PESFormer: Boosting Macro- and Micro-expression Spotting with Direct Timestamp Encoding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18695v1
• Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:45:25 GMT
• Title: PESFormer: Boosting Macro- and Micro-expression Spotting with Direct Timestamp Encoding
• Authors: Wang-Wang Yu, Kai-Fu Yang, Xiangrui Hu, Jingwen Jiang, Hong-Mei Yan, Yong-Jie Li,
• Abstract summary: PESFormer is a model based on the vision transformer architecture to achieve point-to-interval expression spotting. PESFormer employs a direct timestamp encoding (DTE) approach to replace anchors, enabling binary classification of each timestamp. We implement a strategy that involves zero-padding the untrimmed training videos to create uniform, longer videos of a predetermined duration.
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• Abstract: The task of macro- and micro-expression spotting aims to precisely localize and categorize temporal expression instances within untrimmed videos. Given the sparse distribution and varying durations of expressions, existing anchor-based methods often represent instances by encoding their deviations from predefined anchors. Additionally, these methods typically slice the untrimmed videos into fixed-length sliding windows. However, anchor-based encoding often fails to capture all training intervals, and slicing the original video as sliding windows can result in valuable training intervals being discarded. To overcome these limitations, we introduce PESFormer, a simple yet effective model based on the vision transformer architecture to achieve point-to-interval expression spotting. PESFormer employs a direct timestamp encoding (DTE) approach to replace anchors, enabling binary classification of each timestamp instead of optimizing entire ground truths. Thus, all training intervals are retained in the form of discrete timestamps. To maximize the utilization of training intervals, we enhance the preprocessing process by replacing the short videos produced through the sliding window method.Instead, we implement a strategy that involves zero-padding the untrimmed training videos to create uniform, longer videos of a predetermined duration. This operation efficiently preserves the original training intervals and eliminates video slice enhancement.Extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations on three datasets -- CAS(ME)^2, CAS(ME)^3 and SAMM-LV -- demonstrate that our PESFormer outperforms existing techniques, achieving the best performance.

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