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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

Micro-expressions (MEs), brief and low-intensity facial movements revealing concealed emotions, are crucial for affective computing. Despite notable progress in ME recognition, existing methods are largely confined to discrete emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sirui Zhao , Zhengye Zhang , Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Shukang Yin , Chaoyou Fu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Facial Micro-expression Recognition (MER) distinguishes the underlying emotional states of spontaneous subtle facialexpressions. Automatic MER is challenging because that 1) the intensity of subtle facial muscle movement is extremely lowand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wei Peng , Xiaopeng Hong , Yingyue Xu , Guoying Zhao

Micro-gestures are subtle and transient movements triggered by unconscious neural and emotional activities, holding great potential for human-computer interaction and clinical monitoring. However, their low amplitude, short duration, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Weijia Feng , Jingyu Yang , Ruojia Zhang , Fengtao Sun , Qian Gao , Chenyang Wang , Tongtong Su , Jia Guo , Xiaobai Li , Minglai Shao

Despite recent interest and advances in facial micro-expression research, there is still plenty room for improvement in terms of micro-expression recognition. Conventional feature extraction approaches for micro-expression video consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Sze-Teng Liong , John See , KokSheik Wong , Raphael C. -W. Phan

Detecting concealed emotions within apparently normal expressions is crucial for identifying potential mental health issues and facilitating timely support and intervention. The task of spotting macro and micro-expressions involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pei-Sze Tan , Sailaja Rajanala , Arghya Pal , Raphaël C. -W. Phan , Huey-Fang Ong

Facial micro-expressions are sudden involuntary minute muscle movements which reveal true emotions that people try to conceal. Spotting a micro-expression and recognizing it is a major challenge owing to its short duration and intensity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sauradip Nag , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Partha Pratim Roy

Facial micro-expressions are very brief, spontaneous facial expressions that appear on the face of humans when they either deliberately or unconsciously conceal an emotion. Micro-expression has shorter duration than macro-expression, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Walied Merghani , Adrian K. Davison , Moi Hoon Yap

Micro-expression has emerged as a promising modality in affective computing due to its high objectivity in emotion detection. Despite the higher recognition accuracy provided by the deep learning models, there are still significant scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy , Snehasis Mukherjee , Shiv Ram Dubey

Micro-expression recognition (MER), a critical subfield of affective computing, presents greater challenges than macro-expression recognition due to its brief duration and low intensity. While incorporating prior knowledge has been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Chuang Ma , Shaokai Zhao , Dongdong Zhou , Yu Pei , Zhiguo Luo , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Facial micro-expressions recognition has attracted much attention recently. Micro-expressions have the characteristics of short duration and low intensity, and it is difficult to train a high-performance classifier with the limited number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yanxin Song , Jianzong Wang , Tianbo Wu , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

Owing to the development and advancement of artificial intelligence, numerous works were established in the human facial expression recognition system. Meanwhile, the detection and classification of micro-expressions are attracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Sze-Teng Liong , Y. S. Gan , Danna Zheng , Shu-Meng Lic , Hao-Xuan Xua , Han-Zhe Zhang , Ran-Ke Lyu , Kun-Hong Liu

Micro-expression recognition (MER) is a highly challenging task in affective computing. With the reduced-sized micro-expression (ME) input that contains key information based on key-frame indexes, key-frame-based methods have significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zheyuan Zhang , Weihao Tang , Hong Chen

Facial expression is an essential factor in conveying human emotional states and intentions. Although remarkable advancement has been made in facial expression recognition (FER) task, challenges due to large variations of expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jie Lei , Zhao Liu , Zeyu Zou , Tong Li , Xu Juan , Shuaiwei Wang , Guoyu Yang , Zunlei Feng

Recent advances in video diffusion models have unlocked new potential for realistic audio-driven talking video generation. However, achieving seamless audio-lip synchronization, maintaining long-term identity consistency, and producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Longtao Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiachun Pan , Zhenxiong Tan , Jiahao Lu , Chuanxin Tang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

Facial expressions vary from the visible to the subtle. In recent years, the analysis of micro-expressions $-$ a natural occurrence resulting from the suppression of one's true emotions, has drawn the attention of researchers with a broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Gen-Bing Liong , John See , Lai-Kuan Wong

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

Human emotion recognition holds a pivotal role in facilitating seamless human-computer interaction. This paper delineates our methodology in tackling the Valence-Arousal (VA) Estimation Challenge, Expression (Expr) Classification Challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Weiwei Zhou , Jiada Lu , Chenkun Ling , Weifeng Wang , Shaowei Liu

This paper introduces EXMOVES, learned exemplar-based features for efficient recognition of actions in videos. The entries in our descriptor are produced by evaluating a set of movement classifiers over spatial-temporal volumes of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Du Tran , Lorenzo Torresani

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