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A micro-expression is a spontaneous unconscious facial muscle movement that can reveal the true emotions people attempt to hide. Although manual methods have made good progress and deep learning is gaining prominence. Due to the short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Fengping Wang , Jie Li , Chun Qi , Lin Wang , Pan Wang

Despite their continued popularity, categorical approaches to affect recognition have limitations, especially in real-life situations. Dimensional models of affect offer important advantages for the recognition of subtle expressions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Vassilios Vonikakis , Stefan Winkler

Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, subtle facial expressions that reveal concealed emotions, offering key behavioral cues for social interaction. Characterized by short duration, low intensity, and spontaneity, MEs have been mostly studied…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jingting Li , Shaoyuan Lu , Yan Wang , Zizhao Dong , Su-Jing Wang , Xiaolan Fu

In this paper, a deep learning framework is proposed for automatic facial emotion based on deep convolutional networks. In order to increase the generalization ability and the robustness of the method, the dataset size is increased by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Serap Kırbız

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 (MEs) are infrequent and uncontrollable facial events that can highlight emotional deception and appear in a high-stakes environment. This paper propose an algorithm for spatiotemporal MEs spotting. Since MEs are unusual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dawood Al Chanti , Alice Caplier

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

Micro-expression recognition plays a pivotal role in understanding hidden emotions and has applications across various fields. Traditional recognition methods assume access to all training data at once, but real-world scenarios involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhengqin Lai , Xiaopeng Hong , Yabin Wang , Xiaobai Li

Recently, the recognition task of spontaneous facial micro-expressions has attracted much attention with its various real-world applications. Plenty of handcrafted or learned features have been employed for a variety of classifiers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaopeng Hong , Xingyu Gao , Xiaoyi Feng , Guoying Zhao

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

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

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is an important task in the field of computer vision. To apply automatic DFER in practice, it is necessary to accurately recognize ambiguous facial expressions, which often appear in data in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ryosuke Kawamura , Hideaki Hayashi , Noriko Takemura , Hajime Nagahara

Accurate speech emotion recognition is essential for developing human-facing systems. Recent advancements have included finetuning large, pretrained transformer models like Wav2Vec 2.0. However, the finetuning process requires substantial…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aneesha Sampath , James Tavernor , Emily Mower Provost

Emotions play a central role in the social life of every human being, and their study, which represents a multidisciplinary subject, embraces a great variety of research fields. Especially concerning the latter, the analysis of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Donato Cafarelli , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

The face expression is the first thing we pay attention to when we want to understand a person's state of mind. Thus, the ability to recognize facial expressions in an automatic way is a very interesting research field. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrico Randellini , Leonardo Rigutini , Claudio Sacca'

Facial expression is temporally dynamic event which can be decomposed into a set of muscle motions occurring in different facial regions over various time intervals. For dynamic expression recognition, two key issues, temporal alignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Mengyi Liu , Shiguang Shan , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

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

Facial actions are spatio-temporal signals by nature, and therefore their modeling is crucially dependent on the availability of temporal information. In this paper, we focus on inferring such temporal dynamics of facial actions when no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Siyang Song , Enrique Sánchez-Lozano , Linlin Shen , Alan Johnston , Michel Valstar

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to automatically identify and understand human emotional states by integrating information from various modalities. However, the scarcity of annotated multimodal data significantly hinders the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhixian Zhao , Haifeng Chen , Xi Li , Dongmei Jiang , Lei Xie

This paper proposes a feature-based domain adaptation technique for identifying emotions in generic images, encompassing both facial and non-facial objects, as well as non-human components. This approach addresses the challenge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Puneet Kumar , Balasubramanian Raman