“Masking” our emotions: Botulinum toxin, facial expression, and well‐being in the age of COVID‐19

MS Nestor, D Fischer, D Arnold - Journal of Cosmetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background The globally devastating effects of COVID‐19 breach not only the realm of
public health, but of psychosocial interaction and communication as well, particularly with …

Facial expression analysis under partial occlusion: A survey

L Zhang, B Verma, D Tjondronegoro… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Automatic machine-based Facial Expression Analysis (FEA) has made substantial progress
in the past few decades driven by its importance for applications in psychology, security …

The impact of facemasks on emotion recognition, trust attribution and re-identification

M Marini, A Ansani, F Paglieri, F Caruana, M Viola - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Covid-19 pandemics has fostered a pervasive use of facemasks all around the world. While
they help in preventing infection, there are concerns related to the possible impact of …

Wearing face masks strongly confuses counterparts in reading emotions

CC Carbon - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Wearing face masks is one of the essential means to prevent the transmission of certain
respiratory diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although acceptance of …

Face masks reduce emotion-recognition accuracy and perceived closeness

F Grundmann, K Epstude, S Scheibe - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Face masks became the symbol of the global fight against the coronavirus. While face
masks' medical benefits are clear, little is known about their psychological consequences …

The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers

E Noyes, JP Davis, N Petrov… - Royal Society open …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion
recognition in Western cultures. Here, we present the results of three experiments that test …

Masked face emotion recognition based on facial landmarks and deep learning approaches for visually impaired people

M Mukhiddinov, O Djuraev, F Akhmedov… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Current artificial intelligence systems for determining a person's emotions rely heavily on lip
and mouth movement and other facial features such as eyebrows, eyes, and the forehead …

Children's emotion inferences from masked faces: Implications for social interactions during COVID-19

AL Ruba, SD Pollak - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
To slow the progression of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World
Health Organization (WHO) have recommended wearing face coverings. However, very little …

How does the presence of a surgical face mask impair the perceived intensity of facial emotions?

M Tsantani, V Podgajecka, KLH Gray, R Cook - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The use of surgical-type face masks has become increasingly common during the COVID-19
pandemic. Recent findings suggest that it is harder to categorise the facial expressions of …

Adaptive multilayer perceptual attention network for facial expression recognition

H Liu, H Cai, Q Lin, X Li, H **ao - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In complex real-world situations, problems such as illumination changes, facial occlusion,
and variant poses make facial expression recognition (FER) a challenging task. To solve the …