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Detecting action units (AUs) on human faces is challenging because various AUs make subtle facial appearance change over various regions at different scales. Current works have attempted to recognize AUs by emphasizing important regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Junhai Yong

Facial action units (AUs) are essential to decode human facial expressions. Researchers have focused on training AU detectors with a variety of features and classifiers. However, several issues remain. These are spatial representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Wen-Sheng Chu , Fernando De la Torre , Jeffrey F. Cohn

Pain is a common occurrence among patients admitted to Intensive Care Units. Pain assessment in ICU patients still remains a challenge for clinicians and ICU staff, specifically in cases of non-verbal sedated, mechanically ventilated, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Subhash Nerella , Kia Khezeli , Andrea Davidson , Patrick Tighe , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

Face recognition, as one of the most successful applications in artificial intelligence, has been widely used in security, administration, advertising, and healthcare. However, the privacy issues of public face datasets have attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Kai Wang , Bo Zhao , Xiangyu Peng , Zheng Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Xinchao Wang , Hakan Bilen , Yang You

Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xiaotian Li , Zhihua Li , Huiyuan Yang , Geran Zhao , Lijun Yin

Facial micro-expressions are spontaneous, brief and subtle facial motions that unveil the underlying, suppressed emotions. Detecting Action Units (AUs) in micro-expressions is crucial because it yields a finer representation of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Huai-Qian Khor , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Guoying Zhao

This paper proposes a supervised learning approach to jointly perform facial Action Unit (AU) localisation and intensity estimation. Contrary to previous works that try to learn an unsupervised representation of the Action Unit regions, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Enrique Sanchez-Lozano , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Michel Valstar

Facial action unit (AU) recognition is essential to facial expression analysis. Since there are highly positive or negative correlations between AUs, some existing AU recognition works have focused on modeling AU relations. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yao Wei , Haoxiang Wang , Mingze Sun , Jiawang Liu

Facial action units (AUs) play an indispensable role in human emotion analysis. We observe that although AU-based high-level emotion analysis is urgently needed by real-world applications, frame-level AU results provided by previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yingjie Chen , Jiarui Zhang , Tao Wang , Yun Liang

Facial attribute analysis has received considerable attention when deep learning techniques made remarkable breakthroughs in this field over the past few years. Deep learning based facial attribute analysis consists of two basic sub-issues:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xin Zheng , Yanqing Guo , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Ran He

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and adversarial detection (FAD) have been regarded as critical technologies to ensure the safety of face recognition systems. However, due to limited practicality, complex deployment, and the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jiawei Chen , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Zhaoxia Yin

The domain diversities including inconsistent annotation and varied image collection conditions inevitably exist among different facial expression recognition (FER) datasets, which pose an evident challenge for adapting the FER model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Kai Wang , Yuxin Gu , Xiaojiang Peng , Panpan Zhang , Baigui Sun , Hao Li

This paper describes an approach to the facial action unit (AU) detection. In this work, we present our submission to the Field Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2021 competition. The proposed method uses the pre-trained JAA model as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Chenggong Zhang , Juan Song , Qingyang Zhang , Weilong Dong , Ruomeng Ding , Zhilei Liu

The proliferation of facial recognition systems presents major privacy risks, driving the need for effective countermeasures. Current adversarial techniques apply generalized methods rather than adapting to individual facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Paweł Jakub Borsukiewicz , Jordan Samhi , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Facial action unit (AU) detection in the wild is a challenging problem, due to the unconstrained variability in facial appearances and the lack of accurate annotations. Most existing methods depend on either impractical labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhiwen Shao , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

The detection of AI-generated faces is commonly approached as a binary classification task. Nevertheless, the resulting detectors frequently struggle to adapt to novel AI face generators, which evolve rapidly. In this paper, we describe an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mian Zou , Baosheng Yu , Yibing Zhan , Kede Ma

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition(DFER) is a rapidly evolving field of research that focuses on the recognition of time-series facial expressions. While previous research on DFER has concentrated on feature learning from a deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Feng Liu , Lingna Gu , Chen Shi , Xiaolan Fu

Facial Action Units (AUs) are essential for conveying psychological states and emotional expressions. While automatic AU detection systems leveraging deep learning have progressed, they often overfit to specific datasets and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Xuesong Niu , Yi Ding , Xiu-Shen Wei , Cuntai Guan

This paper tackles the challenging problem of estimating the intensity of Facial Action Units with few labeled images. Contrary to previous works, our method does not require to manually select key frames, and produces state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Anestis Zaganidis , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

It is challenging to recognize facial action unit (AU) from spontaneous facial displays, especially when they are accompanied by speech. The major reason is that the information is extracted from a single source, i.e., the visual channel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Zibo Meng , Shizhong Han , Ping Liu , Yan Tong