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  1. Beyond End-to-End Black Box Mapping: An Intentional Agent Framework for Cognitive-driven Facial Reaction Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Hanzhong Zhang, Jindong Wang, Siyang SongFacial Expression RecognitionAgentic Framework

    Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK · Department of Data Science, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

  2. ResDiffFRG: Residual Diffusion for Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation

    Sep 27, 2026Shizhe Liu, Jiayan Gu, Xiangyu Kong +1Facial Expression RecognitionResidual Conditional Diffusion Model

    Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · School of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Hefei University, Hefei, China · Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

  3. Relightable 3D Avatar Reconstruction with Semantic-Adaptive Motion-Illumination Responses

    Sep 21, 2026Jiankuo Zhao, Xiangyu Zhu, Jijie Li +3Avatar ReconstructionAnimatable 3D Human Avatars

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · ZKTeco Co., Ltd.

  4. KoUniTalk: A Lightweight Articulation-Centered Korean-English 3D Talking Face Benchmark

    Sep 17, 2026Hyunjung Chung, Unsang ParkFacial Expression RecognitionHumanml3D

    Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  5. SeetaPsych v1.0: An Open-source Computer Vision Toolkit for Behavior-based Psychological Measurement

    Sep 17, 2026Jiabei Zeng, Chiqin Li, Kaizhou Li +7Facial Expression RecognitionPsychology

    Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China · Beijing Seetatech Co., Ltd., Beijing, China · Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  6. Predicting Human Disagreement for Calibrated Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition

    Sep 15, 2026Yiming Wang, Frederick W. B. Li, Jingyun WangFacial Expression RecognitionDisagreement

    Department of Computer Science, Durham University

  7. TopoRig: Topology-Agnostic Facial Rigging via Multi-Source Supervision

    Sep 14, 2026Andrew Fleet, Soroush Mehraban, Vida Adeli +2Facial Expression RecognitionDeformation

    1Queen’s University · 2Pickford AI · University of Toronto +1

  8. Multi-Level Evidence Aggregation for Robust Facial Phenotype Retrieval in Rare Genetic Disorder Prioritization

    Aug 11, 2026Alexander Hustinx, Carolin Kaffiné, Behnam Javanmardi +2PhenotypesRare Disease

    Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  9. FUSE: Frame-Unified Stress Estimation from Facial Video

    Aug 11, 2026Stefanos Gkikas, Thomas Kassiotis, Yang Guo +2Facial Expression RecognitionStress Testing

    Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · Department of Electronic Engineering Hellenic Mediterranean University Chania, Greece · Faculty of Information Science and Engineering Ocean University of China Qingdao, China

  10. RAGMesh with FaME-G2E: Long-Form Text-Driven 3D Face Generation and Editing

    Aug 10, 2026Hao Li, Ju Dai, Feng Zhou +6Blind Face RestorationFacial Expression Recognition

    State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · North China University of Technology, Beijing, China +3

  11. Sparse Attention to Emotion: Efficient Facial Emotion Recognition via Token Reduction

    Aug 9, 2026Aya Manel Zitouni, Aicha Zenakhri, Karim Haroun +1Facial Expression RecognitionFacial Images

    LIASD Laboratory, University of Paris 8, France

  12. SRE-FER: Regional residual evidence learning for mitigating local evidence dilution in fine-grained facial expression recognition

    Aug 9, 2026Jiaye Song, Ruochen Zhang, Yuliang Wang +1Facial Expression RecognitionMusculoskeletal

    Tiangong University, No. 399 Binshuixi Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China

  13. Test-Time Adaptation with Online Personalized Energy-Based Cache for Fine-Grained Video Expression Recognition

    Aug 6, 2026Masoumeh Sharafi, Muhammad Osama Zeeshan, Soufiane Belharbi +3Facial Expression RecognitionTest-Time Adaptation

    LIVIA, Department of Systems Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Canada · LIVIA, Department of Software and IT Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Canada

  14. ReMiX-MAE: Learning Missing-Channel Cross-Modal Representations from RGB-Only Clinical Facial Videos for Sympathetic-Mediated Pain Assessment

    Aug 3, 2026Nan Bi, Taoyue Wang, Lijun Yin +13D Masked AutoencodersFacial Expression Recognition

    School of Computing, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA · Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

  15. SubtleTalk: Generating Controllable Weakly-correlated Facial Dynamics for 3D Talking Heads via Residual Flow Matching

    Aug 3, 2026Chenyang Ding, Shuai Tan, Qunfen Lin +3Precise Lip SynchronizationFacial Expression Recognition

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Tencent Games Shenzhen, China

  16. Geometry-guided Emotion Modulation for Controllable and Photorealistic Emotional Talking Face Generation

    Aug 1, 2026Chenggong Hu, Shaoyin Ma, Yi Wang +3Facial Expression Recognition

  17. FIDAC: An Easy-to-use Pipeline to Extract and Interpret Interpersonal Distance From Video

    Jul 27, 2026Keshav Rastogi, Eugy Han, Jeremy N. BailensonFace Recognition ModelFacial Expression Recognition

    University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, United States · Department of Media Production, Management, and Technology, University of Florida Gainesville, FL, United States · Department of Communication, Stanford University Stanford, CA, United States

  18. Let Me Look at You: Advanced Facial Expression Modeling for Conversational Speech Synthesis

    Jul 27, 2026Yifan Hu, Shuwei He, Rui Liu +1Facial Expression RecognitionSpeech Synthesis

    Inner Mongolia University Hohhot, China · SRIBD, School of Artificial Intelligence The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, China

  19. STEER: Steerable Dyadic Head Avatars

    Jul 26, 2026Kartik Teotia, Helge Rhodin, Hyeongwoo Kim +2Facial Expression RecognitionAvatars

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

  20. ID-V2V: Identity-Preserving Video Restylization

    Jul 24, 2026Yuancheng Xu, Mingming He, Pablo Salamanca +5Video RestorationFacial Expression Recognition

    Netflix, United States of America · Eyeline Labs, United States of America · Adobe, United States of America

  21. GroupVideo: Multi-Identity Customized Text-to-Video Generation

    Jul 23, 2026Xinyang Song, Libin Wang, Jianxin Sun +4Interactive Video GenerationText-To-Video Generation Model

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and the State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  22. AUCH-Net: Action Unit-Based Consistency-Aware Hypergraph Network for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Facial Expression Recognition

    Jul 23, 2026Xinhan Qiu, Yan Yan, Rui Zhu +2Facial Expression RecognitionOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

    Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China · Fujian Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Image Understanding, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China · Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, London, EC1Y 8TZ, UK +1

  23. Explainable graph attention network for stress recognition (StressGAT) via differential action units

    Jul 23, 2026Thomas Kassiotis, Stefanos Gkikas, Nikolaos Smyrnis +1StressAffective Computing

    Department of Electronic Engineering Hellenic Mediterranean University Chania, Greece · Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · University Mental Health, Neurosciences and Precision Medicine, Research Institute “COSTAS STEFANIS” 2nd Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens, Greece +1

  24. ReFace: Reorganizing Facial Spatiotemporal Representations for Improved Pain Assessment

    Jul 22, 2026Stefanos Gkikas, Yu Fang, Christian Arzate Cruz +2Facial Expression RecognitionOne-Shot Medical Landmark Detection

    Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · BioSIS (Biosensing & Intelligent Systems) Lab Centre for Intelligent Computing and Systems University of Canberra Canberra, Australia

  25. A Unified Tokenization Framework for Pain Recognition using Heterogeneous 3D Modalities

    Jul 22, 2026Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Valentina Becchetti +3Complementary ModalitiesFacial Expression Recognition

    Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy · University of Canberra Canberra, Australia

  26. UVFaceFusion: Fast Multi-view Topologically Consistent Face Reconstruction in the Wild via UV-space Neural Fusion

    Jul 21, 2026Xin Ming, Yuxuan Han, Junhai Yong +1Blind Face RestorationFacial Expression Recognition

    School of Software and BNRist, Tsinghua University, China

  27. Spatiotemporal Facial Action Unit Detection using Twin Cycle Autoencoders for Driver Monitoring

    Jul 18, 2026Sai Sidharth DTemporal Convolutional NetworksFacial Expression Recognition

  28. AffectFuse: Cross-Task Feature Fusion with Temporal Modeling for Multi-Task Affective Behavior Analysis

    Jul 17, 2026Dipit Saha, Mohammad Raihan Rashid, Shah Mohammad Abdul Mannan +2Direct Feature FusionMultimodal Fusion

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

  29. Disentangling Model and Human Data Uncertainty in Apparent Facial Age Estimation

    Jul 17, 2026Andrei Foitos, Ivo Pascal de Jong, Matias Valdenegro-ToroUncertainty-Aware ClassificationFacial Images

    Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, NL

  30. Knowing You at First Glance: Inferring Apparent Personality from Faces

    Jul 16, 2026Shuhuan Chen, Xiangyu Zhu, Weisong Zhao +3PersonalityFacial Expression Recognition

    CBSR&MAIS, Institute of Automation, CAS, Beijing, China · Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, UCAS, Beijing, China +4

  31. Task-Specific Feature Fusion Method for Multi-Task Affective Behavior Analysis

    Jul 15, 2026Jiajun Sun, Zhe GaoDirect Feature FusionMulti--Task Learning

    Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

  32. AffectFlow-DINO: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Task Affect Estimation via Conditional Rectified Flow

    Jul 14, 2026Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Fadi Dornaika +1Facial Expression RecognitionValence-Arousal Estimation

    University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain · Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento & Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (CNR), Italy · Faculty of Data Science and Computing, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia

  33. HSEmotion Team at the 11th ABAW Challenge: Multi-Task Learning and Ambivalence/Hesitancy Video Recognition

    Jul 14, 2026Aleksei Bakin, Andrey V. SavchenkoFacial Expression RecognitionMultimodal Fusion

    Central University, Moscow, Russia · Sber AI Lab, Moscow, Russia · HSE University, Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Network Analysis, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

  34. Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic Robots

    Jul 13, 2026Zongzheng Zhang, Zi Lin, Jiawen Yang +6Facial Expression RecognitionObject Articulation

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) · Beihang University +1

  35. SVF-CR: Synchronized Visual-Facial Cross-Refinement for Multimodal Ambivalence and Hesitancy Recognition

    Jul 10, 2026Hyein Park, Namho Kim, Junhwa KimFacial Expression RecognitionAttitude

    Dept. of AI Software Convergence, Konyang University · Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)

  36. AI-guided stimuli discovery and generation to optimize facial emotion perception studies in autism

    Jul 9, 2026Kushin Mukherjee, Na Yeon Kim, Maren Wehrheim +2Autism Spectrum DisorderFacial Expression Recognition

    Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience, York University, Canada · Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA · Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, USA +2

  37. Hierarchical Classification via Cascading Feature Elimination: Application to Human Phenotype Ontology-Aligned Facial Phenotyping (FaceMesh2HPO)

    Jul 6, 2026Fabio Hellmann, Alexander Hustinx, Benjamin D. Solomon +4PhenotypesSkin Lesion Classification

    1*Chair for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence, University of Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 6a, Augsburg, 86159, Bavaria, Germany. · Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, University of Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn, 53127, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. · 3National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of2026 Health, 10 Center Dr, Bethesda, 20892, MD, United States of America.

  38. Enhancing Facial Expression Recognition in Head-Mounted Displays with Synthetic Data

    Jul 5, 2026Jianing Deng, Qiang Zhou, Jingtong HuFacial Expression RecognitionAugmented Reality

    University of Pittsburgh

  39. Attention-Guided Efficientnet Architecture For Precise Criminal Identification in Surveillance Images

    Jul 3, 2026Savitha N J, Lata B TFace Recognition ModelVideo Surveillance

    Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India

  40. See the Emotion: A Facial Emoji Proxy Modeling for EEG Emotion Recognition

    Jul 3, 2026Jingjing Hu, Guo Dan, Haofan Cheng +4Electroencephalography DecodingEmotion Recognition

    Hefei University of Technology · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center · The Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Hefei University of Technology +3

  41. Conversational Human Audio-visual Talking Dialogue Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Junhao Song, Lluis Guasch, Xilin He +8Conversational DatasetsAudio-Video Generation

    Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK · Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, UK · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE +8

  42. EmoteGPT: 3D Human Facial Expressions from Natural Language Descriptions

    Jul 2, 2026Haoran Wang, Mohit Mendiratta, Christian Theobalt +1Facial Expression Recognition3D Generative Models

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  43. MindAU: EEG-Conditioned Facial Action Unit Editing via Dual-Stream Manifold Alignment

    Jul 1, 2026Zhenhang Li, Xin Zhou, Hao Deng +1Electroencephalography DecodingFacial Expression Recognition

    Binghamton University · Massachusetts General Hospital

  44. Learning When to Listen: Gated Affect Fusion for Human Motion Prediction

    Jul 1, 2026Jingni HuangHuman Motion PredictionFacial Expression Recognition

    University of Oxford

  45. Reweighting Framewise Attention in Video Transformers for Facial Expression Understanding

    Jun 29, 2026Seongro Yoon, Donghyeon Cho, Jinsun Park +1Facial Expression RecognitionSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    Inria, Université Côte d’Azur, France · Hanyang University, South Korea · Pusan National University, South Korea

  46. FacePlex: Toward Natural Full-Duplex Conversational Avatars

    Jun 29, 2026Habin Lim, Hah Min Lew, Jae-Ho Lee +4Precise Lip SynchronizationFull-Duplex Speech Models

    Korea University · Klleon

  47. REPAIR-Bench: A Benchmark for Robot Error Perception And Interaction Recovery

    Jun 29, 2026Giuliano Pioldi, Yashika Batra, Arman Ibrayeva +4Human-Robot InteractionRobot Failures

    Cornell University Cornell Tech New York, NY

  48. KM-Speaker: Keypoint-Based Style Control for High-Quality Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation and Dialogue Localization

    Jun 26, 2026Arthur Josi, Emeline Got, Abdallah Dib +2Precise Lip SynchronizationFacial Expression Recognition

    Ecole de Technologie Sup´erieure · Ubisoft LaForge

  49. STAG: Spatio-temporal Evolving Structural Representation of Action Units for Micro-expression Recognition

    Jun 26, 2026Nandani Sharma, Varun Sharma, Dinesh SinghFacial Expression RecognitionSpatiotemporal Representations

    Vision Intelligence and Machine Learning (VIML) Group, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India · Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhagalpur, Sabour Rd, Bhagalpur, 813210, Bihar, India

  50. MindFlow: Harmonizing Cognitive Semantics and Acoustic Dynamics for Facial Animation Generation in Dyadic Conversations

    Jun 26, 2026Hejia Chen, Haoxian Zhang, Xu He +4Facial Expression RecognitionHuman Motion Generation

    Beihang University · Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology · Zhongguancun Laboratory

  51. TraMP-LLaMA: Generative Interpretability with Decoupled Instruction Tuning for Facial Expression Quality Assessment

    Jun 25, 2026Shuchao Duan, Alan Whone, Hossein Rahmani +2Facial Expression RecognitionMultimodal Evaluation

    School of Computer Science University of Bristol Bristol, UK · Translational Health Sciences University of Bristol Bristol, UK · School of Computing and Communications Lancaster University Lancaster, UK

  52. Expresso-AI: Explainable Video-Based Deep Learning Models for Depression Diagnosis

    Jun 24, 2026Felipe Moreno, Sharifa Alghowinem, Hae Won Park +1DepressionInterpretability

    Media Lab MIT Cambridge, USA

  53. SAC2^2-Net: Semantic Anchoring and Complementary-Consensus Fusion for Multimodal Micro-Expression Recognition

    Jun 24, 2026Xuepeng Zheng, Tong Chen, Chaoping Gui +3Multimodal FusionFacial Expression Recognition

    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China · Faculty of psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China · Chongqing Key Laboratory of Generic Technology and System of Service Robots, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China +1

  54. Interpretable Uncertainty Routing Separating Emotion Ambiguity from Distribution Shift in Facial Expression Recognition

    Jun 21, 2026Keito Inoshita, Takato UenoFacial Expression RecognitionDistribution Shifts

    Faculty of Business and Commerce, Kansai University, Suita, Japan · Data Science and AI Innovation Research Promotion Center, Shiga University, Hikone, Japan · Graduate School of Data Science, Shiga University, Hikone, Japan

  55. Customizing Video Portraits via Identity-ActionDecoupling

    Jun 21, 2026Junxiong Lin, Haoran Wang, Xinji Mai +4Text-To-Video Generation ModelFacial Expression Recognition

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · The University of Hong Kong · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University

  56. Chehre: An Emoji-Prompted Dataset to Explore Perceptual Flexibility in Video Language Models

    Jun 19, 2026Bita Azari, Zoe Stanley, Avneet Batra +4Facial Expression RecognitionFacial Images

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

  57. Towards Transparent Mental Health Insights: An Explainable AI Model for Career-Related Depression and Anxiety Among University Students Using Structured Data

    Jun 19, 2026Arsham Azam, Rasikh Ali, Tayyaba Farhat +1Mental HealthDepression

    Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, The Superior University, Lahore 54600, Pakistan · Intelligent Data Visual Computing Research (IDVCR), Lahore 54600, Pakistan · Information Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 12571, Saudi Arabia

  58. NeoLoc-68: End-to-end 68-point neonatal facial landmark localisation in neonatal clinical environments

    Jun 18, 2026Abdullah Bin-Obaid, Maria M. Cobo, Rebeccah Slater +2One-Shot Medical Landmark DetectionFacial Expression Recognition

    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Colegio de Ciencias Biologicas y Ambientales, Quito, Ecuador

  59. CUPID: Reconstructing UV Texture Maps for Interpretable Person-of-Interest Deepfake Detection

    Jun 18, 2026Giovanni Affatato, Sara Mandelli, Edoardo Daniele Cannas +2Deepfake DetectionAuthenticity

    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy

  60. EmoZone-Talker: Regional Semantic Control of Audio-Driven 3DGS Talking Heads via Facial Action Units

    Jun 14, 2026Tingting Chen, Shaojun Wang, Huaye Zhang +2Facial Expression RecognitionCo-Speech Gesture Generation

    China University of Petroleum (East China)