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Learning Transferable Facial Emotion Representations from Large-Scale Semantically Rich Captions
Licai Sun, Xingxun Jiang, Haoyu Chen, Yante Li, Zheng Lian, Biu Liu, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Jukka M. Lepp\"anen, Guoying Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21015

Learning Transferable Facial Emotion Representations from Large-Scale Semantically Rich Captions
Current facial emotion recognition systems are predominately trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories or abstract dimensional values. This constrained form of supervision hinders generalization and applicability, as it reduces the rich and nuanced spectrum of emotions into oversimplified labels or scales. In contrast, natural language provides a more flexible, expressive, and interpretable way to represent emotions, offering a much broader source of supervision. Yet, leveraging s…