VAD-Net: Multidimensional Facial Expression Recognition in Intelligent Education System

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06377v1
• Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:11:48 GMT
• Title: VAD-Net: Multidimensional Facial Expression Recognition in Intelligent Education System
• Authors: Yi Huo, Yun Ge,
• Abstract summary: AffectNet has tried to add VA (Valence and Arousal) information, but still lacks D(Dominance) dimension.<n>This research introduces VAD annotation on FER2013 dataset, takes the initiative to label D(Dominance) dimension.<n>Experiment results show that D dimension could be measured but is difficult to obtain compared with V and A dimension.<n>The newly built VAD FER2013 dataset could act as a benchmark to measure VAD multidimensional emotions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Current FER (Facial Expression Recognition) dataset is mostly labeled by emotion categories, such as happy, angry, sad, fear, disgust, surprise, and neutral which are limited in expressiveness. However, future affective computing requires more comprehensive and precise emotion metrics which could be measured by VAD(Valence-Arousal-Dominance) multidimension parameters. To address this, AffectNet has tried to add VA (Valence and Arousal) information, but still lacks D(Dominance). Thus, the research introduces VAD annotation on FER2013 dataset, takes the initiative to label D(Dominance) dimension. Then, to further improve network capacity, it enforces orthogonalized convolution on it, which extracts more diverse and expressive features and will finally increase the prediction accuracy. Experiment results show that D dimension could be measured but is difficult to obtain compared with V and A dimension no matter in manual annotation or regression network prediction. Secondly, the ablation test by introducing orthogonal convolution verifies that better VAD prediction could be obtained in the configuration of orthogonal convolution. Therefore, the research provides an initiative labelling for D dimension on FER dataset, and proposes a better prediction network for VAD prediction through orthogonal convolution. The newly built VAD annotated FER2013 dataset could act as a benchmark to measure VAD multidimensional emotions, while the orthogonalized regression network based on ResNet could act as the facial expression recognition baseline for VAD emotion prediction. The newly labeled dataset and implementation code is publicly available on https://github.com/YeeHoran/VAD-Net .

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