Multi Modal Facial Expression Recognition with Transformer-Based Fusion Networks and Dynamic Sampling

Facial expression recognition is an essential task for various applications, including emotion detection, mental health analysis, and human-machine interactions. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal facial expression recognition method that exploits audio information along with facial images to provide a crucial clue to differentiate some ambiguous facial expressions. Specifically, we introduce a Modal Fusion Module (MFM) to fuse audio-visual information, where image and audio features are extracted from Swin Transformer. Additionally, we tackle the imbalance problem in the dataset by employing dynamic data resampling. Our model has been evaluated in the Affective Behavior in-the-wild (ABAW) challenge of CVPR 2023.

Multi-Modal Facial Expression Recognition with Transformer-Based Fusion Networks and Dynamic Sampling

Facial expression recognition is important for various purpose such as emotion detection, mental health analysis, and human-machine interaction. In facial expression recognition, incorporating audio information along with still images can provide a more comprehensive understanding of an expression state. This paper presents the Multi-modal facial expression recognition methods for Affective Behavior in-the-wild (ABAW) challenge at CVPR 2023. We propose a Modal Fusion Module (MFM) to fuse audio-visual information. The modalities used are image and audio, and features are extracted based on Swin Transformer to forward the MFM. Our approach also addresses imbalances in the dataset through data resampling in training dataset and leverages the rich modal in a single frame using dynmaic data sampling, leading to improved performance.

Facial Expression Recognition with Swin Transformer

The task of recognizing human facial expressions plays a vital role in various human-related systems, including health care and medical fields. With the recent success of deep learning and the accessibility of a large amount of annotated data, facial expression recognition research has been mature enough to be utilized in real-world scenarios with audio-visual datasets. In this paper, we introduce Swin transformer-based facial expression approach for an in-the-wild audio-visual dataset of the Aff-Wild2 Expression dataset. Specifically, we employ a three-stream network (i.e., Visual stream, Temporal stream, and Audio stream) for the audio-visual videos to fuse the multi-modal information into facial expression recognition. Experimental results on the Aff-Wild2 dataset show the effectiveness of our proposed multi-modal approaches.