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AffectNet Benchmark (Facial Expression Recognition (FER))
Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is a computer vision task aimed at identifying and categorizing emotional expressions depicted on a human face. The goal is to automate the process of determining emotions in real-time, by analyzing the various features of a face such as eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and other features, and mapping them to a set of emotions such as anger, fear, surprise, sadness and happiness.
The archive carries no text for this table; the description above is the archive's text for the task Facial Expression Recognition (FER). archive 2025-07-28
Over time archive 2025-07-28
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Direction inferred from the metric name, not from the archive: Accuracy (8 emotion) (higher is better), Accuracy (7 emotion) (higher is better). Points are placed at the row's paper date; 50 of 50 rows carry one.
Results archive 2025-07-28
Archive rows end at the archive snapshot, 2025-07-28: no result published after that date is in this table. Rank is the archive's row order at that snapshot; not re-ranked here. Metric values are the archive's strings. Column headers sort the table in your browser; each row keeps its archive rank.
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| 1 | Norface | 68.69 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 2 | DDAMFN++ | 65.04 | 67.36 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 3 | FMAE | 64.79 | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 4 | QCS | 64.4 | 67.94 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 5 | BTN | 64.29 | 67.60 | – | Paper | – | 2024 | no code linked | report |
| 6 | DDAMFN | 64.25 | 67.03 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 7 | EmoNeXt | 64.13 | 67.46 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 8 | POSTER++ | 63.77 | 67.49 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 9 | LFNSB | 63.12 | 66.57 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 10 | S2D | 63.06 | 67.62 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 7 of 14 ran · 7 unverified | report |
| 11 | Multi-task EfficientNet-B2 | 63.03 | 66.29 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 12 | MT-ArcRes | 63 | – | Paper | – | 2019 | no code linked | report | |
| 13 | ExpLLM | 62.86 | 65.93 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 14 | Vit-base + MAE | 62.42 | – | Paper | – | 2022 | no code linked | report | |
| 15 | CAGE | 62.2 | 66.6 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 16 | DAN | 62.09 | 65.69 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 17 | SL + SSL in-panting-pl (B0) | 61.72 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 18 | Distilled student | 61.60 | 65.4 | ✓ | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report |
| 19 | Multi-task EfficientNet-B0 | 61.32 | 65.74 | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 20 | SL + SSL puzzling (B2) | 61.32 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 21 | SL + SSL puzzling (B0) | 61.09 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 22 | PSR (VGG-16) | 60.68 | - | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2020 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 23 | VGG-FACE | 60.40 | ✓ | Paper | – | 2018 | no code linked | report | |
| 24 | SL (B2) | 60.35 | ✓ | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 25 | SL (B0) | 60.34 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 26 | MA-Net | 60.29 | 64.53 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 27 | EfficientFace | 59.89 | 63.70 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 28 | CNNs and BOVW + local SVM | 59.58 | 63.31 | – | Paper | – | 2018 | no code linked | report |
| 29 | RAN (ResNet-18+) | 59.5 | - | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2019 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 30 | Ensemble with Shared Representations (ESR-9) | 59.3 | - | – | Paper | Code | 2020 | 1 of 3 ran · 2 unverified | report |
| 31 | ViT-tiny | 58.28 | – | Paper | – | 2022 | no code linked | report | |
| 32 | Weighted-Loss | 58.0 | - | – | Paper | Code | 2017 | linked, not harvested | report |
| 33 | ViT-base | 57.99 | – | Paper | – | 2022 | no code linked | report | |
| 34 | SL+ SSL in-painting-pl + 20% train (B0) | 55.36 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 35 | SL+ SSL puzzling + 20% train (B0) | 54.98 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 36 | LResNet50E-IR | 53.925 | ✓ | Paper | – | 2020 | no code linked | report | |
| 37 | SL + 20% train (B0) | 52.46 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 38 | ResEmoteNet | 72.93 | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 39 | EmoAffectNet | 66.49 | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2022 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 40 | Emotion-GCN | 66.46 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 41 | FaceBehaviorNet | 65.40 | ✓ | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | |
| 42 | Ada-DF | 65.34 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 43 | EAC | 65.32 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 0 of 1 ran · 1 unverified | report | |
| 44 | PAENet | 65.29 | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2019 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 45 | DACL | 65.20 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 46 | FerNeXt | 64.77 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 47 | CPG | 63.57 | ✓ | Paper | Code | 2019 | 2 of 4 ran · 2 unverified | report | |
| 48 | Ad-Corre | 63.36 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 49 | CAKE | 61.7 | – | Paper | – | 2018 | no code linked | report | |
| 50 | Facial Motion Prior Network | 61.52 | – | Paper | Code | 2019 | linked, not harvested | report |
All 50 rows shown. 50 link to a paper page on this site; 13 are marked as using additional training data in the archive. No GitHub stars are tracked; "Code" is the first repository the archive lists for the row. The archive carries no row tags, review links or community-submitted rows for this table; none are shown. archive 2025-07-28
Syntology Ran reads "N of M ran · U unverified": of the M code samples Syntology harvested from repositories linked to that row's paper (joined by arXiv id), N executed on a synthesized input and the other U = M−N are unverified (harvested, no recorded run). It counts code from repositories linked to that row's paper, not this result: the row's number was not reproduced and nothing here is a correctness claim. The other cell texts mean no graph line for the row: "linked, not harvested" (the archive links code, Syntology has not harvested it), "no code linked" (no code link in the archive), "not matched" (the row's paper URL matched no paper on this site). 4 rows have a graph line, from 4 distinct papers; 3 rows (3 papers) have at least one sample that ran. Counting each paper once: Syntology ran 10 of 22 samples; 12 unverified. Separately, 1 of those 22 are pointer-only (licence): the site points at that code rather than redistributing it, a licence property recorded for ran and unverified samples alike; each cell's tooltip carries the row's own pointer-only count. Read from the graph 2026-09-24. Per-sample status is on the paper page.
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