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Effective human-agent interaction (HAI) relies on accurate and adaptive perception of human emotional states. While multimodal deep learning models - leveraging facial expressions, speech, and textual cues - offer high accuracy in emotion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Matvey Nepomnyaschiy , Oleg Pereziabov , Anvar Tliamov , Stanislav Mikhailov , Ilya Afanasyev

We used two multimodal models for continuous valence-arousal recognition using visual, audio, and linguistic information. The first model is the same as we used in ABAW2 and ABAW3, which employs the leader-follower attention. The second…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Su Zhang , Ziyuan Zhao , Cuntai Guan

In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to simultaneously analyze facial movements and several peripheral physiological signals to decode individualized affective experiences under positive and negative emotional contexts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yu Yin , Mohsen Nabian , Miolin Fan , ChunAn Chou , Maria Gendron , Sarah Ostadabbas

In this paper, we introduce Behavior4All, a comprehensive, open-source toolkit for in-the-wild facial behavior analysis, integrating Face Localization, Valence-Arousal Estimation, Basic Expression Recognition and Action Unit Detection, all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Dimitrios Kollias , Chunchang Shao , Odysseus Kaloidas , Ioannis Patras

Facial Action Units (AUs) are of great significance in the realm of affective computing. In this paper, we propose AU-LLaVA, the first unified AU recognition framework based on the Large Language Model (LLM). AU-LLaVA consists of a visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Guohong Hu , Xing Lan , Hanyu Jiang , Jiayi Lyu , Jian Xue

Automated affective computing in the wild setting is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing annotated databases of facial expressions in the wild are small and mostly cover discrete emotions (aka the categorical model). There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ali Mollahosseini , Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Deep models for facial expression recognition achieve high performance by training on large-scale labeled data. However, publicly available datasets contain uncertain facial expressions caused by ambiguous annotations or confusing emotions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yang Liu , Xingming Zhang , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

Affective states have a critical role in driving performance and safety. They can degrade driver situation awareness and negatively impact cognitive processes, severely diminishing road safety. Therefore, detecting and assessing drivers'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Daniel Lopez-Martinez , Neska El-Haouij , Rosalind Picard

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

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

Attention mechanism has recently attracted increasing attentions in the field of facial action unit (AU) detection. By finding the region of interest of each AU with the attention mechanism, AU-related local features can be captured. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Zhiwen Shao , Zhilei Liu , Jianfei Cai , Yunsheng Wu , Lizhuang Ma

We present our contribution to the 7th ABAW challenge at ECCV 2024, by utilizing a Dual-Direction Attention Mixed Feature Network (DDAMFN) for multitask facial expression recognition, we achieve results far beyond the proposed baseline for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Josep Cabacas-Maso , Elena Ortega-Beltrán , Ismael Benito-Altamirano , Carles Ventura

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

Affective computing plays a key role in human-computer interactions, entertainment, teaching, safe driving, and multimedia integration. Major breakthroughs have been made recently in the areas of affective computing (i.e., emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yan Wang , Wei Song , Wei Tao , Antonio Liotta , Dawei Yang , Xinlei Li , Shuyong Gao , Yixuan Sun , Weifeng Ge , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

The rise of online communication platforms has been accompanied by some undesirable effects, such as the proliferation of aggressive and abusive behaviour online. Aiming to tackle this problem, the natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Santhosh Rajamanickam , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

In this work, we describe our method for tackling the valence-arousal estimation challenge from ABAW FG-2020 Competition. The competition organizers provide an in-the-wild Aff-Wild2 dataset for participants to analyze affective behavior in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 I-Hsuan Li

In this paper, we present the solution to the Emotional Mimicry Intensity (EMI) Estimation challenge, which is part of 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition.The EMI Estimation challenge task aims to evaluate the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jun Yu , Wangyuan Zhu , Jichao Zhu

Balancing methods for single-label data cannot be applied to multi-label problems as they would also resample the samples with high occurrences. We propose to reformulate this problem as an optimization problem in order to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ines Rieger , Jaspar Pahl , Dominik Seuss

Large language models (LLMs) enable increasingly capable tutoring-style conversational agents, yet effective tutoring requires sensitivity to learners' affective and cognitive states beyond text alone. Facial expressions provide immediate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shuangquan Feng , Laura Fleig , Ruisen Tu , Philip Chi , Edmund Bu , Melinda Ozel , Junhua Ma , Teng Fei , Virginia R. de Sa

Human emotions analysis has been the focus of many studies, especially in the field of Affective Computing, and is important for many applications, e.g. human-computer intelligent interaction, stress analysis, interactive games, animations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Mohammad Rami Koujan , Luma Alharbawee , Giorgos Giannakakis , Nicolas Pugeault , Anastasios Roussos