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Facial Expression Recognition datasets

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7 datasets carry the task tag "Facial Expression Recognition" (the task itself: Facial Expression Recognition), ordered by the archive's paper count. Page 1 of 1: 7 shown of 7. Facet routes are this site's own (the archive records the tag string, not a page).

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Facial Expression Recognition datasets 1–7 of 7

AffectNet (burak yılmaz)
AffectNet is a large facial expression dataset with around 0.4 million images manually labeled for the presence of eight (neutral, happy, angry, sad, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt) facial expressions along with the intensity of valence…
323 papers · 4 benchmarks
MELD (Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset)
Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD) has been created by enhancing and extending EmotionLines dataset.
289 papers · 3 benchmarks
CMU Multimodal Opinion Sentiment and Emotion Intensity (CMU-MOSEI) is the largest dataset of sentence-level sentiment analysis and emotion recognition in online videos.
190 papers · 3 benchmarks
RAF-DB (Real-world Affective Faces)
The Real-world Affective Faces Database (RAF-DB) is a dataset for facial expression.
172 papers · 3 benchmarks
FER2013 (Facial Expression Recognition 2013 Dataset)
Fer2013 contains approximately 30,000 facial RGB images of different expressions with size restricted to 48×48, and the main labels of it can be divided into 7 types: 0=Angry, 1=Disgust, 2=Fear, 3=Happy, 4=Sad, 5=Surprise, 6=Neutral.
168 papers · 5 benchmarks
Aff-Wild2 is a large-scale in-the-wild database and an extension of the Aff-Wild dataset for affect recognition.
142 papers · 2 benchmarks
FER+ (Face Expression Recognition Plus dataset)
The FER+ dataset is an extension of the original FER dataset, where the images have been re-labelled into one of 8 emotion types: neutral, happiness, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, and contempt.
124 papers · 3 benchmarks

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