Facial Action Unit Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

4 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

21 shown of 21 papers with code (96 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Multitask Emotion Recognition with Incomplete Labels
  10 Feb 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 7 samples · 5 unverified
  We use the soft labels and the ground truth to train the student model.
• GPT as Psychologist? Preliminary Evaluations for GPT-4V on Visual Affective Computing
  9 Mar 2024 2 repositories listed
  In conclusion, this paper provides valuable insights into the potential applications and challenges of MLLMs in human-centric computing.
• Multi-scale Promoted Self-adjusting Correlation Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection
  15 Aug 2023 2 repositories listed
  Anatomically, there are innumerable correlations between AUs, which contain rich information and are vital for AU detection.
• Learning Multi-dimensional Edge Feature-based AU Relation Graph for Facial Action Unit Recognition
  2 May 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 7 of 7 samples · 0 unverified
  While the relationship between a pair of AUs can be complex and unique, existing approaches fail to specifically and explicitly represent such cues for each pair of AUs in each facial display.
• Pre-training strategies and datasets for facial representation learning
  30 Mar 2021 2 repositories listed
  Recent work on Deep Learning in the area of face analysis has focused on supervised learning for specific tasks of interest (e.
• Linear Disentangled Representation Learning for Facial Actions
  11 Jan 2017 2 repositories listed
  Limited annotated data available for the recognition of facial expression and action units embarrasses the training of deep networks, which can learn disentangled invariant features.
• Deep Region and Multi-Label Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection
  1 Jun 2016 2 repositories listed
  Region learning (RL) and multi-label learning (ML) have recently attracted increasing attentions in the field of facial Action Unit (AU) detection.
• Facial Action Unit Detection by Adaptively Constraining Self-Attention and Causally Deconfounding Sample
  2 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Specifically, we explore the mechanism of self-attention weight distribution, in which the self-attention weight distribution of each AU is regarded as spatial distribution and is adaptively learned under the constraint…
• Norface: Improving Facial Expression Analysis by Identity Normalization
  22 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  First, the carefully designed normalization network struggles to directly remove the above task-irrelevant noise, by maintaining facial expression consistency but normalizing all original images to a common identity…
• Representation Learning and Identity Adversarial Training for Facial Behavior Understanding
  15 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  To fill this gap, we first show that subject identity in AU datasets creates shortcut learning for the model and leads to sub-optimal solutions to AU predictions.
• Multi-scale Dynamic and Hierarchical Relationship Modeling for Facial Action Units Recognition
  9 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 9 of 11 samples · 2 unverified
  Human facial action units (AUs) are mutually related in a hierarchical manner, as not only they are associated with each other in both spatial and temporal domains but also AUs located in the same/close facial regions…
• AUFormer: Vision Transformers are Parameter-Efficient Facial Action Unit Detectors
  7 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Facial Action Units (AU) is a vital concept in the realm of affective computing, and AU detection has always been a hot research topic.
• Learning Contrastive Feature Representations for Facial Action Unit Detection
  9 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  For the Facial Action Unit (AU) detection task, accurately capturing the subtle facial differences between distinct AUs is essential for reliable detection.
• FG-Net: Facial Action Unit Detection with Generalizable Pyramidal Features
  23 Aug 2023 1 repository listed
  The proposed FG-Net achieves a strong generalization ability for heatmap-based AU detection thanks to the generalizable and semantic-rich features extracted from the pre-trained generative model.
• Automated Detection of Equine Facial Action Units
  17 Feb 2021 1 repository listed
  To automate parts of this process, we propose a Deep Learning-based method to detect EquiFACS units automatically from images.
• JÂA-Net: Joint Facial Action Unit Detection and Face Alignment via Adaptive Attention
  18 Mar 2020 1 repository listed
  Moreover, to extract precise local features, we propose an adaptive attention learning module to refine the attention map of each AU adaptively.
• Multi-label Co-regularization for Semi-supervised Facial Action Unit Recognition
  24 Oct 2019 1 repository listed
  In this work, we propose a semi-supervised approach for AU recognition utilizing a large number of web face images without AU labels and a relatively small face dataset with AU annotations inspired by the co-training…
• Self-Supervised Representation Learning From Videos for Facial Action Unit Detection
  1 Jun 2019 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we aim to learn discriminative representation for facial action unit (AU) detection from large amount of videos without manual annotations.
• Unconstrained Facial Action Unit Detection via Latent Feature Domain
  25 Mar 2019 1 repository listed
  Due to the combination of source AU-related information and target AU-free information, the latent feature domain with transferred source label can be learned by maximizing the target-domain AU detection performance.
• Deep Adaptive Attention for Joint Facial Action Unit Detection and Face Alignment
  15 Mar 2018 1 repository listed
  Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks since facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meaningful local features for AU detection.
• Multi-View Dynamic Facial Action Unit Detection
  25 Apr 2017 1 repository listed
  We then move to the novel setup of the FERA 2017 Challenge, in which we propose a multi-view extension of our approach that operates by first predicting the viewpoint from which the video was taken, and then evaluating…

Syntology lines on 3 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.