| ExpressNet-MoE: A Hybrid Deep Neural Network for Emotion Recognition | ✓ Link | 72.55 | 74.77 | ExpressNet-MoE | 2025-10-15 |
| Norface: Improving Facial Expression Analysis by Identity Normalization | ✓ Link | 68.69 | | Norface | 2024-07-22 |
| A Dual-Direction Attention Mixed Feature Network for Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | 65.04 | 67.36 | DDAMFN++ | 2023-08-25 |
| Representation Learning and Identity Adversarial Training for Facial Behavior Understanding | ✓ Link | 64.79 | | FMAE | 2024-07-15 |
| QCS: Feature Refining from Quadruplet Cross Similarity for Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | 64.4 | 67.94 | QCS | 2024-11-04 |
| Batch Transformer: Look for Attention in Batch | | 64.29 | 67.60 | BTN | 2024-07-05 |
| A Dual-Direction Attention Mixed Feature Network for Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | 64.25 | 67.03 | DDAMFN | 2023-08-25 |
| A novel deep learning approach for facial emotion recognition: application to detecting emotional responses in elderly individuals with Alzheimer’s disease | ✓ Link | 64.13 | 67.46 | EmoNeXt | 2024-12-30 |
| POSTER++: A simpler and stronger facial expression recognition network | ✓ Link | 63.77 | 67.49 | POSTER++ | 2023-01-28 |
| A Lightweight Model Enhancing Facial Expression Recognition with Spatial Bias and Cosine-Harmony Loss | ✓ Link | 63.12 | 66.57 | LFNSB | 2024-08-01 |
| From Static to Dynamic: Adapting Landmark-Aware Image Models for Facial Expression Recognition in Videos | ✓ Link | 63.06 | 67.62 | S2D | 2023-12-09 |
| Classifying emotions and engagement in online learning based on a single facial expression recognition neural network | ✓ Link | 63.03 | 66.29 | Multi-task EfficientNet-B2 | 2022-07-04 |
| Expression, Affect, Action Unit Recognition: Aff-Wild2, Multi-Task Learning and ArcFace | | 63 | | MT-ArcRes | 2019-09-25 |
| ExpLLM: Towards Chain of Thought for Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | 62.86 | 65.93 | ExpLLM | 2024-09-04 |
| Emotion Separation and Recognition from a Facial Expression by Generating the Poker Face with Vision Transformers | | 62.42 | | Vit-base + MAE | 2022-07-22 |
| CAGE: Circumplex Affect Guided Expression Inference | ✓ Link | 62.2 | 66.6 | CAGE | 2024-04-23 |
| Distract Your Attention: Multi-head Cross Attention Network for Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | 62.09 | 65.69 | DAN | 2021-09-15 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 61.72 | | SL + SSL in-panting-pl (B0) | 2021-05-13 |
| Leveraging Recent Advances in Deep Learning for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition | | 61.60 | 65.4 | Distilled student | 2021-03-16 |
| Facial expression and attributes recognition based on multi-task learning of lightweight neural networks | ✓ Link | 61.32 | 65.74 | Multi-task EfficientNet-B0 | 2021-03-31 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 61.32 | | SL + SSL puzzling (B2) | 2021-05-13 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 61.09 | | SL + SSL puzzling (B0) | 2021-05-13 |
| Pyramid With Super Resolution for In-the-Wild Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | 60.68 | | PSR (VGG-16) | 2020-07-17 |
| Deep Neural Network Augmentation: Generating Faces for Affect Analysis | | 60.40 | | VGG-FACE | 2018-11-12 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 60.35 | | SL (B2) | 2021-05-13 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 60.34 | | SL (B0) | 2021-05-13 |
| Learning Deep Global Multi-scale and Local Attention Features for Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild | ✓ Link | 60.29 | 64.53 | MA-Net | 2021-07-05 |
| Robust Lightweight Facial Expression Recognition Network with Label Distribution Training | ✓ Link | 59.89 | 63.70 | EfficientFace | 2021-05-18 |
| Local Learning with Deep and Handcrafted Features for Facial Expression Recognition | | 59.58 | 63.31 | CNNs and BOVW + local SVM | 2018-04-29 |
| Region Attention Networks for Pose and Occlusion Robust Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | 59.5 | | RAN (ResNet-18+) | 2019-05-10 |
| Efficient Facial Feature Learning with Wide Ensemble-based Convolutional Neural Networks | ✓ Link | 59.3 | | Ensemble with Shared Representations (ESR-9) | 2020-01-17 |
| Emotion Separation and Recognition from a Facial Expression by Generating the Poker Face with Vision Transformers | | 58.28 | | ViT-tiny | 2022-07-22 |
| AffectNet: A Database for Facial Expression, Valence, and Arousal Computing in the Wild | ✓ Link | 58.0 | | Weighted-Loss | 2017-08-14 |
| Emotion Separation and Recognition from a Facial Expression by Generating the Poker Face with Vision Transformers | | 57.99 | | ViT-base | 2022-07-22 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 55.36 | | SL+ SSL in-painting-pl + 20% train (B0) | 2021-05-13 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 54.98 | | SL+ SSL puzzling + 20% train (B0) | 2021-05-13 |
| Exploring Emotion Features and Fusion Strategies for Audio-Video Emotion Recognition | | 53.925 | | LResNet50E-IR | 2020-12-27 |
| Using Self-Supervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Fine-Grained Facial Representation | | 52.46 | | SL + 20% train (B0) | 2021-05-13 |
| ResEmoteNet: Bridging Accuracy and Loss Reduction in Facial Emotion Recognition | ✓ Link | | 72.93 | ResEmoteNet | 2024-09-01 |
| In Search of a Robust Facial Expressions Recognition Model: A Large-Scale Visual Cross-Corpus Study | ✓ Link | | 66.49 | EmoAffectNet | 2022-10-07 |
| Exploiting Emotional Dependencies with Graph Convolutional Networks for Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | | 66.46 | Emotion-GCN | 2021-06-07 |
| Distribution Matching for Heterogeneous Multi-Task Learning: a Large-scale Face Study | | | 65.40 | FaceBehaviorNet | 2021-05-08 |
| A Dual-Branch Adaptive Distribution Fusion Framework for Real-World Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | | 65.34 | Ada-DF | 2023-05-05 |
| Learn From All: Erasing Attention Consistency for Noisy Label Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | | 65.32 | EAC | 2022-07-21 |
| Increasingly Packing Multiple Facial-Informatics Modules in A Unified Deep-Learning Model via Lifelong Learning | ✓ Link | | 65.29 | PAENet | 2019-06-10 |
| Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild via Deep Attentive Center Loss | ✓ Link | | 65.20 | DACL | 2021-01-07 |
| FerNeXt: Facial Expression Recognition Using ConvNeXt with Channel Attention | ✓ Link | | 64.77 | FerNeXt | 2023-10-20 |
| Compacting, Picking and Growing for Unforgetting Continual Learning | ✓ Link | | 63.57 | CPG | 2019-10-15 |
| Ad-Corre: Adaptive Correlation-Based Loss for Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild | ✓ Link | | 63.36 | Ad-Corre | 2022-03-03 |
| CAKE: Compact and Accurate K-dimensional representation of Emotion | | | 61.7 | CAKE | 2018-07-30 |
| Facial Motion Prior Networks for Facial Expression Recognition | ✓ Link | | 61.52 | Facial Motion Prior Network | 2019-02-23 |