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Facial expression recognition (FER) is a critical task in multimedia with significant implications across various domains. However, analyzing the causes of facial expressions is essential for accurately recognizing them. Current approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xing Lan , Jian Xue , Ji Qi , Dongmei Jiang , Ke Lu , Tat-Seng Chua

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection is a crucial task for emotion analysis from facial movements. The apparent differences of different subjects sometimes mislead changes brought by AUs, resulting in inaccurate results. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiyuan Cao , Zhilei Liu , Yong Zhang

Facial Action Coding System is an approach for modeling the complexity of human emotional expression. Automatic action unit (AU) detection is a crucial research area in human-computer interaction. This paper describes our submission to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Duy Le Hoai , Eunchae Lim , Eunbin Choi , Sieun Kim , Sudarshan Pant , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

Facial action units (AUs) are essential to decode human facial expressions. Researchers have focused on training AU detectors with a variety of features and classifiers. However, several issues remain. These are spatial representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Wen-Sheng Chu , Fernando De la Torre , Jeffrey F. Cohn

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in the wild is extremely challenging due to occlusions, variant head poses, face deformation and motion blur under unconstrained conditions. Although substantial progresses have been made in automatic FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Fuyan Ma , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in our daily life, the ability to recognize and adapt to human emotions is essential for effective human-computer interaction. Facial expression recognition (FER) provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thibault Geoffroy , Myriam Maumy , Lionel Prevost

Detecting facial action units (AU) is one of the fundamental steps in automatic recognition of facial expression of emotions and cognitive states. Though there have been a variety of approaches proposed for this task, most of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihee Lee , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Maja Pantic

Facial Action Units (AUs) detection is a cornerstone of objective facial expression analysis and a critical focus in affective computing. Despite its importance, AU detection faces significant challenges, such as the high cost of AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Bohao Xing , Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Heikki Kälviäinen

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) encodes the action units (AUs) in facial images, which has attracted extensive research attention due to its wide use in facial expression analysis. Many methods that perform well on automatic facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xuri Ge , Joemon M. Jose , Songpei Xu , Xiao Liu , Hu Han

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as a promising approach to the development of emotion-aware intelligent systems. The performance of FER in multiple domains is continuously being improved, especially through advancements in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sanjeev Nahulanthran , Mor Vered , Leimin Tian , Dana Kulić

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) aims to identify emotional states by modeling the temporal changes in facial movements across video sequences. A key challenge in DFER is the many-to-one labeling problem, where a video composed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Gunho Jung , Heejo Kong , Seong-Whan Lee

Much of the work on automatic facial expression recognition relies on databases containing a certain number of emotion classes and their exaggerated facial configurations (generally six prototypical facial expressions), based on Ekman's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Wenjing Yan , Shan Li , Chengtao Que , JiQuan Pei , Weihong Deng

The paper describes our proposed methodology for the six basic expression classification track of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition 2022. In Learing from Synthetic Data(LSD) task, facial expression recognition (FER)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Shuyi Mao , Xinpeng Li , Junyao Chen , Xiaojiang Peng

Despite the success of deep neural networks on facial action unit (AU) detection, better performance depends on a large number of training images with accurate AU annotations. However, labeling AU is time-consuming, expensive, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yong Li , Shiguang Shan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently hallucinate due to their reliance on fragile, linear reasoning and weak visual grounding. We propose Visual Attention Reasoning (VAR), a reinforcement learning framework that reformulates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Cai , Jian Zhao , Yuchen Yuan , Tianle Zhang , Ming Zhu , Haichuan Tang , Xuelong Li

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely on current observations, including images, language instructions, and robot states, to predict actions and complete tasks. While accurate visual perception is crucial for precise action prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cheng Yang , Jianhao Jiao , Lingyi Huang , Jinqi Xiao , Zhexiang Tang , Yu Gong , Yibiao Ying , Yang Sui , Jintian Lin , Wen Huang , Bo Yuan

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task due to two major problems: the presence of inter-subject variations in facial expression recognition dataset and impure expressions posed by human subjects. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kamran Ali , Ilkin Isler , Charles Hughes

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in vision-language tasks, yet they often struggle with vision-centric scenarios where precise visual focus is needed for accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yunze Man , De-An Huang , Guilin Liu , Shiwei Sheng , Shilong Liu , Liang-Yan Gui , Jan Kautz , Yu-Xiong Wang , Zhiding Yu

Natural language instruction following tasks serve as a valuable test-bed for grounded language and robotics research. However, data collection for these tasks is expensive and end-to-end approaches suffer from data inefficiency. We propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Kolby Nottingham , Litian Liang , Daeyun Shin , Charless C. Fowlkes , Roy Fox , Sameer Singh