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ABAW: Valence-Arousal Estimation, Expression Recognition, Action Unit Detection & Multi-Task Learning Challenges

arXiv 2202.10659 ↗First posted 22 Feb 2022cs.CV cs.LGcited by 156

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This paper describes the third Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition, held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022. The 3rd ABAW Competition is a continuation of the Competitions held at ICCV 2021, IEEE FG 2020 and IEEE CVPR 2017 Conferences, and aims at automatically analyzing affect. This year the Competition encompasses four Challenges: i) uni-task Valence-Arousal Estimation, ii) uni-task Expression Classification, iii) uni-task Action Unit Detection, and iv) Multi-Task-Learning. All the Challenges are based on a common benchmark database, Aff-Wild2, which is a large scale in-the-wild database and the first one to be annotated in terms of valence-arousal, expressions and action units. In this paper, we present the four Challenges, with the utilized Competition corpora, we outline the evaluation metrics and present the baseline systems along with their obtained results.

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  1. 2022ABAW: Learning from Synthetic Data & Multi-Task Learning Challengescited by 110
  2. 2023ABAW: Valence-Arousal Estimation, Expression Recognition, Action Unit Detection & Emotional Reaction Intensity Estimation Challengescited by 110
  3. 2024The 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competitioncited by 78
  4. 2024Distribution Matching for Multi-Task Learning of Classification Tasks: a Large-Scale Study on Faces & Beyondcited by 60
  5. 20247th ABAW Competition: Multi-Task Learning and Compound Expression Recognitioncited by 53
  6. 2022Transformer-based Multimodal Information Fusion for Facial Expression Analysiscited by 49
  7. 2023A Deep Neural Architecture for Harmonizing 3-D Input Data Analysis and Decision Making in Medical Imagingcited by 39
  8. 2022A Joint Cross-Attention Model for Audio-Visual Fusion in Dimensional Emotion Recognitioncited by 34
  9. 2022MixAugment & Mixup: Augmentation Methods for Facial Expression Recognitioncited by 31
  10. 2024Domain adaptation, Explainability & Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis: Diagnosis of COVID-19 based on 3-D Chest CT-scanscited by 30
  11. 2025EmotiCrafter: Text-to-Emotional-Image Generation based on Valence-Arousal Modelcited by 26
  12. 2023Multi-modal Facial Affective Analysis based on Masked Autoencodercited by 23
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  1. 2024COVID-19 Computer-aided Diagnosis through AI-assisted CT Imaging Analysis: Deploying a Medical AI Systemcited by 23
  2. 2022Continuous Emotion Recognition using Visual-audio-linguistic information: A Technical Report for ABAW3cited by 20
  3. 2022AI-MIA: COVID-19 Detection & Severity Analysis through Medical Imagingcited by 20
  4. 2023Leveraging TCN and Transformer for effective visual-audio fusion in continuous emotion recognitioncited by 20
  5. 2023BTDNet: a Multi-Modal Approach for Brain Tumor Radiogenomic Classificationcited by 20
  6. 2024Affective Behaviour Analysis via Integrating Multi-Modal Knowledgecited by 18
  7. 2022Coarse-to-Fine Cascaded Networks with Smooth Predicting for Video Facial Expression Recognitioncited by 17
  8. 2022Frame-level Prediction of Facial Expressions, Valence, Arousal and Action Units for Mobile Devicescited by 16
  9. 2023MMA-MRNNet: Harnessing Multiple Models of Affect and Dynamic Masked RNN for Precise Facial Expression Intensity Estimationcited by 16
  10. 2024Robust Light-Weight Facial Affective Behavior Recognition with CLIPcited by 16
  11. 2024Behaviour4All: in-the-wild Facial Behaviour Analysis Toolkitcited by 16
  12. 2022Multi-modal Emotion Estimation for in-the-wild Videoscited by 15
  13. 2024Distilling Privileged Multimodal Information for Expression Recognition using Optimal Transportcited by 15
  14. 2024Recursive Joint Cross-Modal Attention for Multimodal Fusion in Dimensional Emotion Recognitioncited by 15
  15. 2025HSEmotion Team at ABAW-8 Competition: Audiovisual Ambivalence/Hesitancy, Emotional Mimicry Intensity and Facial Expression Recognitioncited by 15
  16. 2024Joint Multimodal Transformer for Emotion Recognition in the Wildcited by 14
  17. 2023ExpCLIP: Bridging Text and Facial Expressions via Semantic Alignmentcited by 13
  18. 2025DVD: A Comprehensive Dataset for Advancing Violence Detection in Real-World Scenarioscited by 13
  19. 2022Facial Action Unit Recognition With Multi-models Ensemblingcited by 10
  20. 2022Multi-modal Multi-label Facial Action Unit Detection with Transformercited by 10
  21. 2022Multi-Task Learning Framework for Emotion Recognition in-the-wildcited by 10
  22. 2022Facial Affect Analysis: Learning from Synthetic Data & Multi-Task Learning Challengescited by 10
  23. 2022Affective Behaviour Analysis Using Pretrained Model with Facial Prioricited by 10
  24. 2022Uncertain Facial Expression Recognition via Multi-task Assisted Correctioncited by 10
  25. 2022Multi-label Transformer for Action Unit Detectioncited by 9
  26. 2022Multiple Emotion Descriptors Estimation at the ABAW3 Challengecited by 9
  27. 2022An Ensemble Approach for Facial Expression Analysis in Videocited by 9
  28. 2022Facial Expression Recognition with Swin Transformercited by 9
  29. 2022Revisiting Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Facial Expression Recognitioncited by 9
  30. 2024Textualized and Feature-based Models for Compound Multimodal Emotion Recognition in the Wildcited by 9
  31. 2022Facial Expression Recognition based on Multi-head Cross Attention Networkcited by 8
  32. 2022Affective Behavior Analysis using Action Unit Relation Graph and Multi-task Cross Attentioncited by 8
  33. 2023A transformer-based approach to video frame-level prediction in Affective Behaviour Analysis In-the-wildcited by 8
  34. 2023Multi-modal Facial Action Unit Detection with Large Pre-trained Models for the 5th Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wildcited by 8
  35. 2024HSEmotion Team at the 6th ABAW Competition: Facial Expressions, Valence-Arousal and Emotion Intensity Predictioncited by 8
  36. 2024Exploring Facial Expression Recognition through Semi-Supervised Pretraining and Temporal Modelingcited by 8
  37. 2024Affective Behavior Analysis using Task-adaptive and AU-assisted Graph Networkcited by 8
  38. 2024Enhancing Facial Expression Recognition through Dual-Direction Attention Mixed Feature Networks: Application to 7th ABAW Challengecited by 8

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