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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

The intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) is challenging due to subtle changes in the person's facial appearance. Previous approaches mainly rely on probabilistic models or predefined rules for modeling co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. 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

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) for studying facial expressions is manual and requires significant effort and expertise. This paper explores the use of automated techniques to generate Action Units (AUs) for studying facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Shivansh Chandra Tripathi , Rahul Garg

Reliable facial expression learning (FEL) involves the effective learning of distinctive facial expression characteristics for more reliable, unbiased and accurate predictions in real-life settings. However, current systems struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Taki Hasan Rafi , Raima Islam , Karlo Serbetar , Dong Kyu Chae

Facial Expression Analysis remains a challenging task due to unexpected task-irrelevant noise, such as identity, head pose, and background. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel framework, called Norface, that is unified for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hanwei Liu , Rudong An , Zhimeng Zhang , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Yan Song , Yujing Hu , Wei Chen , Yu Ding

Deformable medical image registration is a crucial aspect of medical image analysis. In recent years, researchers have begun leveraging auxiliary tasks (such as supervised segmentation) to provide anatomical structure information for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hongchao Zhou , Shunbo Hu

The paper explores the topic of Facial Action Unit (FAU) detection in the wild. In particular, we are interested in answering the following questions: (1) how useful are residual connections across dense blocks for face analysis? (2) how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Shreyank Jyoti , Abhinav Dhall

Facial action unit (AU) detection is a fundamental block for objective facial expression analysis. Supervised learning approaches require a large amount of manual labeling which is costly. The limited labeled data are also not diverse in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liupei Lu , Yufeng Yin , Yuming Gu , Yizhen Wu , Pratusha Prasad , Yajie Zhao , Mohammad Soleymani

Customizable 3D avatar-based facial expression stimuli may improve user engagement in behavioral biomarker discovery and therapeutic intervention for autism, Alzheimer's disease, facial palsy, and more. However, there is a lack of…

Machine learning systems are being used to automate many types of laborious labeling tasks. Facial actioncoding is an example of such a labeling task that requires copious amounts of time and a beyond average level of human domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Alberto Fung , Daniel McDuff

Facial expression is one of the most powerful, natural, and universal signals for human beings to express emotional states and intentions. Thus, it is evident the importance of correct and innovative facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shuchao Deng , Yanan Sun , Edgar Galvan

Automatically understanding emotions from visual data is a fundamental task for human behaviour understanding. While models devised for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) have demonstrated excellent performances on many datasets, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Automatic affect recognition has applications in many areas such as education, gaming, software development, automotives, medical care, etc. but it is non trivial task to achieve appreciable performance on in-the-wild data sets. In-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Darshan Gera , Badveeti Naveen Siva Kumar , Bobbili Veerendra Raj Kumar , S Balasubramanian

Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks, since facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meaningful local features for AU detection. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Zhiwen Shao , Zhilei Liu , Jianfei Cai , Lizhuang Ma

Facial expression recognition (FER) is still one challenging research due to the small inter-class discrepancy in the facial expression data. In view of the significance of facial crucial regions for FER, many existing researches utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Guanghui Shi , Shasha Mao , Shuiping Gou , Dandan Yan , Licheng Jiao , Lin Xiong

The lack of large-scale, demographically diverse face images with precise Action Unit (AU) occurrence and intensity annotations has long been recognized as a fundamental bottleneck in developing generalizable AU recognition systems. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiangdong Li , Ye Lou , Ao Gao , Wei Zhang , Siyang Song

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) extends traditional facial emotion recognition by incorporating explainable, fine-grained reasoning. The task integrates three subtasks: emotion recognition, facial Action Unit (AU) recognition, and AU-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jiulong Wu , Yucheng Shen , Lingyong Yan , Haixin Sun , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang , Min Cao

The rapid advancement in deep learning over the past decade has transformed Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems, as newer methods have been proposed that outperform the existing traditional handcrafted techniques. However, such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Syed Sameen Ahmad Rizvi , Preyansh Agrawal , Jagat Sesh Challa , Pratik Narang

Diversity of the features extracted by deep neural networks is important for enhancing the model generalization ability and accordingly its performance in different learning tasks. Facial expression recognition in the wild has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Negar Heidari , Alexandros Iosifidis