Meta Auxiliary Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection

doi:10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3135516

	Meta Auxiliary Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection
	Li, Yong 1,2; Shan, Shiguang 3,4
	2023-07-01
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
ISSN	1949-3045
卷号	14 期号:3 页码:2526-2538
摘要	Despite the success of deep neural networks on facial action unit (AU) detection, better performance depends on a large number of training images with accurate AU annotations. However, labeling AU is time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone. Considering AU detection and facial expression recognition (FER) are two highly correlated tasks, and facial expression (FE) is relatively easy to annotate, we consider learning AU detection and FER in a multi-task manner. However, the performance of the AU detection task cannot be always enhanced due to the negative transfer in the multi-task scenario. To alleviate this issue, we propose a Meta Auxiliary Learning method (MAL) that automatically selects highly related FE samples by learning adaptative weights for the training FE samples in a meta learning manner. The learned sample weights alleviate the negative transfer from two aspects: 1) balance the loss of each task automatically, and 2) suppress the weights of FE samples that have large uncertainties. Experimental results on several popular AU datasets demonstrate MAL consistently improves the AU detection performance compared with the state-of-the-art multi-task and auxiliary learning methods. MAL automatically estimates adaptive weights for the auxiliary FE samples according to their semantic relevance with the primary AU detection task.
关键词	Facial action unit detection auxiliary learning meta learning
DOI	10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3135516
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key R&D Program of China ; Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province[2017YFA0700800] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[BK20210329] ; [62102180]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science, Cybernetics
WOS记录号	WOS:001075041900061
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
引用统计	被引频次：6[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/21126
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Shan, Shiguang
作者单位	1.Nanjing Univ Sci & Technol, PCA Lab, Minist Educ, Key Lab Intelligent Percept & Syst High Dimens inf, Nanjing 210094, Peoples R China 2.Nanjing Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Comp Sci & Engn, Jiangsu Key Lab Image & Video Understanding Social, Nanjing 210094, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Intelligent Informat Proc, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 4.CAS Ctr Excellencein Brain Sci & Intelligence Tech, Shanghai 200031, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Yong,Shan, Shiguang. Meta Auxiliary Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING,2023,14(3):2526-2538.
APA	Li, Yong,&Shan, Shiguang.(2023).Meta Auxiliary Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING,14(3),2526-2538.
MLA	Li, Yong,et al."Meta Auxiliary Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING 14.3(2023):2526-2538.