面部运动单元检测研究综述

面部运动单元检测旨在让计算机从给定的人脸图像或视频中自动检测需要关注的运动单元目标。经过二十多年的研究，尤其是近年来越来越多的面部运动单元数据库的建立和深度学习的兴起，面部运动单元检测技术发展迅速。首先，阐述了面部运动单元的基本概念，介绍了已有的常用面部运动单元检测数据库，概括了包括预处理、特征提取、分类器学习等步骤在内的传统检测方法；然后针对区域学习、面部运动单元关联学习、弱监督学习等几个关键研究方向进行了系统性的回顾梳理与分析；最后讨论了目前面部运动单元检测研究存在的不足以及未来潜在的发展方向。

Review of facial action unit detection

Facial action unit detection aims at making computers detect the action unit targets based on the given facial images or videos automatically. Due to a great amount of research during the past 20 years, especially the construction of more and more facial action unit databases and the raise of deep learning based methods, facial action unit detection technology has been rapidly developed. Firstly, the concept of facial action unit and commonly used facial action unit databases were introduced, and the traditional methods including steps such as pre-processing, feature extraction and classifier learning were summarized. Then, for several important research areas, such as region learning, facial action unit correlation learning and weak supervised learning, systematic review and analysis were conducted. Finally, the shortcomings of the existing reasearch and potential developing trends of facial action unit detection were discussed.