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Facial Expression Recognition using Residual Masking Network

5 May 2021International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2021 5archive 2025-07-28

Luan Pham, The Huynh Vu, Tuan Anh Tran

Automatic facial expression recognition (FER) has gained much attention due to its applications in human-computer interaction. Among the approaches to improve FER tasks, this paper focuses on deep architecture with the attention mechanism. We propose a novel Masking Idea to boost the performance of CNN in facial expression task. It uses a segmentation network to refine feature maps, enabling the network to focus on relevant information to make correct decisions. In experiments, we combine the ubiquitous Deep Residual Network and Unet-like architecture to produce a Residual Masking Network. The proposed method holds state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy on the well-known FER2013 and private VEMO datasets.

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Facial Expression RecognitionFacial Expression Recognition (FER)

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Facial Expression Recognition (FER) FER2013 Ensemble ResMaskingNet with 6 other CNNs Accuracy 76.82 #4 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Facial Expression Recognition (FER) FER2013 Residual Masking Network Accuracy 74.14 #10 of 17 Archive leaderboard report

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