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Fine-Grained Self-Paced Relational Preserving Network for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Facial Expression Recognition
Summary
This study introduces FSR-Net for cross-domain few-shot facial expression recognition (CF-FER). The novel approach enhances model adaptation to compound expressions using fine-grained descriptions and a self-paced regularization strategy, significantly improving accuracy.
Area of Science:
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Cross-domain few-shot facial expression recognition (CF-FER) adapts models to new expression types with limited data.
- Existing vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with subtle compound expressions and overfitting in few-shot learning.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a novel network, FSR-Net, for improved CF-FER.
- To address limitations of coarse-grained prompts and episodic training in VLMs for CF-FER.
Main Methods:
- Proposed FSR-Net utilizes fine-grained action unit (AU)-aware textual descriptions from large language models (LLMs).
- Introduced a self-paced relational preserving regularization (SPR) strategy to mitigate overfitting by weighting reliable samples.
Main Results:
- FSR-Net achieved average improvements of 5.78% (1-shot) and 3.80% (5-shot) over state-of-the-art methods.
- Demonstrated superior performance on multiple CF-FER benchmarks.
Conclusions:
- FSR-Net effectively captures subtle expression cues and enhances cross-domain transferability.
- The proposed methods significantly advance the field of few-shot facial expression recognition.
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