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Recently, channel attention mechanism has demonstrated to offer great potential in improving the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, most existing methods dedicate to developing more sophisticated attention…

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In this paper we propose a new approach for classifying the global emotion of images containing groups of people. To achieve this task, we consider two different and complementary sources of information: i) a global representation of the…

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The key to facial expression recognition is to learn discriminative spatial-temporal representations that embed facial expression dynamics. Previous studies predominantly rely on pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to learn…

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While self-attention mechanism has shown promising results for many vision tasks, it only considers the current features at a time. We show that such a manner cannot take full advantage of the attention mechanism. In this paper, we present…

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Visual attention has been successfully applied in structural prediction tasks such as visual captioning and question answering. Existing visual attention models are generally spatial, i.e., the attention is modeled as spatial probabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Long Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Xiao , Liqiang Nie , Jian Shao , Wei Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

Facial Emotion Recognition is an inherently difficult problem, due to vast differences in facial structures of individuals and ambiguity in the emotion displayed by a person. Recently, a lot of work is being done in the field of Facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Aakash Saroop , Pathik Ghugare , Sashank Mathamsetty , Vaibhav Vasani

Detection of human emotions based on facial images in real-world scenarios is a difficult task due to low image quality, variations in lighting, pose changes, background distractions, small inter-class variations, noisy crowd-sourced…

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Emotion recognition from speech is a challenging task. Re-cent advances in deep learning have led bi-directional recur-rent neural network (Bi-RNN) and attention mechanism as astandard method for speech emotion recognition, extractingand…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Zixuan Peng , Yu Lu , Shengfeng Pan , Yunfeng Liu

We present Attention Zoom, a modular and model-agnostic spatial attention mechanism designed to improve feature extraction in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike traditional attention approaches that require architecture-specific…

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Facial emotional recognition is one of the essential tools used by recognition psychology to diagnose patients. Face and facial emotional recognition are areas where machine learning is excelling. Facial Emotion Recognition in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Nitesh Banskota , Abeer Alsadoon , P. W. C. Prasad , Ahmed Dawoud , Tarik A. Rashid , Omar Hisham Alsadoon

Facial expression recognition(FER) in the wild is crucial for building reliable human-computer interactive systems. However, current FER systems fail to perform well under various natural and un-controlled conditions. This report presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Darshan Gera , S Balasubramanian

Attention Mechanism is a widely used method for improving the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on computer vision tasks. Despite its pervasiveness, we have a poor understanding of what its effectiveness stems from. It is…

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Existing multimodal-based human action recognition approaches are computationally intensive, limiting their deployment in real-time applications. In this work, we present a novel and efficient pose-driven attention-guided multimodal network…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the standard for image classification tasks for a long time, but more recently attention-based mechanisms have gained traction. This project aims to compare traditional CNNs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nikhil Kapila , Julian Glattki , Tejas Rathi

This paper presents a classifier ensemble for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) based on models derived from transfer learning. The main experimentation work is conducted for facial action unit detection using feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Yen Khye Lim , Zukang Liao , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

The increased availability and accuracy of eye-gaze tracking technology has sparked attention-related research in psychology, neuroscience, and, more recently, computer vision and artificial intelligence. The attention mechanism in…

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We present a new end-to-end network architecture for facial expression recognition with an attention model. It focuses attention in the human face and uses a Gaussian space representation for expression recognition. We devise this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Pedro D. Marrero Fernandez , Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Tsang Ing Ren , Alexandre Cunha

Speech emotion recognition (SER) classifies human emotions in speech with a computer model. Recently, performance in SER has steadily increased as deep learning techniques have adapted. However, unlike many domains that use speech data,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Byunggun Kim , Younghun Kwon

Facial expression recognition is a pivotal component in machine learning, facilitating various applications. However, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are often plagued by catastrophic forgetting, impeding their adaptability. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Israel A. Laurensi , Alceu de Souza Britto , Jean Paul Barddal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

The human face is a silent communicator, expressing emotions and thoughts through its facial expressions. With the advancements in computer vision in recent years, facial emotion recognition technology has made significant strides, enabling…

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