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Due to its importance in facial behaviour analysis, facial action unit (AU) detection has attracted increasing attention from the research community. Leveraging the online knowledge distillation framework, we propose the ``FANTrans" method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jing Yang , Jie Shen , Yiming Lin , Yordan Hristov , Maja Pantic

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. To alleviate this problem, a large amount of efforts has been dedicated to exploiting various methods which leverage numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Jingwei Yan , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) extends traditional facial emotion recognition by incorporating explainable, fine-grained reasoning. The task integrates three subtasks: emotion recognition, facial Action Unit (AU) recognition, and AU-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jiulong Wu , Yucheng Shen , Lingyong Yan , Haixin Sun , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang , Min Cao

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection has gained significant attention as it enables the breakdown of complex facial expressions into individual muscle movements. In this paper, we revisit two fundamental factors in AU detection: diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Mang Ning , Albert Ali Salah , Itir Onal Ertugrul

Since Facial Action Unit (AU) annotations require domain expertise, common AU datasets only contain a limited number of subjects. As a result, a crucial challenge for AU detection is addressing identity overfitting. We find that AUs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhipeng Hu , Wei Zhang , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Wei Chen , Zhigang Deng , Xin Yu

Multimodal analysis has recently drawn much interest in affective computing, since it can improve the overall accuracy of emotion recognition over isolated uni-modal approaches. The most effective techniques for multimodal emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 R. Gnana Praveen , Eric Granger , Patrick Cardinal

Facial Action Coding System is an important approach of facial expression analysis.This paper describes our submission to the third Affective Behavior Analysis (ABAW) 2022 competition. We proposed a transfomer based model to detect facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lingfeng Wang , Shisen Wang , Jin Qi

Detecting action units (AUs) on human faces is challenging because various AUs make subtle facial appearance change over various regions at different scales. Current works have attempted to recognize AUs by emphasizing important regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Junhai Yong

We propose a novel convolutional neural network approach to address the fine-grained recognition problem of multi-view dynamic facial action unit detection. We leverage recent gains in large-scale object recognition by formulating the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Andres Romero , Juan Leon , Pablo Arbelaez

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

In vision and linguistics; the main input modalities are facial expressions, speech patterns, and the words uttered. The issue with analysis of any one mode of expression (Visual, Verbal or Vocal) is that lot of contextual information can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kunjal Panchal

We consider the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a free-form, open-ended, question, expressed in natural language, the goal of VQA system is to provide accurate answer to this question with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tanzila Rahman , Shih-Han Chou , Leonid Sigal , Giuseppe Carenini

A hierarchical cross-modal fusion model is proposed for vision-language question answering (VLQA) in industrial robotics, targeting the challenges of semantic ambiguity, complex environmental layouts, and domain-specific terminology common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ping Li , Bartlomiej Brzozka

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to infer human affect by jointly modeling audio and visual cues; however, existing approaches often struggle with temporal misalignment, weakly discriminative feature representations, and suboptimal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Joe Dhanith P R , Shravan Venkatraman , Vigya Sharma , Santhosh Malarvannan

In this work, we focus on leveraging facial cues beyond the lip region for robust Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement (AVSE). The facial region, encompassing the lip region, reflects additional speech-related attributes such as gender, skin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Feixiang Wang , Shuang Yang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

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

Recognizing human emotion/expressions automatically is quite an expected ability for intelligent robotics, as it can promote better communication and cooperation with humans. Current deep-learning-based algorithms may achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tao Pu , Tianshui Chen , Yuan Xie , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

The muscular activities caused the activation of certain AUs for every facial expression at the certain duration of time throughout the facial expression. This paper presents the methods to recognise facial Action Unit (AU) using facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 N. Hussain , H. Ujir , I. Hipiny , J-L Minoi

State-of-the-art vision and vision-and-language models rely on large-scale visio-linguistic pretraining for obtaining good performance on a variety of downstream tasks. Generally, such models are often either cross-modal (contrastive) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Amanpreet Singh , Ronghang Hu , Vedanuj Goswami , Guillaume Couairon , Wojciech Galuba , Marcus Rohrbach , Douwe Kiela

Effective human-agent interaction (HAI) relies on accurate and adaptive perception of human emotional states. While multimodal deep learning models - leveraging facial expressions, speech, and textual cues - offer high accuracy in emotion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Matvey Nepomnyaschiy , Oleg Pereziabov , Anvar Tliamov , Stanislav Mikhailov , Ilya Afanasyev