arXiv:2606. 28083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Micro-expression recognition is challenging due to subtle and short-lived facial muscle movements.
By Nandani Sharma, Varun Sharma, Dinesh Singh
In this paper, we present the solution developed by our team, XInsight Lab, which achieved first place in Track 3 of the 4th EI-MIGA-IJCAI Challenge with a test accuracy of 0. 76923.
arXiv:2609.31285v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Facial micro-expressions are spontaneous, brief, and subtle facial movements that reveal suppressed emotions in high-stakes environments. In contrast t...
By Huai-Qian Khor, Mengting Wei, Yante Li, Chu Kiong Loo, Guoying Zhao
The paper introduces MiRA, a plug‑in framework that reweights framewise attention in Vision Transformer video models to better capture subtle facial dynamics for expression recognition. MiRA computes frame‑level confidence and intra‑frame concentration from self‑attention maps, redistributing attention toward localized facial cues without adding trainable parameters. Two modes—an exact post‑softmax redistribution and a lightweight flashLite pre‑softmax approximation—are proposed, and experiments on facial expression recognition benchmarks show consistent gains over strong ViT baselines.
By Seongro Yoon, Donghyeon Cho, Jinsun Park, Fran\c{c}ois Br\'emond
arXiv:2607. 20820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Body-based emotion recognition is important for real-time affective systems, but graph-based skeleton models can be computationally expensive.
By Christian Arzate Cruz, Stefanos Gkikas, Houshyar Asadi
The paper introduces the Sequential Spatio-Temporal Attention Network (SSTAN), a Transformer-based architecture that replaces traditional Graph Convolutional Networks for sign language recognition. SSTAN uses a hierarchical, stacked design with Spatial Multi-Head Attention to model joint relationships within frames and Temporal Multi-Head Attention to capture long-range dependencies across frames, eliminating the need for predefined skeletal graphs. Experiments on large-scale datasets (WLASL, JSL, KSL) show that SSTAN, trained from scratch, achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance in fingerspelling categories and outperforms other skeleton‑only methods on WLASL, highlighting its data efficiency and ability to learn complex spatio‑temporal patterns.
By Koki Hirooka, Abu Saleh Musa Miah, Tatsuya Murakami, Md. Al Mehedi Hasan, Yong Seok Hwang, Jungpil Shin
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
arXiv:2606. 25606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Given the widespread prevalence of depression and its consequential impact on individuals and society, it is crucial to obtain objective measures for early diagnosis and intervention.
By Felipe Moreno, Sharifa Alghowinem, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal
arXiv:2608.21022v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Micro-actions are subtle, short, low-amplitude body movements, such as a fidgeting hand or a slight head tilt, that humans perform with little consciou...
By Fengshun Wang, Jin'ang Han, Zhigang Tu
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:2607. 16322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Micro-gesture recognition demands the detection of fleeting, spatially localized movements that are frequently overwhelmed by dominant static appearances and background noise.
By Taorui Wang, Wei Xia, Hui Ma, Zijia Song, Jiayu Zhang, Zeheng Wang, Yong Xu, Zitong Yu
Precise Event Spotting (PES) requires distinguishing visually similar yet semantically distinct adjacent frames, making it fundamentally different from image classification and coarse action recognition. Although self-distillation methods such as DINO have shown strong representation learning ability in images, we find that directly applying them to PES is ineffective: without supervised guidance, subtle but crucial motion cues are often suppressed as noise, leading to representations that are insensitive to precise event boundaries.