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The facial expression recognition is an ocular task that can be performed without human discomfort, is really a speedily growing on the computer research field. There are many applications and programs uses facial expression to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Abdelmajid Hassan Mansour , Gafar Zen Alabdeen Salh , Ali Shaif Alhalemi

Nearly all existing Facial Action Coding System-based datasets that include facial action unit (AU) intensity information annotate the intensity values hierarchically using A--E levels. However, facial expressions change continuously and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wei Gan , Jian Xue , Ke Lu , Yanfu Yan , Pengcheng Gao , Jiayi Lyu

Face image quality is an important factor to enable high performance face recognition systems. Face quality assessment aims at estimating the suitability of a face image for recognition. Previous work proposed supervised solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

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

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, low-intensity, often localized facial expressions. They could reveal genuine emotions individuals may attempt to conceal, valuable in contexts like criminal interrogation and psychological counseling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jingting Li , Yu Qian , Lin Zhao , Su-Jing Wang

The ability to recognize facial expressions automatically enables novel applications in human-computer interaction and other areas. Consequently, there has been active research in this field, with several recent works utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Christopher Pramerdorfer , Martin Kampel

In this paper, we present SAFER, a novel system for emotion recognition from facial expressions. It employs state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to extract various features from facial images and incorporates contextual information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Mijanur Palash , Bharat Bhargava

Facial Expression Recognition faces two core challenges. The first is class imbalance in public datasets, which skews the learning process and weakens generalization. The second is related to privacy and data collection constraints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Azmoudeh , Erdi Sarıtaş , Ömer Yıldırım , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Facial expression in-the-wild is essential for various interactive computing domains. In this paper, we proposed an extended version of DAN model to address the VA estimation and facial expression challenges introduced in ABAW 2022. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jae-Yeop Jeong , Yeong-Gi Hong , Daun Kim , Yuchul Jung , Jin-Woo Jeong

Face clustering tasks can learn hierarchical semantic information from large-scale data, which has the potential to help facilitate face recognition. However, there are few works on this problem. This paper explores it by proposing a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Zhenduo Zhang

Face detection is an essential step in many computer vision applications like surveillance, tracking, medical analysis, facial expression analysis etc. Several approaches have been made in the direction of face detection. Among them,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Anjith George , Anirban Dasgupta , Aurobinda Routray

Neuromorphic sensors, also known as event cameras, are a class of imaging devices mimicking the function of biological visual systems. Unlike traditional frame-based cameras, which capture fixed images at discrete intervals, neuromorphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Alberto Del Bimbo

Face Recognition (FR) has advanced significantly with the development of deep learning, achieving high accuracy in several applications. However, the lack of interpretability of these systems raises concerns about their accountability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ivan DeAndres-Tame , Muhammad Faisal , Ruben Tolosana , Rouqaiah Al-Refai , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Philipp Terhörst

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

Deep learning vision models excel with abundant supervision, but many applications face label scarcity and class imbalance. Controllable image editing can augment scarce labeled data, yet edits often introduce artifacts and entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joris Kirchner , Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Chirag Raman

Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (\aus) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

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

Despite significant progress over the past few years, ambiguity is still a key challenge in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). It can lead to noisy and inconsistent annotation, which hinders the performance of deep learning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Quang Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

SOTA facial expression recognition (FER) methods fail on test sets that have domain gaps with the train set. Recent domain adaptation FER methods need to acquire labeled or unlabeled samples of target domains to fine-tune the FER model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yuhang Zhang , Xiuqi Zheng , Chenyi Liang , Jiani Hu , Weihong Deng

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