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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 (AU) is a vital concept in the realm of affective computing, and AU detection has always been a hot research topic. Existing methods suffer from overfitting issues due to the utilization of a large number of learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Patient pain can be detected highly reliably from facial expressions using a set of facial muscle-based action units (AUs) defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A key characteristic of facial expression of pain is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana J. Wilkie

Current video-based Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) primarily focus on learning effective spatiotemporal representations from a visual perspective, which may lead the model to prioritize general spatial-temporal patterns but often overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shihab Aaqil Ahamed , Malitha Gunawardhana , Liel David , Michael Sidorov , Daniel Harari , Muhammad Haris Khan

Action Unit (AU) detection becomes essential for facial analysis. Many proposed approaches face challenging problems in dealing with the alignments of different face regions, in the effective fusion of temporal information, and in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Wei Li , Farnaz Abitahi , Zhigang Zhu

Unique player identification is a fundamental module in vision-driven sports analytics. Identifying players from broadcast videos can aid with various downstream tasks such as player assessment, in-game analysis, and broadcast production.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Bavesh Balaji , Jerrin Bright , Sirisha Rambhatla , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong , John Zelek , David A Clausi

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

The automatic intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) from a single image plays a vital role in facial analysis systems. One big challenge for data-driven AU intensity estimation is the lack of sufficient AU label data. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Xinhui Song , Tianyang Shi , Tianjia Shao , Yi Yuan , Zunlei Feng , Changjie Fan

Facial action unit detection has emerged as an important task within facial expression analysis, aimed at detecting specific pre-defined, objective facial expressions, such as lip tightening and cheek raising. This paper presents our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yufeng Yin , Minh Tran , Di Chang , Xinrui Wang , Mohammad Soleymani

Facial Action Units (AUs) detection is a cornerstone of objective facial expression analysis and a critical focus in affective computing. Despite its importance, AU detection faces significant challenges, such as the high cost of AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Bohao Xing , Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Heikki Kälviäinen

Facial action unit (AU) detection, aiming to classify AU present in the facial image, has long suffered from insufficient AU annotations. In this paper, we aim to mitigate this data scarcity issue by learning AU representations from a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

The activations of Facial Action Units (AUs) mutually influence one another. While the relationship between a pair of AUs can be complex and unique, existing approaches fail to specifically and explicitly represent such cues for each pair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Cheng Luo , Siyang Song , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Hatice Gunes

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

We present a novel approach for the detection of deepfake videos using a pair of vision transformers pre-trained by a self-supervised masked autoencoding setup. Our method consists of two distinct components, one of which focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Sayantan Das , Mojtaba Kolahdouzi , Levent Özparlak , Will Hickie , Ali Etemad

Facial action units (AUs) detection is fundamental to facial expression analysis. As AU occurs only in a small area of the face, region-based learning has been widely recognized useful for AU detection. Most region-based studies focus on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yao Xia

Learning 3D representation plays a critical role in masked autoencoder (MAE) based pre-training methods for point cloud, including single-modal and cross-modal based MAE. Specifically, although cross-modal MAE methods learn strong 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yaohua Zha , Huizhen Ji , Jinmin Li , Rongsheng Li , Tao Dai , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Human emotion recognition holds a pivotal role in facilitating seamless human-computer interaction. This paper delineates our methodology in tackling the Valence-Arousal (VA) Estimation Challenge, Expression (Expr) Classification Challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Weiwei Zhou , Jiada Lu , Chenkun Ling , Weifeng Wang , Shaowei Liu

Expressions and facial action units (AUs) are two levels of facial behavior descriptors. Expression auxiliary information has been widely used to improve the AU detection performance. However, most existing expression representations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Rudong An , Wei Zhang , Hao Zeng , Wei Chen , Zhigang Deng , Yu Ding

Facial Action Units (AUs) represent a set of facial muscular activities and various combinations of AUs can represent a wide range of emotions. AU recognition is often used in many applications, including marketing, healthcare, education,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Junya Saito , Xiaoyu Mi , Akiyoshi Uchida , Sachihiro Youoku , Takahisa Yamamoto , Kentaro Murase , Osafumi Nakayama

We propose a novel convolutional neural network approach to address the fine-grained recognition problem of multi-view dynamic facial action unit detection. We leverage recent gains in large-scale object recognition by formulating the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Andres Romero , Juan Leon , Pablo Arbelaez