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Recent deep face recognition models proposed in the literature utilized large-scale public datasets such as MS-Celeb-1M and VGGFace2 for training very deep neural networks, achieving state-of-the-art performance on mainstream benchmarks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Fadi Boutros , Marco Huber , Patrick Siebke , Tim Rieber , Naser Damer

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 expressions play a fundamental role in human communication. Indeed, they typically reveal the real emotional status of people beyond the spoken language. Moreover, the comprehension of human affect based on visual patterns is a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

In this paper, we provide a synthetic data generator methodology with fully controlled, multifaceted variations based on a new 3D face dataset (3DU-Face). We customized synthetic datasets to address specific types of variations (scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Jian Han , Sezer Karaoglu , Hoang-An Le , Theo Gevers

Large-scale face recognition datasets are collected by crawling the Internet and without individuals' consent, raising legal, ethical, and privacy concerns. With the recent advances in generative models, recently several works proposed…

Different from many other attributes, facial expression can change in a continuous way, and therefore, a slight semantic change of input should also lead to the output fluctuation limited in a small scale. This consistency is important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yongjian Fu , Xintian Wu , Xi Li , Zhijie Pan , Daxin Luo

It is well known that deep learning approaches to face recognition and facial landmark detection suffer from biases in modern training datasets. In this work, we propose to use synthetic face images to reduce the negative effects of dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Adam Kortylewski , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Clemens Blumer , Corius Reyneke , Thomas Vetter

Face recognition systems have significantly advanced in recent years, driven by the availability of large-scale datasets. However, several issues have recently came up, including privacy concerns that have led to the discontinuation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

Throughout the various ages, facial expressions have become one of the universal ways of non-verbal communication. The ability to recognize facial expressions would pave the path for many novel applications. Despite the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Raghu Vamshi. N , Bharathi Raja S

Facial expression recognition (FER) systems raise significant privacy concerns due to the potential exposure of sensitive identity information. This paper presents a study on removing identity information while preserving FER capabilities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Feng Xu , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Lars Petersson , Dadong Wang , Xun Li

Longitudinal face recognition in children remains challenging due to rapid and nonlinear facial growth, which causes template drift and increasing verification errors over time. This work investigates whether synthetic face data can act as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Afzal Hossain , Stephanie Schuckers

Our ability to sample realistic natural images, particularly faces, has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, yet our ability to exert fine-tuned control over the generative process has lagged behind. If this new technology is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Marek Kowalski , Stephan J. Garbin , Virginia Estellers , Tadas Baltrušaitis , Matthew Johnson , Jamie Shotton

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in computer vision and finds extensive applications across various fields. This paper aims to present our approach for the upcoming 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jun Yu , Zhihong Wei , Zhongpeng Cai , Gongpeng Zhao , Zerui Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Recently, online learning is very popular, especially under the global epidemic of COVID-19. Besides knowledge distribution, emotion interaction is also very important. It can be obtained by employing Facial Expression Recognition (FER).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Lei Zhang

The human face conveys a significant amount of information. Through facial expressions, the face is able to communicate numerous sentiments without the need for verbalisation. Visual emotion recognition has been extensively studied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani

This study investigates the possibility of mitigating the demographic biases that affect face recognition technologies through the use of synthetic data. Demographic biases have the potential to impact individuals from specific demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has remained a challenging and interesting problem. Despite efforts made in developing various methods for FER, existing approaches traditionally lack generalizability when applied to unseen…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ali Mollahosseini , David Chan , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Manipulating facial expressions is a challenging task due to fine-grained shape changes produced by facial muscles and the lack of input-output pairs for supervised learning. Unlike previous methods using Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Rumeysa Bodur , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

The ability to recognize and interpret facial emotions is a critical component of human communication, as it allows individuals to understand and respond to emotions conveyed through facial expressions and vocal tones. The recognition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Arpita Vats , Aman Chadha

Multi-view facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging task because the appearance of an expression varies in poses. To alleviate the influences of poses, recent methods either perform pose normalization or learn separate FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuanyuan Liu , Jiyao Peng , Jiabei Zeng , Shiguang Shan