Video Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures for Facial Expression Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09524v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:48:11 GMT
• Title: Video Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures for Facial Expression Recognition
• Authors: Lennart Eing, Cristina Luna-Jiménez, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a novel application of Video Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (V-JEPAs) for Facial Expression Recognition (FER)<n>V-JEPAs learn by predicting embeddings of masked regions from the embeddings of unmasked regions.<n>We train shallow classifiers using the RAVDESS and CREMA-D datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance on RAVDESS and outperforming all other vision-based methods on CREMA-D.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper introduces a novel application of Video Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (V-JEPAs) for Facial Expression Recognition (FER). Departing from conventional pre-training methods for video understanding that rely on pixel-level reconstructions, V-JEPAs learn by predicting embeddings of masked regions from the embeddings of unmasked regions. This enables the trained encoder to not capture irrelevant information about a given video like the color of a region of pixels in the background. Using a pre-trained V-JEPA video encoder, we train shallow classifiers using the RAVDESS and CREMA-D datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance on RAVDESS and outperforming all other vision-based methods on CREMA-D (+1.48 WAR). Furthermore, cross-dataset evaluations reveal strong generalization capabilities, demonstrating the potential of purely embedding-based pre-training approaches to advance FER. We release our code at https://github.com/lennarteingunia/vjepa-for-fer.

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