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Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) plays a critical role in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Although existing methods achieve comparable performance, they inevitably suffer from performance degradation under…

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Compared with the image-based static facial expression recognition (SFER) task, the dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) task based on video sequences is closer to the natural expression recognition scene. However, DFER is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hanting Li , Hongjing Niu , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

We propose a Multi-Instance-Learning (MIL) approach for weakly-supervised learning problems, where a training set is formed by bags (sets of feature vectors or instances) and only labels at bag-level are provided. Specifically, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Adria Ruiz , Ognjen Rudovic , Xavier Binefa , Maja Pantic

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP offer promising solutions for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) but face challenges such as inefficient full fine-tuning, high complexity, and poor alignment between textual and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ibtissam Saadi , Abdenour Hadid , Douglas W. Cunningham , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed , Yassin El Hillali

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

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) facilitates the understanding of psychological intentions through non-verbal communication. Existing methods struggle to manage irrelevant information, such as background noise and redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Meng-zhu Li , Quanxing Zha , Hongjun Wu

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition(DFER) is a rapidly evolving field of research that focuses on the recognition of time-series facial expressions. While previous research on DFER has concentrated on feature learning from a deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Feng Liu , Lingna Gu , Chen Shi , Xiaolan Fu

Contrastive learning has shown promising potential for learning robust representations by utilizing unlabeled data. However, constructing effective positive-negative pairs for contrastive learning on facial behavior datasets remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xiang Zhang , Taoyue Wang , Xiaotian Li , Huiyuan Yang , Lijun Yin

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a subset of computer vision with important applications for human-computer-interaction, healthcare, and customer service. FER represents a challenging problem-space because accurate classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ezra Engel , Lishan Li , Chris Hudy , Robert Schleusner

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has been a challenging task for decades. Many of the existing works use hand-crafted features such as LBP, HOG, LPQ, and Histogram of Optical Flow (HOF) combined with classifiers such as Support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Facial expression recognition (FER) in 3D and 4D domains presents a significant challenge in affective computing due to the complexity of spatial and temporal facial dynamics. Its success is crucial for advancing applications in human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Muzammil Behzad

Existing facial expression recognition (FER) methods typically fine-tune a pre-trained visual encoder using discrete labels. However, this form of supervision limits to specify the emotional concept of different facial expressions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hangyu Li , Yihan Xu , Jiangchao Yao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a fundamental task in affective computing with applications in human-computer interaction, mental health analysis, and behavioral understanding. In this paper, we propose SMILE-VLM, a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Muzammil Behzad

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) infers emotions from the temporal evolution of expressions, unlike static facial expression recognition (SFER), which relies solely on a single snapshot. This temporal analysis provides richer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yin Chen , Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Zhenzhen Hu , Shiguang Shan , Meng Wang , Richang Hong

Facial expression plays an important role in understanding human emotions. Most recently, deep learning based methods have shown promising for facial expression recognition. However, the performance of the current state-of-the-art facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Ping Liu , Yunchao Wei , Zibo Meng , Weihong Deng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yi Yang

When emotions are repressed, an individual's true feelings may be revealed through micro-expressions. Consequently, micro-expressions are regarded as a genuine source of insight into an individual's authentic emotions. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Feng Liu , Bingyu Nan , Xuezhong Qian , Xiaolan Fu

This study introduces LRDif, a novel diffusion-based framework designed specifically for facial expression recognition (FER) within the context of under-display cameras (UDC). To address the inherent challenges posed by UDC's image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

This paper introduces LLDif, a novel diffusion-based facial expression recognition (FER) framework tailored for extremely low-light (LL) environments. Images captured under such conditions often suffer from low brightness and significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Zhifeng Wang , Kaihao Zhang , Ramesh Sankaranarayana

With the transition of facial expression recognition (FER) from laboratory-controlled to challenging in-the-wild conditions and the recent success of deep learning techniques in various fields, deep neural networks have increasingly been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Shan Li , Weihong Deng

Micro expression recognition (MER) is crucial for inferring genuine emotion. Applying a multimodal large language model (MLLM) to this task enables spatio-temporal analysis of facial motion and provides interpretable descriptions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ren Zhang , Huilai Li , Chao qi , Guoliang Xu , Tianyu Zhou , Wei wei , Jianqin Yin