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Automatically recognizing emotional intent using facial expression has been a thoroughly investigated topic in the realm of computer vision. Facial Expression Recognition (FER), being a supervised learning task, relies heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Aryan Seth , Pratik Narang

In this paper, a deep learning framework is proposed for automatic facial emotion based on deep convolutional networks. In order to increase the generalization ability and the robustness of the method, the dataset size is increased by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Serap Kırbız

Existing facial expression recognition (FER) methods typically fine-tune a pre-trained visual encoder using discrete labels. However, this form of supervision limits to specify the emotional concept of different facial expressions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hangyu Li , Yihan Xu , Jiangchao Yao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han

Facial Expression Recognition(FER) is one of the most important topic in Human-Computer interactions(HCI). In this work we report details and experimental results about a facial expression recognition method based on state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Donato Cafarelli , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

Recent studies on fairness have shown that Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models exhibit biases toward certain visually perceived demographic groups. However, the limited availability of human-annotated demographic labels in public FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Tangzheng Lian , Oya Celiktutan

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an important task in computer vision and has wide applications in human-computer interaction, intelligent security, emotion analysis, and other fields. However, the limited size of FER datasets limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Zhongpeng Cai , Renda Li , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

In many domains, including online education, healthcare, security, and human-computer interaction, facial emotion recognition (FER) is essential. Real-world FER is still difficult despite its significance because of some factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Deeptimaan Banerjee , Prateek Gothwal , Ashis Kumer Biswas

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…

Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to the ambiguity of expressions. The derived noisy labels significantly harm the performance in real-world scenarios. To address this issue, we present a new FER model named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is an important task in the field of computer vision. To apply automatic DFER in practice, it is necessary to accurately recognize ambiguous facial expressions, which often appear in data in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

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

Facial Emotion Recognition is a critical research area within Affective Computing due to its wide-ranging applications in Human Computer Interaction, mental health assessment and fatigue monitoring. Current FER methods predominantly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Rayón Ropero , Jasper De Laet , Filip Lemic , Pau Sabater Nácher , Nabeel Nisar Bhat , Sergi Abadal , Jeroen Famaey , Eduard Alarcón , Xavier Costa-Pérez

Current state-of-the-art models for automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) are based on very deep neural networks that are effective but rather expensive to train. Given the dynamic conditions of FER, this characteristic hinders such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Alessandra Sciutti

Emotion classifiers traditionally predict discrete emotions. However, emotion expressions are often subjective, thus requiring a method to handle subjective labels. We explore the use of crowdsourcing to acquire reliable soft-target labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Peter Washington , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Emilie Leblanc , Aaron Kline , Cathy Hou , Brianna Chrisman , Nate Stockham , Kelley Paskov , Catalin Voss , Nick Haber , Dennis Wall

Facial expression data is characterized by a significant imbalance, with most collected data showing happy or neutral expressions and fewer instances of fear or disgust. This imbalance poses challenges to facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuhang Zhang , Yaqi Li , Lixiong Qin , Xuannan Liu , Weihong Deng

The importance of automated Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) grows the more common human-machine interactions become, which will only continue to increase dramatically with time. A common method to describe human sentiment or feeling is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Carl Norman

Facial expression plays an important role in understanding human emotions. Most recently, deep learning based methods have shown promising for facial expression recognition. However, the performance of the current state-of-the-art facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Ping Liu , Yunchao Wei , Zibo Meng , Weihong Deng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yi Yang

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of analyzing and identifying human emotions from sensing data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because visual channel conveys rich emotional cues. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kejun Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Chang Tang , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen

Emotion being a subjective thing, leveraging knowledge and science behind labeled data and extracting the components that constitute it, has been a challenging problem in the industry for many years. With the evolution of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Prudhvi Raj Dachapally

Effective human-AI interaction relies on AI's ability to accurately perceive and interpret human emotions. Current benchmarks for vision and vision-language models are severely limited, offering a narrow emotional spectrum that overlooks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Christoph Schuhmann , Robert Kaczmarczyk , Gollam Rabby , Felix Friedrich , Maurice Kraus , Krishna Kalyan , Kourosh Nadi , Huu Nguyen , Kristian Kersting , Sören Auer