Facial Emotion Recognition

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

6 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

27 shown of 27 papers with code (82 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.

• Self-attention fusion for audiovisual emotion recognition with incomplete data
  26 Jan 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 8 samples · 6 unverified
  In this paper, we consider the problem of multimodal data analysis with a use case of audiovisual emotion recognition.
• Facial Emotion Recognition: State of the Art Performance on FER2013
  8 May 2021 2 repositories listed
  Facial emotion recognition (FER) is significant for human-computer interaction such as clinical practice and behavioral description.
• Facial Emotion Recognition Using Transfer Learning in the Deep CNN
  27 Apr 2021 2 repositories listed
  Human facial emotion recognition (FER) has attracted the attention of the research community for its promising applications.
• Convolutional Neural Network Hyperparameters optimization for Facial Emotion Recognition
  25 Mar 2021 2 repositories listed
  This paper presents a method of optimizing the hyperparameters of a convolutional neural network in order to increase accuracy in the context of facial emotion recognition.
• EfficientFER: EfficientNetv2 Based Deep Learning Approach for Facial Expression Recognition
  2 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Facial expression recognition (FER), aiming to classify human emotions automatically, is a significant problem in computer vision.
• EmoNeXt: an Adapted ConvNeXt for Facial Emotion Recognition
  14 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Facial expressions play a crucial role in human communication serving as a powerful and impactful means to express a wide range of emotions.
• A novel deep learning approach for facial emotion recognition: application to detecting emotional responses in elderly individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
  30 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Facial expressions are a critical form of nonverbal communication, conveying a wide range of emotions.
• MTCAE-DFER: Multi-Task Cascaded Autoencoder for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition
  25 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper expands the cascaded network branch of the autoencoder-based multi-task learning (MTL) framework for dynamic facial expression recognition, namely Multi-Task Cascaded Autoencoder for Dynamic Facial Expression…
• Swin Transformer with Enhanced Dropout and Layer-wise Unfreezing for Facial Expression Recognition in Mental Health Detection
  2 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  This study demonstrates a practical version of the Swin transformer in FER models for detecting and early mental health intervention.
• Improvement in Facial Emotion Recognition using Synthetic Data Generated by Diffusion Model
  16 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we tackle the issue of data imbalance by incorporating synthetic data augmentation and leveraging the ResEmoteNet model to enhance the overall performance on facial emotion recognition task.
• Regularized Xception for facial expression recognition with extra training data and step decay learning rate
  17 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  Despite extensive research on facial expression recognition, achieving the highest level of accuracy remains challenging.
• ResEmoteNet: Bridging Accuracy and Loss Reduction in Facial Emotion Recognition
  1 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  In this work, we propose ResEmoteNet, a novel deep learning architecture for facial emotion recognition designed with the combination of Convolutional, Squeeze-Excitation (SE) and Residual Networks.
• 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…
• GiMeFive: Towards Interpretable Facial Emotion Classification
  24 Feb 2024 1 repository listed
  Deep convolutional neural networks have been shown to successfully recognize facial emotions for the past years in the realm of computer vision.
• GPT-4V with Emotion: A Zero-shot Benchmark for Generalized Emotion Recognition
  7 Dec 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  To bridge this gap, we present the quantitative evaluation results of GPT-4V on 21 benchmark datasets covering 6 tasks: visual sentiment analysis, tweet sentiment analysis, micro-expression recognition, facial emotion…
• Facial Emotion Recognition Under Mask Coverage Using a Data Augmentation Technique
  3 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  The Resnet50 has demonstrated superior performance, with accuracies of 73.
• FerNeXt: Facial Expression Recognition Using ConvNeXt with Channel Attention
  20 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  The method was experimented on two large datasets: AffectNet and RAF-DB to show the proposed technique's capability.
• HTNet for micro-expression recognition
  27 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  The transformer layer is used to focus on representing local minor muscle movement with local self-attention in each area.
• ARBEx: Attentive Feature Extraction with Reliability Balancing for Robust Facial Expression Learning
  2 May 2023 1 repository listed
  We also employ learnable anchor points in the embedding space with label distributions and multi-head self-attention mechanism to optimize performance against weak predictions with reliability balancing, which is a…
• An experimental study in Real-time Facial Emotion Recognition on new 3RL dataset
  6 Apr 2023 1 repository listed
  Although real-time facial emotion recognition is a hot topic research domain in the field of human-computer interaction, state-of the-art available datasets still suffer from various problems, such as some unrelated…
• Metrics for Dataset Demographic Bias: A Case Study on Facial Expression Recognition
  28 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  One of the most prominent types of demographic bias are statistical imbalances in the representation of demographic groups in the datasets.
• A novel facial emotion recognition model using segmentation VGG-19 architecture
  24 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  CNN has shown great potential in FER tasks due to its unique feature extraction strategy compared to regular FER models.
• A proposal for Multimodal Emotion Recognition using aural transformers and Action Units on RAVDESS dataset
  30 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  Regarding the facial emotion recognizer, we extracted the Action Units of the videos and compared the performance between employing static models against sequential models.
• Evaluation of Interpretability for Deep Learning algorithms in EEG Emotion Recognition: A case study in Autism
  25 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  This study is the first to consolidate a more transparent feature-relevance calculation for a successful EEG-based facial emotion recognition using a within-subject-trained CNN in typically-developed and ASD individuals.
• Facial Emotion Recognition: A multi-task approach using deep learning
  28 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  Facial Emotion Recognition is an inherently difficult problem, due to vast differences in facial structures of individuals and ambiguity in the emotion displayed by a person.
• Facial Emotion Recognition with Noisy Multi-task Annotations
  19 Oct 2020 1 repository listed
  In our formulation, we exploit a new method to enable the emotion prediction and the joint distribution learning in a unified adversarial learning game.
• TRANSFER :- DEEP INDUCTIVE NETWORK FOR FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION
  1 Jul 2020 1 repository listed
  Deep learning using transfer learning has shown promising results in computer vision in solving the problem of lack of labeled data.

Syntology lines on 2 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.