arXiv:2611.05711 · v1
Self-Supervised Pretraining for Label-Efficient Facial Expression Recognition using Smart Glasses
摘要
Facial Expression Recognition (FER) on optomyographic (OMG) smart glasses such as OCOsense enables privacy-preserving, camera-free affect sensing for health and well-being. Most FER systems are fully supervised, i.e., they rely either on hand-crafted expert features with classical machine learning, or on end-to-end deep models trained from labelled data. Both depend on large quantities of labelled expressions, which are costly to collect and limit deployment in real-world, personalized settings. We investigate Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) as a route to label-efficient FER on these glasses. We pretrain a Vision Transformer with a masked-autoencoder objective on unlabelled OCOsense recordings and finetune it for five-class FER under person-independent cross-validation. Across label budgets from 5% to 100%, pretraining consistently improves performance; with only 5% of the labels, the pretrained model outperforms the from-scratch model trained with all labels. Our results show that SSL pretraining is a practical way to reduce labelling cost for smart eyewear FER, and we discuss the implications for future personalization and continual adaptation.
作者备注：7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Best Paper Award at the SEPH 2026 workshop, UbiComp Companion '26
期刊信息：Companion of the 2026 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp Companion '26), October 11-15, 2026, Shanghai, China