Two PhD students, Mr FAN Xinqi and Mr SHAHID Ali Raza, under the supervision of Prof Hong Yan, have been ranked the Second in Facial Micro-Expression (FME) Challenge held at the ACM Multimedia 2021 for the paper titled “Facial Micro-Expression Generation based on Deep Motion Re-targeting and Transfer Learning”.
The winning team attempted the facial micro-expression generation task. The goal of this task was to generate specific micro-expression (source) on the given template faces (target). Three experts from UK, Finland and China were invited to evaluate the submissions. The final decision were made based on the result performance and the paper quality.