arXiv:2609.13255v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Facial state analysis plays a crucial role in understanding human expressions, psychological modeling, and human computer interaction. Traditional unim...
By Xuri Ge, Tianshuo Zhang, Ruihan Li, Hui Ye, Kaiwen Zheng, Junchen Fu, Da Huo, Joemon M. Jose, Hu Han
arXiv:2608. 11367v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating human gaze targets from images in-the-wild is an important and formidable task.
By Xu Cao, Houze Yang, Vipin Gunda, Zhongyi Zhou, Tianyu Xu, Adarsh Kowdle, Inki Kim, James M. Rehg
arXiv:2609.00846v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rising prevalence of psychological disorders necessitates effective emotion monitoring, yet current methods relying on facial or physiological sign...
By Xiangyu Shen, Feiyang Deng, Zijian Dai, Aibin Chen, Jizheng Yi, Jie Li, Hongbo Jiang
The paper presents a method for emotion recognition in virtual reality where head‑mounted displays occlude the upper face. By fusing lower‑face video with electromyography (EMG) signals from the occluded upper face, the authors achieve a 51% macro‑F1 score across seven emotional categories, outperforming image‑only and EMG‑only baselines. A new synchronized multimodal dataset from 20 participants is introduced and will be shared under an ethical‑use agreement.
By Birgit Nierula, Karam Tomotaki-Dawoud, Mert Akguel, Mustafa Tevfik Lafci, David Przewozny, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert, Sebastian Bosse
HUG‑VIS is a unified multimodal benchmark for human‑centered visual intelligence, comprising 8,400 half‑body videos of 30 professional actors performing 280 emotion‑action prompts in Mandarin. The dataset provides synchronized video, audio, text, and alpha mattes for four tasks—human emotion recognition, video generation, voice cloning, and video matting—allowing evaluation of both open‑ and closed‑source models under a zero‑shot protocol. Results reveal that linguistic cues dominate emotion recognition, visual affect is weakest, and that automatic metrics and human judgments diverge in generation and cloning tasks, while motion‑related boundary fidelity remains a key challenge for matting.
By Fei Ma, Zebang Cheng, Minghui Li, Hongbo Xu, Yuyong Tan, Yihua Shao, Hanling Wang, Zhou Liu, Yuqing Gao, Dong Wang, Long Ma, Laizhong Cui, Nicu Sebe, Qi Tian
EgoHRV is a method that estimates heart rate variability (HRV) and heart rate (HR) from the gaze cameras in egocentric headsets. It uses a 3D backbone and a low–high decomposition module to extract the blood volume pulse signal from gaze video, and aligns frequency‑domain representations of contact‑based and camera‑derived signals through cross‑domain pretraining. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy for HR and HRV estimation and, when integrated into EgoExo4D’s proficiency estimator, improves accuracy by 17.8%.
Estimating human gaze targets from images in-the-wild is an important and formidable task. Existing approaches primarily employ brittle, multi-stage pipelines that require explicit inputs, like head bounding boxes and human pose, in order to identify the subject of gaze analysis.
arXiv:2607. 09417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ambivalence and hesitancy are subtle behavioral states that are expressed through a combination of verbal content, facial behavior, visual context, and acoustic cues.
By Hyein Park, Namho Kim, Junhwa Kim
arXiv:2608. 15999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic emotion assessment can benefit from combining neural and behavioral signals, but many multimodal approaches rely on separate, modality-specific feature-extraction pipelines before fusion.
By Stefanos Gkikas, Eric Nichols, Christian Arzate Cruz, Randy Gomez
OpenSAL360 is an open‑source platform that enables scalable, low‑cost collection of 360° video saliency data using only a standard screen, mouse, and internet connection. It bypasses the need for VR headsets, allowing parallel data collection from crowdsourced assessors. The authors validated the protocol against seven VR eye‑tracking datasets, performed ablation studies, and released a new dataset of 500 omnidirectional videos annotated by over 2,000 assessors, the largest in the field to date.
By Alexey Bryncev, Andrey Moskalenko, Kira Shilovskaya, Ivan Kosmynin, Dmitriy Vatolin
arXiv:2607. 03581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of facial masks, accelerated by COVID-19 and mandated in security-sensitive settings, has exposed limitations of conventional face recognition systems.
By Dana A Abdullah
arXiv:2607. 14683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding driver emotion and state is critical for the next generation of intelligent in-cabin systems that ensure safety and enhance human-vehicle interaction.
By Hao Yang, Yanyan Zhao, Kewei Zhao, Hongbo Zhang, Tian Zheng, Yusheng Liu, Xing Fu, Bichen Wang, Yu Zhang, Hao He, Zhen Wu, Xuda Zhi, Yongbo Huang, Bing Qin