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Automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has gained much attention due to its applications in human-computer interaction. Among the approaches to improve FER tasks, this paper focuses on deep architecture with the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Luan Pham , The Huynh Vu , Tuan Anh Tran

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) is crucial for understanding human behavior. However, current methods exhibit limited performance mainly due to the scarcity of high-quality data, the insufficient utilization of facial dynamics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Haodong Chen , Haojian Huang , Junhao Dong , Mingzhe Zheng , Dian Shao

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

Previous methods for dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) in the wild are mainly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), whose local operations ignore the long-range dependencies in videos. Transformer-based methods for DFER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

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

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

This study introduces LRDif, a novel diffusion-based framework designed specifically for facial expression recognition (FER) within the context of under-display cameras (UDC). To address the inherent challenges posed by UDC's image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

Emotions play a central role in the social life of every human being, and their study, which represents a multidisciplinary subject, embraces a great variety of research fields. Especially concerning the latter, the analysis of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Self-supervised representation learning has gained increasing attention for strong generalization ability without relying on paired datasets. However, it has not been explored sufficiently for facial representation. Self-supervised facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ruian He , Zhen Xing , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

Deep learning has shown remarkable performance in medical image segmentation. However, despite its promise, deep learning has many challenges in practice due to its inability to effectively transition to unseen domains, caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Dewei Hu , Hao Li , Han Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Xing Yao , Daiwei Lu , Ipek Oguz

In this paper, we present SAFER, a novel system for emotion recognition from facial expressions. It employs state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to extract various features from facial images and incorporates contextual information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Mijanur Palash , Bharat Bhargava

2D+3D facial expression recognition (FER) can effectively cope with illumination changes and pose variations by simultaneously merging 2D texture and more robust 3D depth information. Most deep learning-based approaches employ the simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mingzhe Sui , Hanting Li , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

Facial expression recognition (FER) in the wild remains a challenging task due to the subtle and localized nature of expression-related features, as well as the complex variations in facial appearance. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Liqian Deng

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

With the increasing deployment of facial image data across a wide range of applications, efficient compression tailored to facial semantics has become critical for both storage and transmission. While recent learning-based face image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yimin Zhou , Yichong Xia , Bin Chen , Mingyao Hong , Jiawei Li , Zhi Wang , Yaowei Wang

While significant progress has been achieved in multimodal facial generation using semantic masks and textual descriptions, conventional feature fusion approaches often fail to enable effective cross-modal interactions, thereby leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yushe Cao , Dianxi Shi , Xing Fu , Xuechao Zou , Haikuo Peng , Xueqi Li , Chun Yu , Junliang Xing

In this paper, we present a sparsity-aware deep network for automatic 4D facial expression recognition (FER). Given 4D data, we first propose a novel augmentation method to combat the data limitation problem for deep learning. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Muzammil Behzad , Nhat Vo , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Given the similarity between facial expression categories, the presence of compound facial expressions, and the subjectivity of annotators, facial expression recognition (FER) datasets often suffer from ambiguity and noisy labels. Ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ziyang Zhang , Xiao Sun , Liuwei An , Meng Wang

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

Despite significant progress over the past few years, ambiguity is still a key challenge in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). It can lead to noisy and inconsistent annotation, which hinders the performance of deep learning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Quang Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen