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Phase recognition in surgical videos is crucial for enhancing computer-aided surgical systems as it enables automated understanding of sequential procedural stages. Existing methods often rely on fixed temporal windows for video analysis to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Alejandra Pérez , Santiago Rodríguez , Nicolás Ayobi , Nicolás Aparicio , Eugénie Dessevres , Pablo Arbeláez

Robustness against temporal variations is important for emotion recognition from speech audio, since emotion is ex-pressed through complex spectral patterns that can exhibit significant local dilation and compression on the time axis…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Eric Guizzo , Tillman Weyde , Jack Barnett Leveson

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) presents unique challenges, requiring models to capture the temporal flow of multi-turn dialogues and to effectively integrate cues from multiple modalities. We propose Mixture of Speech-Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soumya Dutta , Smruthi Balaji , Sriram Ganapathy

Enabled by multi-head self-attention, Transformer has exhibited remarkable results in speech emotion recognition (SER). Compared to the original full attention mechanism, window-based attention is more effective in learning fine-grained…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weidong Chen , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Jianxin Pang , Lan Du

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, low-intensity, often localized facial expressions. They could reveal genuine emotions individuals may attempt to conceal, valuable in contexts like criminal interrogation and psychological counseling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jingting Li , Yu Qian , Lin Zhao , Su-Jing Wang

Micro-expression, for its high objectivity in emotion detection, has emerged to be a promising modality in affective computing. Recently, deep learning methods have been successfully introduced into the micro-expression recognition area.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Chongyang Wang , Min Peng , Tao Bi , Tong Chen

Pre-trained vision-language models provide a robust foundation for efficient transfer learning across various downstream tasks. In the field of video action recognition, mainstream approaches often introduce additional modules to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Haoxing Chen , Zizheng Huang , Yan Hong , Yanshuo Wang , Zhongcai Lyu , Zhuoer Xu , Jun Lan , Zhangxuan Gu

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for human-computer interaction, yet real-world challenges like dynamic modality incompleteness and asynchrony severely limit its robustness. Existing methods often assume consistently complete…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yitong Zhu , Lei Han , Guanxuan Jiang , PengYuan Zhou , Yuyang Wang

Spatial-temporal feature learning is of vital importance for video emotion recognition. Previous deep network structures often focused on macro-motion which extends over long time scales, e.g., on the order of seconds. We believe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Didan Deng , Zhaokang Chen , Yuqian Zhou , Bertram Shi

Facial micro-expressions are subtle and involuntary expressions that can reveal concealed emotions. Micro-expressions are an invaluable source of information in application domains such as lie detection, mental health, sentiment analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Michiel Verburg , Vlado Menkovski

This paper focuses on the research of micro-expression recognition (MER) and proposes a flexible and reliable deep learning method called learning to rank onset-occurring-offset representations (LTR3O). The LTR3O method introduces a dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jie Zhu , Yuan Zong , Jingang Shi , Cheng Lu , Hongli Chang , Wenming Zheng

The automatic recognition of micro-expression has been boosted ever since the successful introduction of deep learning approaches. As researchers working on such topics are moving to learn from the nature of micro-expression, the practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , XiangDong Zhou , Yu shi

Facial expressions are important cues to observe human emotions. Facial expression recognition has attracted many researchers for years, but it is still a challenging topic since expression features vary greatly with the head poses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 S. D. Lalitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

Decades of research indicate that emotion recognition is more effective when drawing information from multiple modalities. But what if some modalities are sometimes missing? To address this problem, we propose a novel Transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L. Crowley

Micro-actions are subtle, localized movements lasting 1-3 seconds such as scratching one's head or tapping fingers. Such subtle actions are essential for social communication, ubiquitously used in natural interactions, and thus critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Naga VS Raviteja Chappa , Evangelos Sariyanidi , Lisa Yankowitz , Gokul Nair , Casey J. Zampella , Robert T. Schultz , Birkan Tunç

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

Micro-expressions (MEs) are crucial leakages of concealed emotion, yet their study has been constrained by a reliance on silent, visual-only data. To solve this issue, we introduce two principal contributions. First, MMED, to our knowledge,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Junbo Wang , Yan Zhao , Shuo Li , Shibo Wang , Shigang Wang , Jian Wei

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is valuable because micro-expressions (MEs) can reveal genuine emotions. Most works take image sequences as input and cannot effectively explore ME information because subtle ME-related motions are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinsheng Wei , Wei Peng , Guanming Lu , Yante Li , Jingjie Yan , Guoying Zhao

Accurate emotion recognition is pivotal for nuanced and engaging human-computer interactions, yet remains difficult to achieve, especially in dynamic, conversation-like settings. In this study, we showcase how integrating eye-tracking data,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Meisam Jamshidi Seikavandi , Jostein Fimland , Maria Barrett , Paolo Burelli

Micro-expression recognition is one of the most challenging topics in affective computing. It aims to recognize tiny facial movements difficult for humans to perceive in a brief period, i.e., 0.25 to 0.5 seconds. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Chi Nhan Duong , Xin Li , Susan Gauch , Han-Seok Seo , Khoa Luu