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Micro-expression recognition (MER) is valuable because micro-expressions (MEs) can reveal genuine emotions. Most works take image sequences as input and cannot effectively explore ME information because subtle ME-related motions are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Wei Peng , Guanming Lu , Yante Li , Jingjie Yan , Guoying Zhao

Facial Micro-expression Recognition (MER) distinguishes the underlying emotional states of spontaneous subtle facialexpressions. Automatic MER is challenging because that 1) the intensity of subtle facial muscle movement is extremely lowand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Peng , Xiaopeng Hong , Yingyue Xu , Guoying Zhao

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging task due to pervasive occlusion and dataset biases. Especially when facial information is partially occluded, existing FER models struggle to extract effective facial features, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Huiyu Zhai , Xingxing Yang , Yalan Ye , Chenyang Li , Bin Fan , Changze Li

Personalized facial expression recognition (FER) involves adapting a machine learning model using samples from labeled sources and unlabeled target domains. Given the challenges of recognizing subtle expressions with considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Muhammad Osama Zeeshan , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Eric Granger

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary facial movements revealing people's hidden feelings in high-stake situations and have practical importance in medical treatment, national security, interrogations and many human-computer interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yante Li , Jinsheng Wei , Yang Liu , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

The recent availability of low-power neural accelerator hardware, combined with improvements in end-to-end neural facial recognition algorithms provides, enabling technology for on-device facial authentication. The present research work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-10 Viktor Varkarakis , Wang Yao , Peter Corcoran

Salient Object Detection (SOD) plays a crucial role in many computer vision applications, requiring accurate localization and precise boundary delineation of salient regions. In this work, we present a novel framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhinav Sagar

Facial action unit (AU) detection is challenging due to the difficulty in capturing correlated information from subtle and dynamic AUs. Existing methods often resort to the localization of correlated regions of AUs, in which predefining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhiwen Shao , Yong Zhou , Jianfei Cai , Hancheng Zhu , Rui Yao

Generative models for Image Super-Resolution (SR) are increasingly powerful, yet their reliance on self-attention's quadratic complexity (O(N^2)) creates a major computational bottleneck. Linear Attention offers an O(N) solution, but its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaohui Li , Shaobin Zhuang , Shuo Cao , Yang Yang , Yuandong Pu , Qi Qin , Siqi Luo , Bin Fu , Yihao Liu

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is a highly challenging task in affective computing. With the reduced-sized micro-expression (ME) input that contains key information based on key-frame indexes, key-frame-based methods have significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zheyuan Zhang , Weihao Tang , Hong Chen

We address the challenge of Small Object Image Retrieval (SoIR), where the goal is to retrieve images containing a specific small object, in a cluttered scene. The key challenge in this setting is constructing a single image descriptor, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Michael Green , Matan Levy , Issar Tzachor , Dvir Samuel , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

Transformers have become prevalent in computer vision due to their performance and flexibility in modelling complex operations. Of particular significance is the 'cross-attention' operation, which allows a vector representation (e.g. of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Ali Athar , Jonathon Luiten , Alexander Hermans , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

Pre-trained vision language models have shown remarkable performance on visual recognition tasks, but they typically assume the availability of complete multimodal inputs during both training and inference. In real-world scenarios, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shu Zhao , Nilesh Ahuja , Tan Yu , Tianyi Shen , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Event cameras action recognition (EAR) offers compelling privacy-protecting and efficiency advantages, where temporal motion dynamics is of great importance. Existing spatiotemporal multi-view representation learning (SMVRL) methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Rui Fan , Weidong Hao

Micro-expression has emerged as a promising modality in affective computing due to its high objectivity in emotion detection. Despite the higher recognition accuracy provided by the deep learning models, there are still significant scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal genuine emotions, typically lasting less than half a second. Recognizing these subtle expressions is critical for applications in psychology, security, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Occlusion and pose variations, which can change facial appearance significantly, are two major obstacles for automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER). Though automatic FER has made substantial progresses in the past few decades,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Kai Wang , Xiaojiang Peng , Jianfei Yang , Debin Meng , Yu Qiao

Facial expression recognition (FER) is an important research topic in emotional artificial intelligence. In recent decades, researchers have made remarkable progress. However, current FER paradigms face challenges in generalization, lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Bohao Xing , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Qilang Ye , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang , Heikki Kälviäinen

Micro-expression recognition (\textbf{MER}) has attracted lots of researchers' attention in a decade. However, occlusion will occur for MER in real-world scenarios. This paper deeply investigates an interesting but unexplored challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Qirong Mao , Ling Zhou , Wenming Zheng , Xiuyan Shao , Xiaohua Huang

Micro-expressions (MEs) are subtle, transient facial changes with very low intensity, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, yet they reveal a person genuine emotion. They are of great value in lie detection, behavioral analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo