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Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) is a challenging task as the subtle changes occur over different action regions of a face. Changes in facial action regions are formed as Action Units (AUs), and AUs in micro-expressions can be seen as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ling Zhou , Qirong Mao , Ming Dong

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

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

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires representations that effectively integrate signals from multiple modalities. These signals include modality-specific cues, information shared across modalities, and interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anh-Tuan Mai , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Duc-Trong Le

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

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

Automated human emotion recognition from facial expressions is a well-studied problem and still remains a very challenging task. Some efficient or accurate deep learning models have been presented in the literature. However, it is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Monu Verma , Murari Mandal , Satish Kumar Reddy , Yashwanth Reddy Meedimale , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is essential to the development of intelligent and empathetic machines. Prior efforts in this field mainly fall into supervised learning paradigm, which is severely restricted by the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Licai Sun , Zheng Lian , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

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-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

We propose a self-supervised contrastive learning approach for facial expression recognition (FER) in videos. We propose a novel temporal sampling-based augmentation scheme to be utilized in addition to standard spatial augmentations used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Shuvendu Roy , Ali Etemad

In this work, we focus on a special group of human body language -- the micro-gesture (MG), which differs from the range of ordinary illustrative gestures in that they are not intentional behaviors performed to convey information to others,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Rong Gao , Xin Liu , Bohao Xing , Zitong Yu , Bjorn W. Schuller , Heikki Kälviäinen

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 micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Wen-Huang Cheng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davision

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

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) aims to identify human emotions from temporally evolving facial movements and plays a critical role in affective computing. While recent vision-language approaches have introduced semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yu Liu , Leyuan Qu , Hanlei Shi , Di Gao , Yuhua Zheng , Taihao Li

This study investigates the efficacy of facial micro-expressions as a soft biometric for enhancing person recognition, aiming to broaden the understanding of the subject and its potential applications. We propose a deep learning approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Tuval Kay , Yuval Ringel , Khen Cohen , Mor-Avi Azulay , David Mendlovic

Facial expression recognition (FER) aims to analyze emotional states from static images and dynamic sequences, which is pivotal in enhancing anthropomorphic communication among humans, robots, and digital avatars by leveraging AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yan Wang , Shaoqi Yan , Yang Liu , Wei Song , Jing Liu , Yang Chang , Xinji Mai , Xiping Hu , Wenqiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

Automatic Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has attracted increasing attention in the last 20 years since facial expressions play a central role in human communication. Most FER methodologies utilize Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Andreas Psaroudakis , Dimitrios Kollias

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