AWESOME-FER

:memo: :high_brightness: Top conferences & Journals focused on Facial expression recognition (FER)/ Facial action unit (FAU)

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:high_brightness: Datasets

:high_brightness: Challenges

:high_brightness: Related Reviews

:high_brightness: Related Conferences and Journals

:high_brightness: Facial Expression Recognition (FER)

:high_brightness: Facial Action Unit Recognition

:high_brightness: Affective Level Estimation

Datasets

• Jaffe
• FER-2013
• MMI Facial Expression Database
• Cohn-Kanade Expression Database
• Oulu-CASIA NIR&VIS facial expression database
• Multi-PIE
• Binghamton University 3D Facial Expression Database (BU-3DFE)
• Real-world Affective Faces (RAF) Database
• AffectNet
• EmotioNet Database
• The Radboud Faces Database (RaFD)
• Aff-Wild data
• A novel database of Children’s Spontaneous Facial Expressions (LIRIS-CSE)
• FEAFA: A Well-Annotated Dataset for
 Facial Expression Analysis and 3D Facial Animation
• Facial Expression Research Group Database (FERG-DB)
• Emotions In Context dataset (EMOTIC)
• Denver Intensity of Spontaneous Facial Action Database (DISFA)
• The MPLab GENKI Database (GENKI-4K)
• AFFECTIVA-MIT Facial Expression Dataset (AM-FED)
• The UNBC-McMaster Shoulder Pain Expression Archive Database (UNBC)

Challenges

• Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (EmotiW) @ ICMI
• Group-level happiness intensity recognition @ ICMI
• Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge (MuSe) @ ACM MM
• Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC) @ ACM MM
• Large Scale Emotion Recognition and Analysis (LERA) @ FG
• Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge (FERA) @ FG
• One-Minute Gradual-Emotion Behavior Challenge @ IJCNN
• EmotioNet Challenge
• Real Versus Fake Expressed Emotions @ ICCV
• Affect-in-the-Wild Challenge @ CVPR
• Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) @ FG
• EmoPain Challenge: Pain-related Behavior Analysis @ FG

Related Reviews

• (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 20) Deep Facial Expression Recognition: A Survey [paper]
• (ACM Computing Surveys 19) Facial Expression Analysis under Partial Occlusion: A Survey [paper]
• (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 19) Deep Learning for Human Affect Recognition: Insights and New Developments [paper]
• (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 18) Survey on Emotional Body Gesture Recognition [paper]
• (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 17) Automatic Analysis of Facial Actions: A Survey [paper]
• (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 16) Survey on RGB, 3D, Thermal, and Multimodal Approaches for Facial Expression Recognition: History, Trends, and Affect-Related Applications[paper]
• (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 15) Automatic Analysis of Facial Affect: A Survey of Registration, Representation, and Recognition [paper]
• (Image and Vision Computing 13) Categorical and dimensional affect analysis in continuous input: Current trends and future directions [paper]
• (FG 11) Emotion representation, analysis and synthesis in continuous space: A survey [paper]

Related Conferences and Journals

:small_orange_diamond: Conferences

CVPR,ICCV,ECCV,FG,ACM MM,AAAI,IJCAI,BMVC,ACCV,WACV,ICMI,ICPR,ICIP,ACII,ICB,BIBM,ICASSP

:small_orange_diamond: Journals

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Pattern Recognition, International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatic, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Image and Vision Computing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Access, IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Neurocomputing, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, Pattern Recognition Letters IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

:small_orange_diamond: Workshops

• IJCAI Affective Computing Workshop (AffComp) [2019],[2018],[2017]
• AAAI Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AffCon) [2020],[2019],[2018]
• CVPR Workshop on Deep Affective Learning and Context Modelling (DAL-COM) [2017]

Facial Expression Recognition

:small_orange_diamond: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

• (2021) Affective Processes: Stochastic Modelling of Temporal Context for Emotion and Facial Expression Recognition [paper]
• (2021) Dive Into Ambiguity: Latent Distribution Mining and Pairwise Uncertainty Estimation for Facial Expression Recognition [paper]
• (2021) Feature Decomposition and Reconstruction Learning for Effective Facial Expression Recognition [paper]
• (2020