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Facial expression recognition (FER) is a subset of computer vision with important applications for human-computer-interaction, healthcare, and customer service. FER represents a challenging problem-space because accurate classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ezra Engel , Lishan Li , Chris Hudy , Robert Schleusner

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) uses images of faces to identify the emotional state of users, allowing for a closer interaction between humans and autonomous systems. Unfortunately, as the images naturally integrate some demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

Multi-view facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging task because the appearance of an expression varies in poses. To alleviate the influences of poses, recent methods either perform pose normalization or learn separate FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuanyuan Liu , Jiyao Peng , Jiabei Zeng , Shiguang Shan

Understanding the facial expressions of our interlocutor is important to enrich the communication and to give it a depth that goes beyond the explicitly expressed. In fact, studying one's facial expression gives insight into their hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Rim EL Cheikh , Hélène Tran , Issam Falih , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Facial expression recognition (FER) aims to analyze emotional states from static images and dynamic sequences, which is pivotal in enhancing anthropomorphic communication among humans, robots, and digital avatars by leveraging AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yan Wang , Shaoqi Yan , Yang Liu , Wei Song , Jing Liu , Yang Chang , Xinji Mai , Xiping Hu , Wenqiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn data patterns to express face images for facial expression recognition (FER). However, they may ignore effect of facial segmentation of FER. In this paper, we propose a perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunwei Tian , Jingyuan Xie , Lingjun Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanning Zhang , David Zhang

The existing face recognition datasets usually lack occlusion samples, which hinders the development of face recognition. Especially during the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, wearing a mask has become an effective means of preventing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Baojin Huang , Zhongyuan Wang , Guangcheng Wang , Kui Jiang , Kangli Zeng , Zhen Han , Xin Tian , Yuhong Yang

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

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an important task in computer vision and has wide applications in human-computer interaction, intelligent security, emotion analysis, and other fields. However, the limited size of FER datasets limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Zhongpeng Cai , Renda Li , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of identifying human emotions from given data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because facial expressions contain rich emotional cues. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Kejun Liu , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen , Shiguang Shan

The increasing amount of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led researchers to study the social impact of these technologies and evaluate their fairness. Unfortunately, current fairness metrics are hard to apply in multi-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

Facial expression data is characterized by a significant imbalance, with most collected data showing happy or neutral expressions and fewer instances of fear or disgust. This imbalance poses challenges to facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuhang Zhang , Yaqi Li , Lixiong Qin , Xuannan Liu , Weihong Deng

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent agents and systems. However, key challenges remain in utilizing FER in real-world contexts, including ensuring user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sanjeev Nahulanthran , Leimin Tian , Dana Kulić , Mor Vered

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

Student expression recognition has become an essential tool for assessing learning experiences and emotional states. This paper introduces xLSTM-FER, a novel architecture derived from the Extended Long Short-Term Memory (xLSTM), designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Qionghao Huang , Jili Chen

Facial action units (FAUs) are critical for fine-grained facial expression analysis. Although FAU detection has been actively studied using ideally high quality images, it was not thoroughly studied under heavily occluded conditions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Minyang Jiang , Yongwei Wang , Martin J. McKeown , Z. Jane Wang

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) holds significant importance in human-computer interactions. Existing cross-domain FER methods often transfer knowledge solely from a single labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yuxiang Yang , Lu Wen , Xinyi Zeng , Yuanyuan Xu , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

In many domains, including online education, healthcare, security, and human-computer interaction, facial emotion recognition (FER) is essential. Real-world FER is still difficult despite its significance because of some factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Deeptimaan Banerjee , Prateek Gothwal , Ashis Kumer Biswas

SOTA facial expression recognition (FER) methods fail on test sets that have domain gaps with the train set. Recent domain adaptation FER methods need to acquire labeled or unlabeled samples of target domains to fine-tune the FER model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yuhang Zhang , Xiuqi Zheng , Chenyi Liang , Jiani Hu , Weihong Deng

Occlusion relationship reasoning demands closed contour to express the object, and orientation of each contour pixel to describe the order relationship between objects. Current CNN-based methods neglect two critical issues of the task: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Rui Lu , Feng Xue , Menghan Zhou , Anlong Ming , Yu Zhou