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The task of emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) benefits from the availability of multiple modalities, as provided, for example, in the video-based Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD). However, only a few research approaches use…

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This paper details the methodology and results of the EmotioNet challenge. This challenge is the first to test the ability of computer vision algorithms in the automatic analysis of a large number of images of facial expressions of emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 C. Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Ramprakash Srinivasan , Qianli Feng , Yan Wang , Aleix M. Martinez

Speech-preserving facial expression manipulation (SPFEM) aims to enhance human expressiveness without altering mouth movements tied to the original speech. A primary challenge in this domain is the scarcity of paired data, namely aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tianshui Chen , Yujie Zhu , Jianman Lin , Zhijing Yang , Chunmei Qing , Feng Gao , Liang Lin

The human face plays a central role in social communication, necessitating the use of performant computer vision tools for human-centered applications. We propose Face-LLaVA, a multimodal large language model for face-centered, in-context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ashutosh Chaubey , Xulang Guan , Mohammad Soleymani

Recently, the recognition task of spontaneous facial micro-expressions has attracted much attention with its various real-world applications. Plenty of handcrafted or learned features have been employed for a variety of classifiers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaopeng Hong , Xingyu Gao , Xiaoyi Feng , Guoying Zhao

Automatic face recognition is a research area with high popularity. Many different face recognition algorithms have been proposed in the last thirty years of intensive research in the field. With the popularity of deep learning and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Tiago de Freitas Pereira , Dominic Schmidli , Yu Linghu , Xinyi Zhang , Sébastien Marcel , Manuel Günther

Micro-expression recognition (MER) draws intensive research interest as micro-expressions (MEs) can infer genuine emotions. Prior information can guide the model to learn discriminative ME features effectively. However, most works focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Haoyu Chen , Guanming Lu , Jingjie Yan , Yue Xie , Guoying Zhao

Automatic emotion recognition has recently gained significant attention due to the growing popularity of deep learning algorithms. One of the primary challenges in emotion recognition is effectively utilizing the various cues (modalities)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mijanur Palash , Bharat Bhargava

We provide a new non-invasive, easy-to-scale for large amounts of subjects and a remotely accessible method for (hidden) emotion detection from videos of human faces. Our approach combines face manifold detection for accurate location of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Juni Kim , Zhikang Dong , Eric Guan , Judah Rosenthal , Shi Fu , Miriam Rafailovich , Pawel Polak

With the rapid development of wearable cameras, a massive collection of egocentric video for first-person visual perception becomes available. Using egocentric videos to predict first-person activity faces many challenges, including limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Linfeng Xu , Qingbo Wu , Lili Pan , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li , Chiyuan He , Hanxin Wang , Shaoxu Cheng , Yu Dai

Facial emotional recognition is one of the essential tools used by recognition psychology to diagnose patients. Face and facial emotional recognition are areas where machine learning is excelling. Facial Emotion Recognition in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Nitesh Banskota , Abeer Alsadoon , P. W. C. Prasad , Ahmed Dawoud , Tarik A. Rashid , Omar Hisham Alsadoon

Emotion recognition plays a vital role in enhancing human-computer interaction. In this study, we tackle the MER-SEMI challenge of the MER2025 competition by proposing a novel multimodal emotion recognition framework. To address the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Juewen Hu , Yexin Li , Jiulin Li , Shuo Chen , Pring Wong

When a person attempts to conceal an emotion, the genuine emotion is manifest as a micro-expression. Exploration of automatic facial micro-expression recognition systems is relatively new in the computer vision domain. This is due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Sze-Teng Liong , Y. S. Gan , Wei-Chuen Yau , Yen-Chang Huang , Tan Lit Ken

In the computer research area, facial expression recognition is a hot research problem. Recent years, the research has moved from the lab environment to in-the-wild circumstances. It is challenging, especially under extreme poses. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Fei Yang , Qian Zhang , Chi Zheng , Guoping Qiu

The field of Automatic Facial Expression Analysis has grown rapidly in recent years. However, despite progress in new approaches as well as benchmarking efforts, most evaluations still focus on either posed expressions, near-frontal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Michel F. Valstar , Enrique Sánchez-Lozano , Jeffrey F. Cohn , László A. Jeni , Jeffrey M. Girard , Zheng Zhang , Lijun Yin , Maja Pantic

Micro-gesture recognition and behavior-based emotion prediction are both highly challenging tasks that require modeling subtle, fine-grained human behaviors, primarily leveraging video and skeletal pose data. In this work, we present two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Arman Martirosyan , Shahane Tigranyan , Maria Razzhivina , Artak Aslanyan , Nazgul Salikhova , Ilya Makarov , Andrey Savchenko , Aram Avetisyan

Facial micro-expressions recognition has attracted much attention recently. Micro-expressions have the characteristics of short duration and low intensity, and it is difficult to train a high-performance classifier with the limited number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yanxin Song , Jianzong Wang , Tianbo Wu , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

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

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a critical task within computer vision with diverse applications across various domains. Addressing the challenge of limited FER datasets, which hampers the generalization capability of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bach Nguyen-Xuan , Thien Nguyen-Hoang , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Nhu Tai-Do

Facial affective behavior analysis (FABA) is crucial for understanding human mental states from images. However, traditional approaches primarily deploy models to discriminate among discrete emotion categories, and lack the fine granularity…

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