arxivcs.CV2026-07-11
A Shared Latent for Partially-Labeled Multi-Task Facial Affect Recognition
Hong Hai Nguyen, Sy Phan Van, Soo-Hyung Kim, Van-Thong Huynh
Facial affect in the wild is naturally multi-task: valence-arousal, discrete expressions, and facial action units describe the same face. Yet real corpora annotate these tasks only partially and unevenly, so most systems mask the missing labels or impute pseudo-labels and forgo t…