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Micro-expressions (MEs) are rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions that people do not intend to show. Studying MEs is valuable as recognizing them has many important applications, particularly in forensic science and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Antti Moilanen , Xiaohua Huang , Tomas Pfister , Guoying Zhao , Matti Pietikäinen

Automatic facial expression classification (FER) from videos is a critical problem for the development of intelligent human-computer interaction systems. Still, it is a challenging problem that involves capturing high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Arnaud Dapogny , Kévin Bailly , Séverine Dubuisson

Micro-facial expressions are regarded as an important human behavioural event that can highlight emotional deception. Spotting these movements is difficult for humans and machines, however research into using computer vision to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Adrian K. Davison , Cliff Lansley , Choon Ching Ng , Kevin Tan , Moi Hoon Yap

Micro-Expression Recognition has become challenging, as it is extremely difficult to extract the subtle facial changes of micro-expressions. Recently, several approaches proposed several expression-shared features algorithms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Xiaohua Huang , Feifei Zhang , Zhihong Zhang

Event cameras offer unique advantages for facial keypoint alignment under challenging conditions, such as low light and rapid motion, due to their high temporal resolution and robustness to varying illumination. However, existing RGB facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Donghwa Kang , Junho Kim , Dongwoo Kang

Despite recent interest and advances in facial micro-expression research, there is still plenty room for improvement in terms of micro-expression recognition. Conventional feature extraction approaches for micro-expression video consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Sze-Teng Liong , John See , KokSheik Wong , Raphael C. -W. Phan

Recently, the recognition task of spontaneous facial micro-expressions has attracted much attention with its various real-world applications. Plenty of handcrafted or learned features have been employed for a variety of classifiers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaopeng Hong , Xingyu Gao , Xiaoyi Feng , Guoying Zhao

The task of recognizing human facial expressions plays a vital role in various human-related systems, including health care and medical fields. With the recent success of deep learning and the accessibility of a large amount of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Jun-Hwa Kim , Namho Kim , Chee Sun Won

Extraction of discriminative features from salient facial patches plays a vital role in effective facial expression recognition. The accurate detection of facial landmarks improves the localization of the salient patches on face images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 S L Happy , Aurobinda Routray

Facial optical flow supports a wide range of tasks in facial motion analysis. However, the lack of high-resolution facial optical flow datasets has hindered progress in this area. In this paper, we introduce Splatting Rasterization Flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 JiaLin Zhang , Dong Li

When emotions are repressed, an individual's true feelings may be revealed through micro-expressions. Consequently, micro-expressions are regarded as a genuine source of insight into an individual's authentic emotions. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Feng Liu , Bingyu Nan , Xuezhong Qian , Xiaolan Fu

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging problem, due to transient and subtle micro-expression (ME) actions. Most existing methods depend on hand-crafted features, key frames like onset, apex, and offset frames, or deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Feiran Li , Yong Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Automatic facial expression spotting, which aims to identify facial expression instances in untrimmed videos, is crucial for facial expression analysis. Existing methods primarily focus on fully-supervised learning and rely on costly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yicheng Deng , Hideaki Hayashi , Hajime Nagahara

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) is crucial for understanding human behavior. However, current methods exhibit limited performance mainly due to the scarcity of high-quality data, the insufficient utilization of facial dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Haodong Chen , Haojian Huang , Junhao Dong , Mingzhe Zheng , Dian Shao

Micro-expression recognition is one of the most challenging topics in affective computing. It aims to recognize tiny facial movements difficult for humans to perceive in a brief period, i.e., 0.25 to 0.5 seconds. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Chi Nhan Duong , Xin Li , Susan Gauch , Han-Seok Seo , Khoa Luu

In this paper, we propose a new feature descriptor Cross-Centroid Ripple Pattern (CRIP) for facial expression recognition. CRIP encodes the transitional pattern of a facial expression by incorporating cross-centroid relationship between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Monu Verma , Prafulla Saxena , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh

In this paper, we aim to tackle the challenging few-shot segmentation task from a new perspective. Typical methods follow the paradigm to firstly learn prototypical features from support images and then match query features in pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Siyu Jiao , Gengwei Zhang , Shant Navasardyan , Ling Chen , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Facial expression detection involves two interrelated tasks: spotting, which identifies the onset and offset of expressions, and recognition, which classifies them into emotional categories. Most existing methods treat these tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yini Fang , Alec Diallo , Yiqi Shi , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Facial micro-expressions are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal hidden emotions. Most Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) methods that rely on optical flow typically focus on the onset-to-apex phase, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

This paper introduces a new Transformer, called MS$^2$Dformer, that can be used as a generalized backbone for multi-modal sequence spammer detection. Spammer detection is a complex multi-modal task, thus the challenges of applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhou Yang , Yucai Pang , Hongbo Yin , Yunpeng Xiao