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Most facial expression recognition (FER) models are trained on large-scale expression data with centralized learning. Unfortunately, collecting a large amount of centralized expression data is difficult in practice due to privacy concerns…

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The use of large-scale, web-scraped datasets to train face recognition models has raised significant privacy and bias concerns. Synthetic methods mitigate these concerns and provide scalable and controllable face generation to enable fair…

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Recognizing pain in video is crucial for improving patient-computer interaction systems, yet traditional data collection in this domain raises significant ethical and logistical challenges. This study introduces a novel approach that…

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One of the most important subconscious reactions, micro-expression (ME), is a spontaneous, subtle, and transient facial expression that reveals human beings' genuine emotion. Therefore, automatically recognizing ME (MER) is becoming…

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Daily monitoring of intra-personal facial changes associated with health and emotional conditions has great potential to be useful for medical, healthcare, and emotion recognition fields. However, the approach for capturing intra-personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yusuke Akamatsu , Terumi Umematsu , Hitoshi Imaoka , Shizuko Gomi , Hideo Tsurushima

The rapid advancement of photorealistic generators has reached a critical juncture where the discrepancy between authentic and manipulated images is increasingly indistinguishable. Thus, benchmarking and advancing techniques detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yaning Zhang , Zitong Yu , Tianyi Wang , Xiaobin Huang , Linlin Shen , Zan Gao , Jianfeng Ren

Accurate facial estimation is crucial for realistic digital human animation, and ARKit blendshape coefficients offer an interpretable representation by mapping facial motions to semantic animation controls. However, learning high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zejian Kang , Xuanyang Xu , Wentao Yang , Kai Zheng , Yuanchen Fei , Hongyuan Zou , Hui Shan , Shuo Yang , Xiangru Huang

Current benchmarks for facial expression recognition (FER) mainly focus on static images, while there are limited datasets for FER in videos. It is still ambiguous to evaluate whether performances of existing methods remain satisfactory in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yan Wang , Yixuan Sun , Yiwen Huang , Zhongying Liu , Shuyong Gao , Wei Zhang , Weifeng Ge , Wenqiang Zhang

Compared with the image-based static facial expression recognition (SFER) task, the dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) task based on video sequences is closer to the natural expression recognition scene. However, DFER is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

In 2D+3D facial expression recognition (FER), existing methods generate multi-view geometry maps to enhance the depth feature representation. However, this may introduce false estimations due to local plane fitting from incomplete point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yang Jiao , Yi Niu , Trac D. Tran , Guangming Shi

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors that asynchronously capture pixel intensity changes with microsecond latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range, providing information on the spatiotemporal dynamics of a scene. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rodrigo Verschae , Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova

Micro-expression has emerged as a promising modality in affective computing due to its high objectivity in emotion detection. Despite the higher recognition accuracy provided by the deep learning models, there are still significant scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Facial expressions are the most common universal forms of body language. In the past few years, automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has been an active field of research. However, it is still a challenging task due to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Rauf Momin , Ali Shan Momin , Khalid Rasheed , Muhammad Saqib

It is in high demand to generate facial animation with high realism, but it remains a challenging task. Existing approaches of speech-driven facial animation can produce satisfactory mouth movement and lip synchronization, but show weakness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yutong Chen , Junhong Zhao , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Generating synthetic datasets for training face recognition models is challenging because dataset generation entails more than creating high fidelity images. It involves generating multiple images of same subjects under different factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Minchul Kim , Feng Liu , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

A key theme in the past decade has been that when large neural networks and large datasets combine they can produce remarkable results. In deep reinforcement learning (RL), this paradigm is commonly made possible through experience replay,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Cong Lu , Philip J. Ball , Yee Whye Teh , Jack Parker-Holder

In this paper, we present a unified architecture known as Transfer-Editing and Recognition Generative Adversarial Network (TER-GAN) which can be used: 1. to transfer facial expressions from one identity to another identity, known as Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Recent advances in synthesizing realistic faces have shown that synthetic training data can replace real data for various face-related computer vision tasks. A question arises: how important is realism? Is the pursuit of photorealism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Chirag Raman , Charlie Hewitt , Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrusaitis

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a crucial part of human-computer interaction. Existing FER methods achieve high accuracy and generalization based on different open-source deep models and training approaches. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gianmarco Ipinze Tutuianu , Yang Liu , Ari Alamäki , Janne Kauttonen

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) aims to identify emotional states by modeling the temporal changes in facial movements across video sequences. A key challenge in DFER is the many-to-one labeling problem, where a video composed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Gunho Jung , Heejo Kong , Seong-Whan Lee