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most citedFindingEmo: An Image Dataset for Emotion Recognition in the Wild

2 citations · 2 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CV2025

Assessing the Alignment of Popular CNNs to the Brain for Valence Appraisal

Laurent Mertens, Elahe' Yargholi, Laura Van Hove +3

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a popular type of computer model that have proven their worth in many computer vision tasks. Moreover, they form an interesting study objec…

cs.CV2024

Enhancing Computer Vision with Knowledge: a Rummikub Case Study

Simon Vandevelde, Laurent Mertens, Sverre Lauwers +1

Artificial Neural Networks excel at identifying individual components in an image. However, out-of-the-box, they do not manage to correctly integrate and interpret these components…

cs.CV2024

EmoCAM: Toward Understanding What Drives CNN-based Emotion Recognition

Youssef Doulfoukar, Laurent Mertens, Joost Vennekens

Convolutional Neural Networks are particularly suited for image analysis tasks, such as Image Classification, Object Recognition or Image Segmentation. Like all Artificial Neural N…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

FindingEmo: An Image Dataset for Emotion Recognition in the Wild

Laurent Mertens, Elahe' Yargholi, Hans Op de Beeck +2

We introduce FindingEmo, a new image dataset containing annotations for 25k images, specifically tailored to Emotion Recognition. Contrary to existing datasets, it focuses on compl…

cs.CL2022

Compressing Word Embeddings Using Syllables

Laurent Mertens, Joost Vennekens

This work examines the possibility of using syllable embeddings, instead of the often used -gram embeddings, as subword embeddings. We investigate this for two languages: Englis…