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Enhancing facial expression recognition with lightweight attention-based CNN

Aug 2026 · Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing · Vol 17, pp. 1579 - 1598 · 0 citations · 59 references

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A lightweight FER model that combines a truncated MobileNetV2 backbone with a patch-based local feature extraction module and a channel-attention refinement module and a channel-attention refinement module, followed by a compact classifier is proposed, outperforming many existing lightweight models.

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