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Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger

The authors train facial-expression classifiers with an expression-specific action-unit guide derived from facial landmarks and labels, adding an alignment loss that encourages internal attention maps to match estimated facial-region heatmaps. On RAF-DB, APViT accuracy changes from 91.00% to 91.03%, while layer-5 ATT-COS rises from 0.38 to 0.85. This measures proxy-map agreement in this comparison, not validated interpretability.

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