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most citedDeep Adaptive Attention for Joint Facial Action Unit Detection and Face Alignment

164 citations · 761 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CV2026

Vision-Language Guided Hyperspectral Object Tracking via Semantics Fusion and Contextual Template Updating

Rui Yao, Yuhong Zhang, Kunyang Sun +4

Hyperspectral object tracking (HOT) leverages the rich spectral information provided by hyperspectral videos (HSVs), offering substantial potential for object tracking. However, ef…

cs.CV2025

DTTNet: Improving Video Shadow Detection via Dark-Aware Guidance and Tokenized Temporal Modeling

Zhicheng Li, Kunyang Sun, Rui Yao +5

Video shadow detection confronts two entwined difficulties: distinguishing shadows from complex backgrounds and modeling dynamic shadow deformations under varying illumination. To…

cs.CV2025★ 21 cited

MOL: Joint Estimation of Micro-Expression, Optical Flow, and Landmark via Transformer-Graph-Style Convolution

Zhiwen Shao, Yifan Cheng, Feiran Li +4

Facial micro-expression recognition (MER) is a challenging problem, due to transient and subtle micro-expression (ME) actions. Most existing methods depend on hand-crafted features…

cs.CV2025

Modality-Guided Dynamic Graph Fusion and Temporal Diffusion for Self-Supervised RGB-T Tracking

Shenglan Li, Rui Yao, Yong Zhou +5

To reduce the reliance on large-scale annotations, self-supervised RGB-T tracking approaches have garnered significant attention. However, the omission of the object region by erro…

cs.CV2024

CurvNet: Latent Contour Representation and Iterative Data Engine for Curvature Angle Estimation

Zhiwen Shao, Yichen Yuan, Lizhuang Ma +1

Curvature angle is a quantitative measurement of a curve, in which Cobb angle is customized for spinal curvature. Automatic Cobb angle measurement from X-ray images is crucial for…

cs.CV2024★ 24 cited

Facial Action Unit Detection by Adaptively Constraining Self-Attention and Causally Deconfounding Sample

Zhiwen Shao, Hancheng Zhu, Yong Zhou +4

Facial action unit (AU) detection remains a challenging task, due to the subtlety, dynamics, and diversity of AUs. Recently, the prevailing techniques of self-attention and causal…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

SU-SAM: A Simple Unified Framework for Adapting Segment Anything Model in Underperformed Scenes

Yiran Song, Qianyu Zhou, Xuequan Lu +2

Segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated excellent generalizability in common vision scenarios, yet falling short of the ability to understand specialized data. Recently, seve…

cs.CV2023★ 35 cited

CT-Net: Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection via Contour Transformer

Zhiwen Shao, Yuchen Su, Yong Zhou +4

Contour based scene text detection methods have rapidly developed recently, but still suffer from inaccurate frontend contour initialization, multi-stage error accumulation, or def…

cs.CV2023

LRANet: Towards Accurate and Efficient Scene Text Detection with Low-Rank Approximation Network

Yuchen Su, Zhineng Chen, Zhiwen Shao +5

Recently, regression-based methods, which predict parameterized text shapes for text localization, have gained popularity in scene text detection. However, the existing parameteriz…

cs.CV2023★ 58 cited

IterativePFN: True Iterative Point Cloud Filtering

Dasith de Silva Edirimuni, Xuequan Lu, Zhiwen Shao +3

The quality of point clouds is often limited by noise introduced during their capture process. Consequently, a fundamental 3D vision task is the removal of noise, known as point cl…

cs.CV2022★ 29 cited

TextDCT: Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection via Discrete Cosine Transform Mask

Yuchen Su, Zhiwen Shao, Yong Zhou +4

Arbitrary-shaped scene text detection is a challenging task due to the variety of text changes in font, size, color, and orientation. Most existing regression based methods resort…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

"Forget" the Forget Gate: Estimating Anomalies in Videos using Self-contained Long Short-Term Memory Networks

Habtamu Fanta, Zhiwen Shao, Lizhuang Ma

Abnormal event detection is a challenging task that requires effectively handling intricate features of appearance and motion. In this paper, we present an approach of detecting an…

cs.CV2020★ 9 cited

Fine-Grained Expression Manipulation via Structured Latent Space

Junshu Tang, Zhiwen Shao, Lizhuang Ma

Fine-grained facial expression manipulation is a challenging problem, as fine-grained expression details are difficult to be captured. Most existing expression manipulation methods…

cs.CV2020★ 53 cited

SiTGRU: Single-Tunnelled Gated Recurrent Unit for Abnormality Detection

Habtamu Fanta, Zhiwen Shao, Lizhuang Ma

Abnormality detection is a challenging task due to the dependence on a specific context and the unconstrained variability of practical scenarios. In recent years, it has benefited…

cs.CV2020★ 30 cited

GeoConv: Geodesic Guided Convolution for Facial Action Unit Recognition

Yuedong Chen, Guoxian Song, Zhiwen Shao +3

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition has attracted great attention but still remains a challenging task, as subtle changes of local facial muscles are difficult to thoroug…

cs.CV2020★ 155 cited

JA-Net: Joint Facial Action Unit Detection and Face Alignment via Adaptive Attention

Zhiwen Shao, Zhilei Liu, Jianfei Cai +1

Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks, since facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meanin…

cs.CV2020★ 35 cited

Facial Action Unit Detection via Adaptive Attention and Relation

Zhiwen Shao, Yong Zhou, Jianfei Cai +2

Facial action unit (AU) detection is challenging due to the difficulty in capturing correlated information from subtle and dynamic AUs. Existing methods often resort to the localiz…

cs.CV2019★ 14 cited

Explicit Facial Expression Transfer via Fine-Grained Representations

Zhiwen Shao, Hengliang Zhu, Junshu Tang +2

Facial expression transfer between two unpaired images is a challenging problem, as fine-grained expression is typically tangled with other facial attributes. Most existing methods…

cs.CV2019★ 11 cited

Unconstrained Facial Action Unit Detection via Latent Feature Domain

Zhiwen Shao, Jianfei Cai, Tat-Jen Cham +2

Facial action unit (AU) detection in the wild is a challenging problem, due to the unconstrained variability in facial appearances and the lack of accurate annotations. Most existi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 9 cited

Recurrence time correlations in random walks with preferential relocation to visited places

Daniel Campos, Vicenç Méndez

Random walks with memory typically involve rules where a preference for either revisiting or avoiding those sites visited in the past are introduced somehow. Such effects have a di…

cs.CV2018★ 96 cited

Facial Action Unit Detection Using Attention and Relation Learning

Zhiwen Shao, Zhilei Liu, Jianfei Cai +2

Attention mechanism has recently attracted increasing attentions in the field of facial action unit (AU) detection. By finding the region of interest of each AU with the attention…

cs.CV2018★ 164 cited

Deep Adaptive Attention for Joint Facial Action Unit Detection and Face Alignment

Zhiwen Shao, Zhilei Liu, Jianfei Cai +1

Facial action unit (AU) detection and face alignment are two highly correlated tasks since facial landmarks can provide precise AU locations to facilitate the extraction of meaning…

cs.CV2016★ 12 cited

Learning deep representation from coarse to fine for face alignment

Zhiwen Shao, Shouhong Ding, Yiru Zhao +2

In this paper, we propose a novel face alignment method that trains deep convolutional network from coarse to fine. It divides given landmarks into principal subset and elaborate s…