerable interest due to its promising applications in fields such as healthcare, criminal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Chuang Ma , Yu Pei , Jianhang Zhang , Shaokai Zhao , Bowen Ji , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

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

Facial expression recognition is an important research direction in the field of artificial intelligence. Although new breakthroughs have been made in recent years, the uneven distribution of datasets and the similarity between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingyu Nan , Feng Liu , Xuezhong Qian , Wei Song

Micro-expression recognition (MER) draws intensive research interest as micro-expressions (MEs) can infer genuine emotions. Prior information can guide the model to learn discriminative ME features effectively. However, most works focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Haoyu Chen , Guanming Lu , Jingjie Yan , Yue Xie , Guoying Zhao

Micro-expressions (MEs) are subtle, transient facial changes with very low intensity, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, yet they reveal a person genuine emotion. They are of great value in lie detection, behavioral analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Micro-expression recognition (MER), a critical subfield of affective computing, presents greater challenges than macro-expression recognition due to its brief duration and low intensity. While incorporating prior knowledge has been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Chuang Ma , Shaokai Zhao , Dongdong Zhou , Yu Pei , Zhiguo Luo , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

How to extract effective expression representations that invariant to the identity-specific attributes is a long-lasting problem for facial expression recognition (FER). Most of the previous methods process the RGB images of a sequence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiaofeng Liu , Linghao Jin , Xu Han , Jane You

Micro-expression recognition (MER) aims to recognize the short and subtle facial movements from the Micro-expression (ME) video clips, which reveal real emotions. Recent MER methods mostly only utilize special frames from ME video clips or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Haihong Hao , Shuo Wang , Huixia Ben , Yanbin Hao , Yansong Wang , Weiwei Wang

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of identifying human emotions from given data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because facial expressions contain rich emotional cues. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Kejun Liu , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen , Shiguang Shan

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 involuntary and subtle facial expressions that are thought to reveal feelings people are trying to hide. ME spotting detects the temporal intervals containing MEs in videos. Detecting such quick and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yini Fang , Didan Deng , Liang Wu , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Micro-expressions are hard to spot due to fleeting and involuntary moments of facial muscles. Interpretation of micro emotions from video clips is a challenging task. In this paper we propose an affective-motion imaging that cumulates rapid…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

Recent advances in 3D facial expression reconstruction have demonstrated remarkable performance in capturing macro-expressions, yet the reconstruction of micro-expressions remains unexplored. This novel task is particularly challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Che Sun , Xinjie Zhang , Rui Gao , Xu Chen , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

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

Facial expressions play a crucial role in human communication serving as a powerful and impactful means to express a wide range of emotions. With advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision, deep neural networks have emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yassine El Boudouri , Amine Bohi

Micro expression recognition (MER) is a very challenging area of research due to its intrinsic nature and fine-grained changes. In the literature, the problem of MER has been solved through handcrafted/descriptor-based techniques. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

The recent success of Transformer has provided a new direction to various visual understanding tasks, including video-based facial expression recognition (FER). By modeling visual relations effectively, Transformer has shown its power for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yuanyuan Liu , Wenbin Wang , Chuanxu Feng , Haoyu Zhang , Zhe Chen , Yibing Zhan

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 2026-03-11 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davison

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