Automatic pain assessment from facial video remains challenging due to the spatial heterogeneity of pain-related facial cues. This study proposes ReFace, a spatial reorganization pipeline that divides facial input into four spatial quadrants before tokenization, rather than processing the entire face as a single region.
arXiv:2509. 16727v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated pain assessment from facial expressions is crucial for non-communicative patient.
arXiv:2608. 11050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning systems perform mainly within the 2D for a single image domain and take the face as a single-dimension representation, losing sight of the 3D anatomy of sheep and cross-landmark spatial relationships that are intrinsic to the clinically proven Sheep Pain Facial Expression Scale (SPFES).
Automatic pain localization, which involves identifying the anatomical origin of pain from peripheral physiological signals without patient self-report, is a clinically critical but largely unaddressed problem, particularly for non-verbal patients. This paper presents a systematic comparison of classical feature engineering and deep sequence learning for subject-independent three-class pain localization using the AI4Pain 2026 Challenge dataset, which comprises four synchronously recorded wearable modalities: electrodermal activity, blood volume pulse, respiration, and peripheral oxygen saturation recorded from 65 participants under controlled TENS-induced pain.
arXiv:2608. 08873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is an important task that has significant implications across various fields such as biometrics, health, and human-computer interaction.
Feature Reconfiguration With Visual Prior for Medical Lesion Segmentation proposes FreNet, a framework that reconfigures images and features before and during encoding to improve lesion segmentation. It introduces an Implicit Prior Neural Network that uses a visual prior from SAM to suppress background responses, and a Dual-domain Feature Reconfiguration module that decouples features in frequency and spatial domains to better handle diverse lesion morphology. Experiments on nine benchmarks across three imaging modalities show FreNet outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods, achieving a 5.0% Dice improvement over the best prior method on the ETIS dataset.
The paper introduces FreNet, a feature reconfiguration framework that incorporates visual priors for medical lesion segmentation. FreNet performs pixel‑level reconfiguration before encoding using an Implicit Prior Neural Network (IPNN) that leverages SAM, and feature‑level reconfiguration during encoding via a Dual‑domain Feature Reconfiguration (DFR) module, which includes a Frequency Decoupling Module (FDM) and a Spatial Localization Module (SLM). Experiments on nine benchmarks across three imaging modalities show that FreNet outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods, achieving a 5.0% Dice improvement over the best baseline on the ETIS dataset and a 7.2% improvement over SAM.
arXiv:2608. 10442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic stress detection from facial video offers a practical path to non-intrusive affect monitoring, yet existing video-based approaches commonly decompose full recordings into short temporal windows before classification.
UNWIND is a facial‑video framework that detects stress by treating an entire recording as a single input, avoiding the need for temporal windowing or segmentation. It folds the video’s temporal dimension into the channel dimension of a 2‑D spatial representation and processes it with an asymmetric‑attention architecture. Experiments on a 58‑subject stress dataset show that using all 3,600 frames (stride τ = 1) yields a 69.73 % accuracy, comparable to the best 70.02 % accuracy at τ = 15, while computational cost varies from 12.48 to 348.78 GFLOPs.
arXiv:2603. 11625v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While specialized Medical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in interpreting 2D and 3D medical modalities, their deployment for 3D volumetric data remains constrained by significant computational inefficiencies.
The paper presents Test-Time Adaptation via Cache Personalization (TTA‑CaP), a gradient‑free, cache‑based method that personalizes vision‑language models for facial expression recognition in videos. TTA‑CaP uses three complementary caches—a personalized static cache, a positive target cache, and a negative target cache—controlled by a tri‑gate mechanism to prevent corruption and provide robust subject‑matched evidence. Experiments on BioVid, StressID, and BAH datasets show that TTA‑CaP outperforms state‑of‑the‑art test‑time adaptation methods while keeping computational and memory overhead low.
arXiv:2607. 16287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have enabled photorealistic novel-view synthesis of 3D scenes and, in the facial domain, have been extended to reconstruct and animate 3D face models from a small number of images.
arXiv:2608. 04515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Slice-based MLLMs leverage mature 2D encoders by representing 3D volumes as sequences of 2D slices.