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We propose a novel convolutional neural network approach to address the fine-grained recognition problem of multi-view dynamic facial action unit detection. We leverage recent gains in large-scale object recognition by formulating the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Andres Romero , Juan Leon , Pablo Arbelaez

Facial action unit (AU) detection remains challenging because it involves heterogeneous, AU-specific uncertainties arising at both the representation and decision stages. Recent methods have improved discriminative feature learning, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuze Li , Zhilei Liu

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) encodes the action units (AUs) in facial images, which has attracted extensive research attention due to its wide use in facial expression analysis. Many methods that perform well on automatic facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xuri Ge , Joemon M. Jose , Songpei Xu , Xiao Liu , Hu Han

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the six basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2022. In Learing from Synthetic Data(LSD) task, facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Shuyi Mao , Xinpeng Li , Junyao Chen , Xiaojiang Peng

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection seeks to recognize subtle facial muscle activations as defined by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). A primary challenge w.r.t AU detection is the effective learning of discriminative and generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Yizhe Zhang , Wenhua Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Muyun Jiang , Guo-Sen Xie , Cuntai Guan

Facial Action Coding System is an approach for modeling the complexity of human emotional expression. Automatic action unit (AU) detection is a crucial research area in human-computer interaction. This paper describes our submission to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Duy Le Hoai , Eunchae Lim , Eunbin Choi , Sieun Kim , Sudarshan Pant , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

Extensive efforts have been devoted to recognizing facial action units (AUs). However, it is still challenging to recognize AUs from spontaneous facial displays especially when they are accompanied with speech. Different from all prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Zibo Meng , Shizhong Han , Yan Tong

Face detection has witnessed significant progress due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Its central issue in recent years is how to improve the detection performance of tiny faces. To this end, many recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Faen Zhang , Xinyu Fan , Guo Ai , Jianfei Song , Yongqiang Qin , Jiahong Wu

Most state-of-the-art approaches for Facial Action Unit (AU) detection rely upon evaluating facial expressions from static frames, encoding a snapshot of heightened facial activity. In real-world interactions, however, facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Nikhil Churamani , Sinan Kalkan , Hatice Gunes

Although state-of-the-art classifiers for facial expression recognition (FER) can achieve a high level of accuracy, they lack interpretability, an important feature for end-users. Experts typically associate spatial action units (AUs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Soufiane Belharbi , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

This paper introduces our approach to the EmotioNet Challenge 2020. We pose the AU recognition problem as a multi-task learning problem, where the non-rigid facial muscle motion (mainly the first 17 AUs) and the rigid head motion (the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Pengcheng Wang , Zihao Wang , Zhilong Ji , Xiao Liu , Songfan Yang , Zhongqin Wu

Affective Behavior Analysis aims to develop emotionally intelligent technology that can recognize and respond to human emotions. To advance this field, the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition holds the Multi-Task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chen Liu , Wei Zhang , Feng Qiu , Lincheng Li , Xin Yu

Despite the revolutionary impact of AI and the development of locally trained algorithms, achieving widespread generalized learning from multi-modal data in medical AI remains a significant challenge. This gap hinders the practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Fatema-E Jannat , Sina Gholami , Minhaj Nur Alam , Hamed Tabkhi

The automatic intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) from a single image plays a vital role in facial analysis systems. One big challenge for data-driven AU intensity estimation is the lack of sufficient AU label data. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Xinhui Song , Tianyang Shi , Tianjia Shao , Yi Yuan , Zunlei Feng , Changjie Fan

The remarkable progress in deep learning (DL) showcases outstanding results in various computer vision tasks. However, adaptation to real-time variations in data distributions remains an important challenge. Test-Time Training (TTT) was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Marco Colussi , Sergio Mascetti , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

Biomedical image segmentation is crucial for accurately diagnosing and analyzing various diseases. However, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers, the most commonly used architectures for this task, struggle to effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Yanfang Ye , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Deep learning models have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of computer vision tasks. However, their performance often degrades significantly when faced with distribution shifts, such as domain or dataset changes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Samuel Barbeau , Pedram Fekri , David Osowiechi , Ali Bahri , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Christian Desrosiers

Multimodal foundation models have significantly improved feature representation by integrating information from multiple modalities, making them highly suitable for a broader set of applications. However, the exploration of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kaiwen Zheng , Xuri Ge , Junchen Fu , Jun Peng , Joemon M. Jose

Recognizing human emotion/expressions automatically is quite an expected ability for intelligent robotics, as it can promote better communication and cooperation with humans. Current deep-learning-based algorithms may achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tao Pu , Tianshui Chen , Yuan Xie , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) has been used by numerous studies to investigate the links between facial behavior and mental health. The laborious and costly process of FACS coding has motivated the development of machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Evangelos Sariyanidi , Lisa Yankowitz , Robert T. Schultz , John D. Herrington , Birkan Tunc , Jeffrey Cohn