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Facial action unit (AU) detection is a fundamental block for objective facial expression analysis. Supervised learning approaches require a large amount of manual labeling which is costly. The limited labeled data are also not diverse in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liupei Lu , Yufeng Yin , Yuming Gu , Yizhen Wu , Pratusha Prasad , Yajie Zhao , Mohammad Soleymani

With rapid advancements in generative modeling, deepfake techniques are increasingly narrowing the gap between real and synthetic videos, raising serious privacy and security concerns. Beyond traditional face swapping and reenactment, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tharun Anand , Siva Sankar Sajeev , Pravin Nair

Facial action unit (FAU) intensities are popular descriptors for the analysis of facial behavior. However, FAUs are sparsely represented when only a few are activated at a time. In this study, we explore the possibility of representing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Minh Tran , Ellen Bradley , Michelle Matvey , Joshua Woolley , Mohammad Soleymani

Privacy protection has become a top priority as the proliferation of AI techniques has led to widespread collection and misuse of personal data. Anonymization and visual identity information hiding are two important facial privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

DeepFake technology has advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the creation of highly realistic synthetic face images. Existing DeepFake detection methods often struggle with pose variations, occlusions, and artifacts that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Sami Belguesmia , Mohand Saïd Allili , Assia Hamadene

Previous approaches to model and analyze facial expression analysis use three different techniques: facial action units, geometric features and graph based modelling. However, previous approaches have treated these technique separately.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Mehdi Ghayoumi , Arvind K Bansal

Previous methods have dealt with discrete manipulation of facial attributes such as smile, sad, angry, surprise etc, out of canonical expressions and they are not scalable, operating in single modality. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Jiali Duan , Xiaoyuan Guo , Yuhang Song , Chao Yang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Recent advances in facial expression synthesis have shown promising results using diverse expression representations including facial action units. Facial action units for an elaborate facial expression synthesis need to be intuitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Joanna Hong , Jung Uk Kim , Sangmin Lee , Yong Man Ro

The growing use of portrait images in computer vision highlights the need to protect personal identities. At the same time, anonymized images must remain useful for downstream computer vision tasks. In this work, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Guoying Zhao

Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive results in the field of automated facial expression editing. However, the approaches presented so far presume a discrete representation of human emotions and are therefore limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Alexandra Lindt , Pablo Barros , Henrique Siqueira , Stefan Wermter

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection is a crucial task for emotion analysis from facial movements. The apparent differences of different subjects sometimes mislead changes brought by AUs, resulting in inaccurate results. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiyuan Cao , Zhilei Liu , Yong Zhang

In the field of human-centric personalized image generation, the adapter-based method obtains the ability to customize and generate portraits by text-to-image training on facial data. This allows for identity-preserved personalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Cheng Yu , Haoyu Xie , Lei Shang , Yang Liu , Jun Dan , Liefeng Bo , Baigui Sun

Recent diffusion-based image editing approaches have exhibited impressive editing capabilities in images with simple compositions. However, localized editing in complex scenarios has not been well-studied in the literature, despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Qi Mao , Lan Chen , Yuchao Gu , Zhen Fang , Mike Zheng Shou

Text-to-image (T2I) models have significantly advanced the development of artificial intelligence, enabling the generation of high-quality images in diverse contexts based on specific text prompts. However, existing T2I-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Salaheldin Mohamed , Dong Han , Yong Li

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and adversarial detection (FAD) have been regarded as critical technologies to ensure the safety of face recognition systems. However, due to limited practicality, complex deployment, and the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jiawei Chen , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Zhaoxia Yin

With the rapid development of generation model, AI-based face manipulation technology, which called DeepFakes, has become more and more realistic. This means of face forgery can attack any target, which poses a new threat to personal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuyang Sun , Zhiyong Zhang , Changzhen Qiu , Liang Wang , Zekai Wang

Face manipulation has shown remarkable advances with the flourish of Generative Adversarial Networks. However, due to the difficulties of controlling structures and textures, it is challenging to model poses and expressions simultaneously,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Chaoyou Fu , Yibo Hu , Xiang Wu , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Ran He

Facial action unit detection has emerged as an important task within facial expression analysis, aimed at detecting specific pre-defined, objective facial expressions, such as lip tightening and cheek raising. This paper presents our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yufeng Yin , Minh Tran , Di Chang , Xinrui Wang , Mohammad Soleymani

Face animation has achieved much progress in computer vision. However, prevailing GAN-based methods suffer from unnatural distortions and artifacts due to sophisticated motion deformation. In this paper, we propose a Face Animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Bohan Zeng , Xuhui Liu , Sicheng Gao , Boyu Liu , Hong Li , Jianzhuang Liu , Baochang Zhang

Action Unit (AU) Detection is the branch of affective computing that aims at recognizing unitary facial muscular movements. It is key to unlock unbiased computational face representations and has therefore aroused great interest in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Gauthier Tallec , Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly