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Current state-of-the-art models for automatic FER are based on very deep neural networks that are difficult to train. This makes it challenging to adapt these models to changing conditions, a requirement from FER models given the subjective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Alessandra Sciutti

Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is a key task in affective computing, enabling applications in human-computer interaction, e-learning, healthcare, and safety systems. Despite advances in deep learning, FER remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ahsan Farabi , Israt Khandaker , Ibrahim Khalil Shanto , Md Abdul Ahad Minhaz , Tanisha Zaman

Existing information on AI-based facial emotion recognition (FER) is not easily comprehensible by those outside the field of computer science, requiring cross-disciplinary effort to determine a categorisation framework that promotes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 R. Yamamoto Ravenor

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task, arguably because of large intra-class variations and high inter-class similarities. The core drawback of the existing approaches is the lack of ability to discriminate the changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yanwei Li , Xingang Wang , Shilei Zhang , Lingxi Xie , Wenqi Wu , Hongyuan Yu , Zheng Zhu

Human emotions can be inferred from facial expressions. However, the annotations of facial expressions are often highly noisy in common emotion coding models, including categorical and dimensional ones. To reduce human labelling effort on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Siwei Zhang , Zhiwu Huang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Human emotions involve basic and compound facial expressions. However, current research on facial expression recognition (FER) mainly focuses on basic expressions, and thus fails to address the diversity of human emotions in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xinyi Zou , Yan Yan , Jing-Hao Xue , Si Chen , Hanzi Wang

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a fine-grained problem where the value of transfer learning is often assumed. We first quantify this assumption and show that, on AffectNet, training from random initialization with sufficiently strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mahdi Pourmirzaei , Gholam Ali Montazer , Farzaneh Esmaili

Multimodal emotion analysis performed better in emotion recognition depending on more comprehensive emotional clues and multimodal emotion dataset. In this paper, we developed a large multimodal emotion dataset, named "HED" dataset, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhongyu Fang , Aoyun He , Qihui Yu , Baopeng Gao , Weiping Ding , Tong Zhang , Lei Ma

Over the past few years, deep learning methods have shown remarkable results in many face-related tasks including automatic facial expression recognition (FER) in-the-wild. Meanwhile, numerous models describing the human emotional states…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Panagiotis Antoniadis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Petros Maragos

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sahil Naik , Soham Bagayatkar , Pavankumar Singh

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a subset of computer vision with important applications for human-computer-interaction, healthcare, and customer service. FER represents a challenging problem-space because accurate classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ezra Engel , Lishan Li , Chris Hudy , Robert Schleusner

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

Traditional techniques for emotion recognition have focused on the facial expression analysis only, thus providing limited ability to encode context that comprehensively represents the emotional responses. We present deep networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim , Sunok Kim , Jungin Park , Kwanghoon Sohn

Emotion recognition and understanding is a vital component in human-machine interaction. Dimensional models of affect such as those using valence and arousal have advantages over traditional categorical ones due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Vassilios Vonikakis , Dexter Neo , Stefan Winkler

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to detect the emotional status of a given expression by combining the speech and text information. Intuitively, label information should be capable of helping the model locate the salient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Peiying Wang , Sunlu Zeng , Junqing Chen , Lu Fan , Meng Chen , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

Facial expression recognition (FER) in 3D and 4D domains presents a significant challenge in affective computing due to the complexity of spatial and temporal facial dynamics. Its success is crucial for advancing applications in human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Muzammil Behzad

Facial expression recognition (FER) aims to analyze emotional states from static images and dynamic sequences, which is pivotal in enhancing anthropomorphic communication among humans, robots, and digital avatars by leveraging AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yan Wang , Shaoqi Yan , Yang Liu , Wei Song , Jing Liu , Yang Chang , Xinji Mai , Xiping Hu , Wenqiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is extremely challenging due to occlusions, variant head poses, face deformation and motion blur under unconstrained conditions. Although substantial progresses have been made in automatic FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

We describe a deep learning based method for estimating 3D facial expression coefficients. Unlike previous work, our process does not relay on facial landmark detection methods as a proxy step. Recent methods have shown that a CNN can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Feng-Ju Chang , Anh Tuan Tran , Tal Hassner , Iacopo Masi , Ram Nevatia , Gerard Medioni

Over the centuries, humans have developed and acquired a number of ways to communicate. But hardly any of them can be as natural and instinctive as facial expressions. On the other hand, neural networks have taken the world by storm. And no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Subodh Lonkar