Action Units Recognition Using Improved Pairwise Deep Architecture

Understand

Facial Action Units (AUs) represent a set of facial muscular activities and various combinations of AUs can represent a wide range of emotions.

• AU recognition is often used in many applications, including marketing, healthcare, education, and so forth.
• Although a lot of studies have developed various methods to improve recognition accuracy, it still remains a major challenge for AU recognition.
• In the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2020 competition, we proposed a new automatic Action Units (AUs) recognition method using a pairwise deep architecture to derive the Pseudo-Intensities of each AU and then convert them into predicted intensities.