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Frame-level Prediction of Facial Expressions, Valence, Arousal and Action Units for Mobile Devices

25 Mar 2022arXiv:2203.13436archive 2025-07-28

Andrey V. Savchenko

In this paper, we consider the problem of real-time video-based facial emotion analytics, namely, facial expression recognition, prediction of valence and arousal and detection of action unit points. We propose the novel frame-level emotion recognition algorithm by extracting facial features with the single EfficientNet model pre-trained on AffectNet. As a result, our approach may be implemented even for video analytics on mobile devices. Experimental results for the large scale Aff-Wild2 database from the third Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition demonstrate that our simple model is significantly better when compared to the VggFace baseline. In particular, our method is characterized by 0.15-0.2 higher performance measures for validation sets in uni-task Expression Classification, Valence-Arousal Estimation and Expression Classification. Due to simplicity, our approach may be considered as a new baseline for all four sub-challenges.

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Arousal EstimationEmotion RecognitionFacial Expression RecognitionFacial Expression Recognition (FER)

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