Geometric Graph Representation with Learnable Graph Structure and Adaptive AU Constraint for Micro-Expression Recognition
Wei, Jinsheng; Peng, Wei; Lu, Guanming; Li, Yante; Yan, Jingjie; Zhao, Guoying (2023-12-06)
IEEE
06.12.2023
J. Wei, W. Peng, G. Lu, Y. Li, J. Yan and G. Zhao, "Geometric Graph Representation With Learnable Graph Structure and Adaptive AU Constraint for Micro-Expression Recognition," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1343-1357, July-Sept. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2023.3340016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-202403212377
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Abstract
Micro-expression recognition (MER) holds significance in uncovering hidden emotions. Most works take image sequences as input and cannot effectively explore ME information because subtle ME-related motions are easily submerged in unrelated information. Instead, the facial landmark is a lowdimensional and compact modality, which achieves lower computational cost and potentially concentrates on ME-related movement features. However, the discriminability of facial landmarks for MER is unclear. Thus, this paper investigates the contribution of facial landmarks and proposes a novel framework to efficiently recognize MEs with facial landmarks. Firstly, a geometric twostream graph network is constructed to aggregate the low-order and high-order geometric movement information from facial landmarks to obtain discriminative ME representation. Secondly, a self-learning fashion is introduced to automatically model the dynamic relationship between nodes even long-distance nodes. Furthermore, an adaptive action unit loss is proposed to reasonably build a strong correlation between landmarks, facial action units and MEs. Notably, this work provides a novel idea with much higher efficiency to promote MER, only utilizing graphbased geometric features. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves competitive performance with a significantly reduced computational cost. Furthermore, facial landmarks significantly contribute to MER and are worth further study for high-efficient ME analysis.
Micro-expression recognition (MER) holds significance in uncovering hidden emotions. Most works take image sequences as input and cannot effectively explore ME information because subtle ME-related motions are easily submerged in unrelated information. Instead, the facial landmark is a lowdimensional and compact modality, which achieves lower computational cost and potentially concentrates on ME-related movement features. However, the discriminability of facial landmarks for MER is unclear. Thus, this paper investigates the contribution of facial landmarks and proposes a novel framework to efficiently recognize MEs with facial landmarks. Firstly, a geometric twostream graph network is constructed to aggregate the low-order and high-order geometric movement information from facial landmarks to obtain discriminative ME representation. Secondly, a self-learning fashion is introduced to automatically model the dynamic relationship between nodes even long-distance nodes. Furthermore, an adaptive action unit loss is proposed to reasonably build a strong correlation between landmarks, facial action units and MEs. Notably, this work provides a novel idea with much higher efficiency to promote MER, only utilizing graphbased geometric features. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves competitive performance with a significantly reduced computational cost. Furthermore, facial landmarks significantly contribute to MER and are worth further study for high-efficient ME analysis.
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