Tomas Pfister

ICCV'11: Recognising Spontaneous Micro-expressions

Micro-expressions are very short (1/3 to 1/25 second) involuntary facial expressions which give a brief glimpse to feelings that people undergo but try not to express. They can be used for various applications where reading hidden feelings are useful, e.g. for lie detection.

Paper - Poster - Video - Binary code (temporal interpolation) - Request a copy of the SMIC database

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