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As a spontaneous expression of emotion on face, micro-expression reveals the underlying emotion that cannot be controlled by human. In micro-expression, facial movement is transient and sparsely localized through time. However, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou

Compressed video action recognition has recently drawn growing attention, since it remarkably reduces the storage and computational cost via replacing raw videos by sparsely sampled RGB frames and compressed motion cues (e.g., motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Bing Li , Jiaxin Chen , Dongming Zhang , Xiuguo Bao , Di Huang

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements revealing people's hidden feelings, which has attracted numerous interests for its objectivity in emotion detection. However, despite its wide applications in various scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jingyao Wang , Yunhan Tian , Yuxuan Yang , Xiaoxin Chen , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary and subtle facial expressions that are thought to reveal feelings people are trying to hide. ME spotting detects the temporal intervals containing MEs in videos. Detecting such quick and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yini Fang , Didan Deng , Liang Wu , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Lijun Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Weicheng Tang , Xinzhi Sun , Xiaomeng Wang , Zhanshan Li

Micro-expressions are nonverbal facial expressions that reveal the covert emotions of individuals, making the micro-expression recognition task receive widespread attention. However, the micro-expression recognition task is challenging due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Ren Zhang , Jianqin Yin , Chao Qi , Zehao Wang , Zhicheng Zhang , Yonghao Dang

Micro-expressions (MEs) are rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions that people do not intend to show. Studying MEs is valuable as recognizing them has many important applications, particularly in forensic science and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Antti Moilanen , Xiaohua Huang , Tomas Pfister , Guoying Zhao , Matti Pietikäinen

Recently many effective attention modules are proposed to boot the model performance by exploiting the internal information of convolutional neural networks in computer vision. In general, many previous works ignore considering the design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shanshan Zhong , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin

Facial micro-expressions, characterized by their subtle and brief nature, are valuable indicators of genuine emotions. Despite their significance in psychology, security, and behavioral analysis, micro-expression recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Thi Duyen Ngo , Thanh Ha Le

Micro-expressions are rapid and involuntary facial expressions, which indicate the suppressed or concealed emotions. Recently, the research on automatic micro-expression (ME) spotting obtains increasing attention. ME spotting is a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Xiaopeng Hong , Thuong-Khanh Tran , Guoying Zhao

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-expressions (MEs) are involuntary facial movements revealing people's hidden feelings in high-stake situations and have practical importance in medical treatment, national security, interrogations and many human-computer interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yante Li , Jinsheng Wei , Yang Liu , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

Unlike macro-expression, micro-expression does not follow a strictly consistent mapping rule between emotions and Action Units (AUs). As a result, some micro-expressions share identical AUs yet represent completely opposite emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxing Hu , Kun Xie , Qiguang Miao , Ruyi Liu , Quan Wang , Zongkai Yang

Action Unit (AU) detection plays an important role for facial expression recognition. To the best of our knowledge, there is little research about AU analysis for micro-expressions. In this paper, we focus on AU detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yante Li , Xiaohua Huang , Guoying Zhao

Unlike typical video action recognition, Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) does not involve distinct moving targets but relies on localized changes in facial muscles. Addressing this distinctive attribute, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Linhuang Wang , Xin Kang , Fei Ding , Satoshi Nakagawa , Fuji Ren

Efficient long-short temporal modeling is key for enhancing the performance of action recognition task. In this paper, we propose a new two-stream action recognition network, termed as MENet, consisting of a Motion Enhancement (ME) module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Liyu Wu , Yuexian Zou , Can Zhang

Micro-expression recognition can obtain the real emotion of the individual at the current moment. Although deep learning-based methods, especially Transformer-based methods, have achieved impressive results, these methods have high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Junbo Wang , Liangyu Fu , Yuke Li , Yining Zhu , Xuecheng Wu , Kun Hu

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief and involuntary facial expressions that occur when people are trying to hide their true feelings or conceal their emotions. Based on psychology research, MEs play an important role in understanding genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Thuong-Khanh Tran , Quang-Nhat Vo , Xiaopeng Hong , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Existing multimodal-based human action recognition approaches are computationally intensive, limiting their deployment in real-time applications. In this work, we present a novel and efficient pose-driven attention-guided multimodal network…

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