Title
Suppressing Uncertainties For Large-Scale Facial Expression Recognition
Abstract
Annotating a qualitative large-scale facial expression dataset is extremely difficult due to the uncertainties caused by ambiguous facial expressions, low-quality facial images, and the subjectiveness of annotators. These uncertainties lead to a key challenge of large-scale Facial Expression Recognition (FER) in deep learning era. To address this problem, this paper proposes a simple yet efficient Self-Cure Network (SCN) which suppresses the uncertainties efficiently and prevents deep networks from over-fitting uncertain facial images. Specifically, SCN suppresses the uncertainty from two different aspects: 1) a self-attention mechanism over mini-batch to weight each training sample with a ranking regularization, and 2) a careful relabeling mechanism to modify the labels of these samples in the lowest-ranked group. Experiments on synthetic FER datasets and our collected WebEmotion dataset validate the effectiveness of our method. Results on public benchmarks demonstrate that our SCN outperforms current state-of-the-art methods with 88.14% on RAF-DB, 60.23% on Affect-Net, and 89.35% on FERPlus. The code will be available at https://github.com/kaiwang960112/Self-Cure-Network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00693
2020 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
33
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Wang11734195.03
Xiaojiang Peng239521.83
Jianfei Yang322123.81
Shijian Lu4134693.57
Yu Qiao52267152.01