Micro Expression Recognition

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• 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.
• Dual-stream shallow networks for facial micro-expression recognition
  26 Aug 2019 2 repositories listed
  Micro-expressions are spontaneous, brief and subtle facial muscle movements that exposes underlying emotions.
• Enriched Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Network for Facial Micro-Expression Recognition
  22 May 2018 2 repositories listed
  Facial micro-expression (ME) recognition has posed a huge challenge to researchers for its subtlety in motion and limited databases.
• MOL: Joint Estimation of Micro-Expression, Optical Flow, and Landmark via Transformer-Graph-Style Convolution
  17 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  In particular, we propose a novel F5C block composed of fully-connected convolution and channel correspondence convolution to directly extract local-global features from a sequence of raw frames, without the prior…
• Inference-Time Gaze Refinement for Micro-Expression Recognition: Enhancing Event-Based Eye Tracking with Motion-Aware Post-Processing
  14 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Event-based eye tracking holds significant promise for fine-grained cognitive state inference, offering high temporal resolution and robustness to motion artifacts, critical features for decoding subtle mental states…
• MELLM: Exploring LLM-Powered Micro-Expression Understanding Enhanced by Subtle Motion Perception
  11 May 2025 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we propose a novel Micro-Expression Large Language Model (MELLM), which incorporates a subtle facial motion perception strategy with the strong inference capabilities of MLLMs, representing the first…
• A Benchmark for Incremental Micro-expression Recognition
  31 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  To respond to the requirement of adapting to new data while retaining previously learned knowledge, we introduce the first benchmark specifically designed for incremental micro-expression recognition.
• Three-Stream Temporal-Shift Attention Network Based on Self-Knowledge Distillation for Micro-Expression Recognition
  25 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  Secondly, we employ efficient channel attention modules in the local-spatial stream to make the network focus on facial regions that are highly relevant to micro-expressions.
• Hierarchical Space-Time Attention for Micro-Expression Recognition
  6 May 2024 1 repository listed
  Specifically, we first process ME video frames and special frames or data parallelly by our cascaded Unimodal Space-Time Attention (USTA) to establish connections between subtle facial movements and specific facial…
• 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…
• 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.
• Micron-BERT: BERT-based Facial Micro-Expression Recognition
  6 Apr 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  By incorporating these components into an end-to-end deep network, the proposed μ-BERT significantly outperforms all previous work in various micro-expression tasks.
• MMNet: Muscle motion-guided network for micro-expression recognition
  14 Jan 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  By adding the position embeddings of the face generated by PC module at the end of the two branches, the PC module can help to add position information to facial muscle motion pattern features for the MER.
• Seeking Salient Facial Regions for Cross-Database Micro-Expression Recognition
  30 Nov 2021 1 repository listed
  To solve these problems, this paper proposes a novel Transfer Group Sparse Regression method, namely TGSR, which aims to 1) optimize the measurement and better alleviate the difference between the source and target…
• ICE-GAN: Identity-aware and Capsule-Enhanced GAN with Graph-based Reasoning for Micro-Expression Recognition and Synthesis
  9 May 2020 1 repository listed
  Micro-expressions are reflections of people's true feelings and motives, which attract an increasing number of researchers into the study of automatic facial micro-expression recognition.
• A Novel Apex-Time Network for Cross-Dataset Micro-Expression Recognition
  7 Apr 2019 1 repository listed
  As researchers working on such topics are moving to learn from the nature of micro-expression, the practice of using deep learning techniques has evolved from processing the entire video clip of micro-expression to the…
• Spontaneous Facial Micro-Expression Recognition using 3D Spatiotemporal Convolutional Neural Networks
  27 Mar 2019 1 repository listed
  This paper proposes two 3D-CNN methods: MicroExpSTCNN and MicroExpFuseNet, for spontaneous facial micro-expression recognition by exploiting the spatiotemporal information in CNN framework.
• Shallow Triple Stream Three-dimensional CNN (STSTNet) for Micro-expression Recognition
  10 Feb 2019 1 repository listed
  In the recent year, state-of-the-art for facial micro-expression recognition have been significantly advanced by deep neural networks.
• Micro-Attention for Micro-Expression recognition
  6 Nov 2018 1 repository listed
  The existence of micro expression in small-local areas on face and limited size of available databases still constrain the recognition accuracy on such emotional facial behavior.

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