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Facial expression is a motion and positioning of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of an individual to observers and are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information between humans, but they also occur in most other mammals and some other animal species. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Facial expressionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Deep Facial Expression Recognition: A SurveyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The expression of emotions in man and animalsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Facial expression and emotion.Cited 2,408 times
- Go sideways: FrownA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Discrete emotion theoryA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun (A particular) configuration of the facial muscles that conveys certain emotions or intentions.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Facial expression and emotion.
Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial expression
Facial Expression Recognition Using Facial Movement Features
Evolution of Facial Expression
Authentic facial expression analysis
Assessing Pain by Facial Expression: Facial Expression as Nexus
Simultaneous Facial Feature Tracking and Facial Expression Recognition
Automatic facial expression interpretation
🆕 Influential since 2022
Deep Facial Expression Recognition: A Survey
Classifying Emotions and Engagement in Online Learning Based on a Single Facial Expression Recognition Neural Network
Facial Expression Recognition With Visual Transformers and Attentional Selective Fusion
Distract Your Attention: Multi-Head Cross Attention Network for Facial Expression Recognition
A-MobileNet: An approach of facial expression recognition
📚 Books worth reading
The expression of emotions in man and animalsCharles Darwin · 1872
L'homme qui ritVictor Hugo · 1800
Physiognomy and expressionPaul Mantegazza, King's College London · 1880- 📕Body language for dummiesElizabeth Kuhnke · 2007
Elements of elocutionWalker, John · 1781
Stop staringJason Osipa · 2003
Emotions RevealedPaul Ekman · 2003
The anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected with the fine artsSir Charles Bell · 1844
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