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Facial expression datasets remain limited in scale due to the subjectivity of annotations and the labor-intensive nature of data collection. This limitation poses a significant challenge for developing modern deep learning-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xilin He , Cheng Luo , Xiaole Xian , Bing Li , Muhammad Haris Khan , Zongyuan Ge , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Linlin Shen , Bernard Ghanem , Xiangyu Yue

Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to the ambiguity of expressions. The derived noisy labels significantly harm the performance in real-world scenarios. To address this issue, we present a new FER model named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui

The rapid aging of the global population has highlighted the need for technologies to support elderly, particularly in healthcare and emotional well-being. Facial expression recognition (FER) systems offer a non-invasive means of monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Jose M. Buades-Rubio , Philippe Palanque , Raquel Lacuesta , Cristina Manresa-Yee

Facial expressions are the most common universal forms of body language. In the past few years, automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has been an active field of research. However, it is still a challenging task due to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Rauf Momin , Ali Shan Momin , Khalid Rasheed , Muhammad Saqib

Bringing empathy to a computerized system could significantly improve the quality of human-computer communications, as soon as machines would be able to understand customer intentions and better serve their needs. According to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Kamil Akhmetov

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predominantly rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, which fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Haoyu Chen , Lan Chen , Hao Gu , Zhuofan Wen , Shun Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Bin Liu , Rui Liu , Shan Liang , Ya Li , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

This study takes a preliminary step toward teaching computers to recognize human emotions through Facial Emotion Recognition (FER). Transfer learning is applied using ResNeXt, EfficientNet models, and an ArcFace model originally trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Dylan Waldner , Shyamal Mitra

Facial expressions convey nonverbal cues which play an important role in interpersonal relations, and are widely used in behavior interpretation of emotions, cognitive science, and social interactions. In this paper we analyze different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Deepak Ghimire , Joonwhoan Lee , Ze-Nian Li , Sunghwan Jeong

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a crucial part of human-computer interaction. Existing FER methods achieve high accuracy and generalization based on different open-source deep models and training approaches. However, the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gianmarco Ipinze Tutuianu , Yang Liu , Ari Alamäki , Janne Kauttonen

In this paper, we present an approach based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for facial expression recognition in a difficult setting with severe occlusions. More specifically, our task is to recognize the facial expression of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown to outperform traditional methods in various visual recognition tasks including Facial Expression Recognition (FER). In spite of efforts made to improve the accuracy of FER systems using DNN, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Occluded face detection is a challenging detection task due to the large appearance variations incurred by various real-world occlusions. This paper introduces an Adversarial Occlusion-aware Face Detector (AOFD) by simultaneously detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Yujia Chen , Lingxiao Song , Ran He

The tremendous development in deep learning has led facial expression recognition (FER) to receive much attention in the past few years. Although 3D FER has an inherent edge over its 2D counterpart, work on 2D images has dominated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Faizan Farooq Khan , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is crucial in many research domains because it enables machines to better understand human behaviours. FER methods face the problems of relatively small datasets and noisy data that don't allow classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jules Bonnard , Arnaud Dapogny , Ferdinand Dhombres , Kévin Bailly

Deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Most of the existing deep learning based FER methods do not consider domain knowledge well, which thereby fail to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yuedong Chen , Jianfeng Wang , Shikai Chen , Zhongchao Shi , Jianfei Cai

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

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) in the wild is an extremely challenging task, due to a large number of noisy frames in the video sequences. Previous works focus on extracting more discriminative features, but ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Hanting Li , Mingzhe Sui , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng zhao

Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is crucial for applications such as human-computer interaction and mental health diagnostics. This study presents the first empirical comparison of open-source Vision-Language Models (VLMs), including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Vamsi Krishna Mulukutla , Sai Supriya Pavarala , Srinivasa Raju Rudraraju , Sridevi Bonthu

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a challenging problem because the expression component is always entangled with other irrelevant factors, such as identity and head pose. In this work, we propose an identity and pose disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Jing Jiang , Weihong Deng

Automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has gained much attention due to its applications in human-computer interaction. Among the approaches to improve FER tasks, this paper focuses on deep architecture with the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Luan Pham , The Huynh Vu , Tuan Anh Tran