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Facial Micro-Expressions (MEs) are spontaneous, involuntary facial movements when a person experiences an emotion but deliberately or unconsciously attempts to conceal his or her genuine emotions. Recently, ME recognition has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Chengyu Guo , Jingyun Liang , Geng Zhan , Zhong Liu , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Micro-expression analysis has applications in domains such as Human-Robot Interaction and Driver Monitoring Systems. Accurately capturing subtle and fast facial movements remains difficult when relying solely on RGB cameras, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Nicolas Mastropasqua , Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova , Rodrigo Verschae , Daniel Acevedo , Pablo Negri , Maria E. Buemi

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging problem, due to transient and subtle micro-expression (ME) actions. Most existing methods depend on hand-crafted features, key frames like onset, apex, and offset frames, or deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhiwen Shao , Yifan Cheng , Feiran Li , Yong Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

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

Micro-expressions are brief and subtle facial expressions that go on and off the face in a fraction of a second. This kind of facial expressions usually occurs in high stake situations and is considered to reflect a human's real intent.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Carlos Arango Duque , Olivier Alata , Rémi Emonet , Hubert Konik , Anne-Claire Legrand

Video-based automatic depression analysis provides a fast, objective and repeatable self-assessment solution, which has been widely developed in recent years. While depression clues may be reflected by human facial behaviours of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jiaqi Xu , Siyang Song , Keerthy Kusumam , Hatice Gunes , Michel Valstar

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal emotion recognition capabilities, integrating multimodal cues from visual, acoustic, and linguistic contexts in the video to recognize human emotional states.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Liyun Zhang

Unlike prevalent facial expressions, micro expressions have subtle, involuntary muscle movements which are short-lived in nature. These minute muscle movements reflect true emotions of a person. Due to the short duration and low intensity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Monu Verma , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi , Girdhari Singh , Subrahmanyam Murala

Micro-expressions are short bursts of emotion that are difficult to hide. Their detection in children is an important cue to assist psychotherapists in conducting better therapy. However, existing research on the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Nikin~Matharaarachchi , Muhammad~Fermi Pasha , Sonya~Coleman , Kah PengWong

Micro-expressions are brief spontaneous facial expressions that appear on a face when a person conceals an emotion, making them different to normal facial expressions in subtlety and duration. Currently, emotion classes within the CASME II…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Adrian K. Davison , Walied Merghani , Moi Hoon Yap

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

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal genuine emotions, offering valuable insights for psychological assessment and criminal investigations. Despite significant progress in automatic ME recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xinglong Mao , Shifeng Liu , Sirui Zhao , Tong Xu , Hanchao Wang , Baozhi Jia , Enhong Chen

Accurately analyzing spontaneous, unconscious micro-expressions is crucial for revealing true human emotions, but this task remains challenging in wild scenarios, such as natural conversation. Existing research largely relies on datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yigui Feng , Qinglin Wang , Yang Liu , Ke Liu , Haotian Mo , Enhao Huang , Gencheng Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Jie Liu

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 micro-expression (ME) recognition has posed a huge challenge to researchers for its subtlety in motion and limited databases. Recently, handcrafted techniques have achieved superior performance in micro-expression recognition but at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Huai-Qian Khor , John See , Raphael C. W. Phan , Weiyao Lin

Being spontaneous, micro-expressions are useful in the inference of a person's true emotions even if an attempt is made to conceal them. Due to their short duration and low intensity, the recognition of micro-expressions is a difficult task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Liangfei Zhang , Xiaopeng Hong , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Guoying Zhao

Facial expression is a standout amongst the most imperative features of human emotion recognition. For demonstrating the emotional states facial expressions are utilized by the people. In any case, recognition of facial expressions has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 S. D. Lalitha , K. K. Thyagharajan

Spotting facial micro-expression from videos finds various potential applications in fields including clinical diagnosis and interrogation, meanwhile this task is still difficult due to the limited scale of training data. To solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi Zhang , Youjun Zhao , Yuhang Wen , Zixuan Tang , Xinhua Xu , Mengyuan Liu

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have recently shown strong performance in basic video understanding tasks, such as captioning and coarse-grained question answering, but struggle with compositional reasoning that requires multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haiyi Qiu , Minghe Gao , Long Qian , Kaihang Pan , Qifan Yu , Juncheng Li , Wenjie Wang , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang , Tat-Seng Chua

Utilizing large pre-trained models for specific tasks has yielded impressive results. However, fully fine-tuning these increasingly large models is becoming prohibitively resource-intensive. This has led to a focus on more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shreyank N Gowda , Boyan Gao , David A. Clifton