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Patient pain can be detected highly reliably from facial expressions using a set of facial muscle-based action units (AUs) defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A key characteristic of facial expression of pain is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana J. Wilkie

Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to label ambiguity caused by the subjective nature of facial expressions and noisy samples. Additionally, class imbalance, which is common in real-world datasets, further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 JunGyu Lee , Yeji Choi , Haksub Kim , Ig-Jae Kim , Gi Pyo Nam

The tremendous development in deep learning has led facial expression recognition (FER) to receive much attention in the past few years. Although 3D FER has an inherent edge over its 2D counterpart, work on 2D images has dominated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Faizan Farooq Khan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani

Facial action units (AUs) recognition is essential for emotion analysis and has been widely applied in mental state analysis. Existing work on AU recognition usually requires big face dataset with AU labels; however, manual AU annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Data augmentation is an essential technique for improving recognition accuracy in object recognition using deep learning. Methods that generate mixed data from multiple data sets, such as mixup, can acquire new diversity that is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Shungo Fujii , Yasunori Ishii , Kazuki Kozuka , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Compound Expression Recognition (CER), a subfield of affective computing, aims to detect complex emotional states formed by combinations of basic emotions. In this work, we present a novel zero-shot multimodal approach for CER that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Elena Ryumina , Maxim Markitantov , Alexandr Axyonov , Dmitry Ryumin , Mikhail Dolgushin , Alexey Karpov

The face expression is the first thing we pay attention to when we want to understand a person's state of mind. Thus, the ability to recognize facial expressions in an automatic way is a very interesting research field. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrico Randellini , Leonardo Rigutini , Claudio Sacca'

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…

Augmenting data in image space (eg. flipping, cropping etc) and activation space (eg. dropout) are being widely used to regularise deep neural networks and have been successfully applied on several computer vision tasks. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Binod Bhattarai , Rumeysa Bodur , Tae-Kyun Kim

Deception detection is of great significance for ensuring information security and conducting public opinion analysis, with personality factors and emotion cues playing a critical role. However, existing methods lack sample-level dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Li Zheng , Yanyi Luo , Hao Fei , Yuzhe Ding , Yujie Huang , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

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

Learning a classifier from ambiguously labeled face images is challenging since training images are not always explicitly-labeled. For instance, face images of two persons in a news photo are not explicitly labeled by their names in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Ching-Hui Chen , Vishal M. Patel , Rama Chellappa

With the rapid development of deep generative models, forged facial images are massively exploited for illegal activities. Although existing synthetic face detection methods have achieved significant progress, they suffer from the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Qingchao Jiang , Zhenxuan Hou , Zhiying Zhu , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang , Zaiwang Gu

As Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems become integrated into our daily lives, these systems need to prioritise making fair decisions instead of aiming at higher individual accuracy scores. Ranging from surveillance systems to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Nikhil Churamani , Ozgur Kara , Hatice Gunes

Facial expression recognition (FER) is an essential task for understanding human behaviors. As one of the most informative behaviors of humans, facial expressions are often compound and variable, which is manifested by the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) faces significant challenges due to long-tailed category distributions and complexity of spatio-temporal feature modeling. While existing deep learning-based methods have improved DFER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Feng-Qi Cui , Zhen Lin , Xinlong Rao , Anyang Tong , Shiyao Li , Fei Wang , Changlin Chen , Bin Liu

Automated deception detection systems can enhance health, justice, and security in society by helping humans detect deceivers in high-stakes situations across medical and legal domains, among others. This paper presents a novel analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Leena Mathur , Maja J Matarić

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent agents and systems. However, key challenges remain in utilizing FER in real-world contexts, including ensuring user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sanjeev Nahulanthran , Leimin Tian , Dana Kulić , Mor Vered

Facial expression recognition has been an active research area over the past few decades, and it is still challenging due to the high intra-class variation. Traditional approaches for this problem rely on hand-crafted features such as SIFT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

Traditional sentiment analysis has long been a unimodal task, relying solely on text. This approach overlooks non-verbal cues such as vocal tone and prosody that are essential for capturing true emotional intent. We introduce Dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sadia Abdulhalim , Muaz Albaghdadi , Moshiur Farazi