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AHMSA-Net: Adaptive Hierarchical Multi-Scale Attention Network for Micro-Expression Recognition (2501.02539v1)

Published 5 Jan 2025 in cs.CV

Abstract: Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in MER. However, these methods still suffer from the limitations of insufficient feature capture and poor dynamic adaptation when coping with the instantaneous subtle movement changes of micro-expressions. Therefore, in this paper, we design an Adaptive Hierarchical Multi-Scale Attention Network (AHMSA-Net) for MER. Specifically, we first utilize the onset and apex frames of the micro-expression sequence to extract three-dimensional (3D) optical flow maps, including horizontal optical flow, vertical optical flow, and optical flow strain. Subsequently, the optical flow feature maps are inputted into AHMSA-Net, which consists of two parts: an adaptive hierarchical framework and a multi-scale attention mechanism. Based on the adaptive downsampling hierarchical attention framework, AHMSA-Net captures the subtle changes of micro-expressions from different granularities (fine and coarse) by dynamically adjusting the size of the optical flow feature map at each layer. Based on the multi-scale attention mechanism, AHMSA-Net learns micro-expression action information by fusing features from different scales (channel and spatial). These two modules work together to comprehensively improve the accuracy of MER. Additionally, rigorous experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves competitive results on major micro-expression databases, with AHMSA-Net achieving recognition accuracy of up to 78.21% on composite databases (SMIC, SAMM, CASMEII) and 77.08% on the CASME{}3 database.

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