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Facial Expression Recognition(FER) is one of the most important topic in Human-Computer interactions(HCI). In this work we report details and experimental results about a facial expression recognition method based on state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Donato Cafarelli , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

Facial Action Units (AUs) detection is a cornerstone of objective facial expression analysis and a critical focus in affective computing. Despite its importance, AU detection faces significant challenges, such as the high cost of AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Bohao Xing , Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Heikki Kälviäinen

Facial action units (AUs) play an indispensable role in human emotion analysis. We observe that although AU-based high-level emotion analysis is urgently needed by real-world applications, frame-level AU results provided by previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Yingjie Chen , Jiarui Zhang , Tao Wang , Yun Liang

Facial Action Units (AUs) are essential for conveying psychological states and emotional expressions. While automatic AU detection systems leveraging deep learning have progressed, they often overfit to specific datasets and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yong Li , Yi Ren , Xuesong Niu , Yi Ding , Xiu-Shen Wei , Cuntai Guan

Action Unit (AU) detection becomes essential for facial analysis. Many proposed approaches face challenging problems in dealing with the alignments of different face regions, in the effective fusion of temporal information, and in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Wei Li , Farnaz Abitahi , Zhigang Zhu

Recently, deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) methods have attracted considerable attention and they usually require large-scale labelled training data. Nonetheless, the publicly available facial expression databases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yan Yan , Ying Huang , Si Chen , Chunhua Shen , Hanzi Wang

Facial action unit (AU) intensity plays a pivotal role in quantifying fine-grained expression behaviors, which is an effective condition for facial expression manipulation. However, publicly available datasets containing intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Shiwei Jin , Zhen Wang , Lei Wang , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

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

Current Facial Action Unit (FAU) detection methods generally encounter difficulties due to the scarcity of labeled video training data and the limited number of training face IDs, which renders the trained feature extractor insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Qiaoqiao Jin , Rui Shi , Yishun Dou , Bingbing Ni

Understanding human affective behaviour, especially in the dynamics of real-world settings, requires Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models to continuously adapt to individual differences in user expression, contextual attributions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Nikhil Churamani , Tolga Dimlioglu , German I. Parisi , Hatice Gunes

This paper tackles the challenging problem of estimating the intensity of Facial Action Units with few labeled images. Contrary to previous works, our method does not require to manually select key frames, and produces state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Anestis Zaganidis , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Detecting action units (AUs) on human faces is challenging because various AUs make subtle facial appearance change over various regions at different scales. Current works have attempted to recognize AUs by emphasizing important regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Junhai Yong

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an active research domain that has shown great progress recently, notably thanks to the use of large deep learning models. However, such approaches are particularly energy intensive, which makes their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Sami Barchid , Benjamin Allaert , Amel Aissaoui , José Mennesson , Chaabane Djéraba

Facial action unit recognition is an important task for facial analysis. Owing to the complex collection environment, facial action unit recognition in the wild is still challenging. The 3rd competition on affective behavior analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Jiahe Wang

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection is a crucial task in affective computing and social robotics as it helps to identify emotions expressed through facial expressions. Anatomically, there are innumerable correlations between AUs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Xin Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Xuesong Niu , Jingang Shi , Zitong Yu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Cross-database micro-expression recognition (CDMER) is one of recently emerging and interesting problem in micro-expression analysis. CDMER is more challenging than the conventional micro-expression recognition (MER), because the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yuan Zong , Tong Zhang , Wenming Zheng , Xiaopeng Hong , Chuangao Tang , Zhen Cui , Guoying Zhao

Nearly all existing Facial Action Coding System-based datasets that include facial action unit (AU) intensity information annotate the intensity values hierarchically using A--E levels. However, facial expressions change continuously and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wei Gan , Jian Xue , Ke Lu , Yanfu Yan , Pengcheng Gao , Jiayi Lyu

Facial action units allow an objective, standardized description of facial micro movements which can be used to describe emotions in human faces. Annotating data for action units is an expensive and time-consuming task, which leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Jaspar Pahl , Ines Rieger , Dominik Seuss

Human activity recognition requires the efforts to build a generalizable model using the training datasets with the hope to achieve good performance in test datasets. However, in real applications, the training and testing datasets may have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Wang Lu , Xinlong Jiang

This paper proposes a feature-based domain adaptation technique for identifying emotions in generic images, encompassing both facial and non-facial objects, as well as non-human components. This approach addresses the challenge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Puneet Kumar , Balasubramanian Raman