Title
Prior Aided Streaming Network for Multi-task Affective Analysis
Abstract
Automatic affective recognition has been an important research topic in the human-computer interaction (HCI) area. With the recent development of deep learning techniques and large-scale in-the-wild annotated datasets, facial emotion analysis is now aimed at challenges in real world settings. In this paper, we introduce our submission to the 2nd Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW2) Competition. In dealing with different emotion representations, including Categorical Expression (EXPR), Action Units (AU), and Valence Arousal (VA), we propose a multitask streaming network by a heuristic that the three representations are intrinsically associated with each other. Besides, we leverage an advanced facial expression embedding model as prior knowledge, which is capable of capturing identity-invariant expression features while preserving the expression similarities, to aid the down-streaming recognition tasks. In order to enhance the generalization ability of our model, we generate reliable pseudo labels for unsupervised training and adopt external datasets for fine-tuning. In the official test of ABAW2 Competition, our method ranks first in the EXPR and AU tracks and second in the VA track. The extensive quantitative evaluations, as well as ablation studies on the Aff-Wild2 dataset, prove the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICCVW54120.2021.00394
2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW 2021)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2021
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2473-9936
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Zhang1296.05
Zunhu Guo200.34
Keyu Chen362.83
Lincheng Li4122.89
Zhimeng Zhang511.02
Yu Ding65610.77
Runze Wu713.05
Tangjie Lv800.68
Changjie Fan95721.37