{"url":"/dataset/dfew","name":"DFEW","full_name":"Dynamic Facial Expression in the Wild","description_markdown":"Recently, facial expression recognition (FER) in the wild has gained\r\na lot of researchers’ attention because it is a valuable topic to enable the FER techniques to move from the laboratory to the real\r\napplications. In this paper, we focus on this challenging but interesting topic and make contributions from three aspects. First, we\r\npresent a new large-scale ’in-the-wild’ dynamic facial expression\r\ndatabase, DFEW (Dynamic Facial Expression in the Wild), consisting of over 16,000 video clips from thousands of movies. These\r\nvideo clips contain various challenging interferences in practical\r\nscenarios such as extreme illumination, occlusions, and capricious\r\npose changes. Second, we propose a novel method called ExpressionClustered Spatiotemporal Feature Learning (EC-STFL) framework\r\nto deal with dynamic FER in the wild. Third, we conduct extensive\r\nbenchmark experiments on DFEW using a lot of spatiotemporal\r\ndeep feature learning methods as well as our proposed EC-STFL.\r\nExperimental results show that DFEW is a well-designed and challenging database, and the proposed EC-STFL can promisingly improve the performance of existing spatiotemporal deep neural networks in coping with the problem of dynamic FER in the wild. Our\r\nDFEW database is publicly available and can be freely downloaded\r\nfrom https://dfew-dataset.github.io/.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://dfew-dataset.github.io/","introduced_date":"2020-08-13","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/dfew-a-large-scale-database-for-recognizing","title":"DFEW: A Large-Scale Database for Recognizing Dynamic Facial Expressions in the Wild","first_author":"Xingxun Jiang","url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[{"name":"Facial Expression Recognition (FER)","url":"/task/facial-expression-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/facial-expression-recognition"},{"name":"Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition","url":"/task/dynamic-facial-expression-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/dynamic-facial-expression-recognition"}],"languages":[],"variants":["DFEW"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":45,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}