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6 papers

cs.AI2026

A Multi-Scale Temporal Framework with Dynamic Fusion for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition

Stefanos Gkikas, Yang Guo, Guangliang Li +3

Mixed emotions represent a clinically relevant but still underexplored target for automatic emotion recognition. EEG provides millisecond-level access to neural activity, yet most…

cs.CV2026

ReFace: Reorganizing Facial Spatiotemporal Representations for Improved Pain Assessment

Stefanos Gkikas, Yu Fang, Christian Arzate Cruz +2

Automatic pain assessment from facial video remains challenging due to the spatial heterogeneity of pain-related facial cues. This study proposes ReFace, a spatial reorganization p…

cs.CV2026

A Unified Tokenization Framework for Pain Recognition using Heterogeneous 3D Modalities

Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Valentina Becchetti +3

Pain is a complex and pervasive phenomenon affecting a large percentage of the population, and accurate assessment is essential for effective clinical management and intervention.…

eess.SP2026

One-Block Transformer (1BT) for EEG-Based Cognitive Workload Assessment

Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Thomas Kassiotis +3

Accurate and continuous estimation of cognitive workload is fundamental to creating adaptive human-machine systems. However, designing architectures that balance representational c…

cs.CV2026

A Lightweight Transformer for Pain Recognition from Brain Activity

Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Yu Fang +6

Pain is a multifaceted and widespread phenomenon with substantial clinical and societal burden, making reliable automated assessment a critical objective. This paper presents a lig…

cs.CV2025

PainFormer: a Vision Foundation Model for Automatic Pain Assessment

Stefanos Gkikas, Raul Fernandez Rojas, Manolis Tsiknakis

Pain is a manifold condition that impacts a significant percentage of the population. Accurate and reliable pain evaluation for the people suffering is crucial to developing effect…