In this paper, we present a new idea to analyze facial expression by exploring some common and specific information among different expressions. Inspired by the observation that only a few facial parts are active in expression disclosure (e.g., aroun...
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Apr 2, 2025
The interplay of mind attribution and emotional responses is considered crucial in shaping human trust and acceptance of social robots. Understanding this interplay can help us create the right conditions for successful human-robot social interaction...
Applied psychology. Health and well-being
Feb 1, 2025
Negative emotions such as loneliness, depression, and anxiety (LDA) are prevalent and pose significant challenges to emotional well-being. Traditional methods of assessing LDA, reliant on questionnaires, often face limitations because of participants...
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
Jan 1, 2025
Life support robots in care settings must be able to read a person's emotions from facial expressions to achieve empathic communication. This study aims to determine the degree of agreement between Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks (M...
BACKGROUND: Botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) injections are widely administered for facial rejuvenation, but their effects on facial expressions remain unclear.
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Jul 17, 2024
Facial emotion recognition (FER) is largely utilized to analyze human emotion in order to address the needs of many real-time applications such as computer-human interfaces, emotion detection, forensics, biometrics, and human-robot collaboration. Non...
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
Jun 4, 2024
Humanoid robots have been designed to look more and more like humans to meet social demands. How do people empathize humanoid robots who look the same as but are essentially different from humans? We addressed this issue by examining subjective feeli...
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Mar 1, 2024
In demanding application scenarios such as clinical psychotherapy and criminal interrogation, the accurate recognition of micro-expressions is of utmost importance but poses significant challenges. One of the main difficulties lies in effectively cap...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Oct 20, 2023
When it comes to health, a very widespread problem nowadays is mental health, where almost 18% of the world's population suffers from certain mental illnesses. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a concept that evolves strongly and is expected in the nea...
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Apr 24, 2023
With the development of AI (Artificial Intelligence), facial expression recognition (FER) is a hot topic in computer vision tasks. Many existing works employ a single label for FER. Therefore, the label distribution problem has not been considered fo...