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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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn data patterns to express face images for facial expression recognition (FER). However, they may ignore effect of facial segmentation of FER. In this paper, we propose a perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunwei Tian , Jingyuan Xie , Lingjun Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanning Zhang , David Zhang

Facial Action Coding System is an important approach of facial expression analysis.This paper describes our submission to the third Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2022 competition. We proposed a transfomer based model to detect facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lingfeng Wang , Shisen Wang , Jin Qi

The performance of a computer vision model depends on the size and quality of its training data. Recent studies have unveiled previously-unknown composition biases in common image datasets which then lead to skewed model outputs, and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Yunliang Chen , Jungseock Joo

Facial expressions are combinations of basic components called Action Units (AU). Recognizing AUs is key for developing general facial expression analysis. In recent years, most efforts in automatic AU recognition have been dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ciprian A. Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

Despite their continued popularity, categorical approaches to affect recognition have limitations, especially in real-life situations. Dimensional models of affect offer important advantages for the recognition of subtle expressions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Vassilios Vonikakis , Stefan Winkler

Much of the work on automatic facial expression recognition relies on databases containing a certain number of emotion classes and their exaggerated facial configurations (generally six prototypical facial expressions), based on Ekman's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Wenjing Yan , Shan Li , Chengtao Que , JiQuan Pei , Weihong Deng

The facial expression recognition is an ocular task that can be performed without human discomfort, is really a speedily growing on the computer research field. There are many applications and programs uses facial expression to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Abdelmajid Hassan Mansour , Gafar Zen Alabdeen Salh , Ali Shaif Alhalemi

This comprehensive review delves deeply into the various methodologies applied to facial expression recognition (FER) through the lens of graph representation learning (GRL). Initially, we introduce the task of FER and the concepts of graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Théo Gueuret , Akrem Sellami , Chaabane Djeraba

Humans modify their facial expressions in order to communicate their internal states and sometimes to mislead observers regarding their true emotional states. Evidence in experimental psychology shows that discriminative facial responses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Kaustubh Kulkarni , Ciprian Adrian Corneanu , Ikechukwu Ofodile , Sergio Escalera , Xavier Baro , Sylwia Hyniewska , Juri Allik , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

Recently, facial expression recognition (FER) in the wild has gained a lot of researchers' attention because it is a valuable topic to enable the FER techniques to move from the laboratory to the real applications. In this paper, we focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Xingxun Jiang , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng , Chuangao Tang , Wanchuang Xia , Cheng Lu , Jiateng Liu

Emotions are best way of communicating information; and sometimes it carry more information than words. Recently, there has been a huge interest in automatic recognition of human emotion because of its wide spread application in security,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-05 Nikunj Bajaj , Aurobinda Routray , S L Happy

EXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches are widely applied for identifying fairness issues in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. However, in the context of facial analysis, existing XAI approaches, such as pixel attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

Humans are emotional creatures. Multiple modalities are often involved when we express emotions, whether we do so explicitly (e.g., facial expression, speech) or implicitly (e.g., text, image). Enabling machines to have emotional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Sicheng Zhao , Guoli Jia , Jufeng Yang , Guiguang Ding , Kurt Keutzer

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has been a challenging task for decades. Many of the existing works use hand-crafted features such as LBP, HOG, LPQ, and Histogram of Optical Flow (HOF) combined with classifiers such as Support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

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

Recently, online learning is very popular, especially under the global epidemic of COVID-19. Besides knowledge distribution, emotion interaction is also very important. It can be obtained by employing Facial Expression Recognition (FER).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Lei Zhang

Detecting facial action units (AU) is one of the fundamental steps in automatic recognition of facial expression of emotions and cognitive states. Though there have been a variety of approaches proposed for this task, most of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihee Lee , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Maja Pantic

The ability to recognize facial expressions automatically enables novel applications in human-computer interaction and other areas. Consequently, there has been active research in this field, with several recent works utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Christopher Pramerdorfer , Martin Kampel

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has consistently been a focal point in the field of facial analysis. In the context of existing methodologies for 3D FER or 2D+3D FER, the extraction of expression features often gets entangled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Hebeizi Li , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang