针对动态表情识别中的数据异质性问题,提出鲁棒优化框架提升模型泛化能力。
Learning from Heterogeneity: Generalizing Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition via Distributionally Robust Optimization
- 设计时频分布注意力模块,增强对时间不一致和风格变化的容忍度
- 在DFEW和FERV39k上实现更高加权与未加权召回率
- 适合处理多源数据和个体差异大的表情识别任务
动态面部表情识别(DFER)在情感计算与人机交互中至关重要。现有方法虽性能相近,但在多源数据与个体表达差异导致的样本异质性下仍表现下降。为此,本文提出异质感知分布框架(HDF),设计两个即插即用模块:时频分布注意力模块(DAM)通过双分支注意力捕捉时间一致性与频率鲁棒性,提升对序列不一致和视觉风格变化的适应能力;基于梯度敏感性和信息瓶颈原理,引入分布感知缩放模块(DSM),动态平衡分类与对比损失,实现更稳定、更具判别性的表示学习。在两个常用数据集DFEW和FERV39k上的大量实验表明,HDF显著提升识别准确率与鲁棒性,在多样化且不平衡场景中保持强泛化能力。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) plays a critical role in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Although existing methods achieve comparable performance, they inevitably suffer from performance degradation under sample heterogeneity caused by multi-source data and individual expression variability. To address these challenges, we propose a novel framework, called Heterogeneity-aware Distributional Framework (HDF), and design two plug-and-play modules to enhance time-frequency modeling and mitigate optimization imbalance caused by hard samples. Specifically, the Time-Frequency Distributional Attention Module (DAM) captures both temporal consistency and frequency robustness through a dual-branch attention design, improving tolerance to sequence inconsistency and visual style shifts. Then, based on gradient sensitivity and information bottleneck principles, an adaptive optimization module Distribution-aware Scaling Module (DSM) is introduced to dynamically balance classification and contrastive losses, enabling more stable and discriminative representation learning. Extensive experiments on two widely used datasets, DFEW and FERV39k, demonstrate that HDF significantly improves both recognition accuracy and robustness. Our method achieves superior weighted average recall (WAR) and unweighted average recall (UAR) while maintaining strong generalization across diverse and imbalanced scenarios. Codes are released at https://github.com/QIcita/HDF_DFER.
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