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# MiGA 2025
Challenge on Human Behavior Analysis for Emotion Understanding 2025

## Proceedings of IJCAI-2025 Workshop&Challenge on Human Behavior Analysis for Emotion Understanding (MiGA 2025)

### Guangzhou, China, August 29, 2025.

Edited by

### Haoyu Chen *
Guoying Zhao *
Björn W. Schuller **
Ehsan Adeli ***

* University of Oulu, Finland
** University of Augsburg, Germany; Imperial College London, London/UK
*** Stanford University, USA

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 14 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 12 papers were accepted for this volume, which are all regular papers.

### Session 1: MG Classification and Online Recognition

- MM-Gesture: Towards Precise Micro-Gesture Recognition through Multimodal Fusion
  Jihao Gu, Fei Wang, Kun Li, Yanyan Wei, Zhiliang Wu, Dan Guo
- Online Micro-gesture Recognition Using Data Augmentation and Spatial-Temporal Attention
  Pengyu Liu, Kun Li, Fei Wang, Yanyan Wei, Junhui She, Dan Guo
- Online Micro-Gesture Recognition in Long Videos via Spatiotemporal Feature Encoding and Query-Based Temporal Detection
  Chutian Meng, Fan Ma, Chi Zhang, Jiaxu Miao, Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang
- Enhancing Micro-gesture Classification via Global-Aware Importance Estimation in Vision Transformer
  Xin Hu, Chenyang Pu, Yunan Li, Yulang Xu, Kun Xie, Qiguang Miao
- Towards Fine-Grained Emotion Understanding via Skeleton-Based Micro-Gesture Recognition
  Hao Xu, Lechao Cheng, Yaxiong Wang, Shengeng Tang, Zhun Zhong

### Session 2: MG-based Emotion Recognition

- Weak to Strong: VLM-Based Pseudo-Labeling as a Weakly Supervised Training Strategy in Multimodal Video-based Hidden Emotion Understanding Tasks
  Yufei Wang, Haixu Liu, Tianxiang Xu, Chuancheng Shi, Hongsheng Xing
- Multi-Track Multimodal Learning on iMiGUE: Micro-Gesture and Emotion Recognition
  Arman Martirosyan, Shahane Tigranyan, Maria Razzhivina, Artak Aslanyan, Nazgul Salikhova, Ilya Makarov, Andrey Savchenko, Aram Avetisyan
- Behavior-Based Tennis Match Outcome Prediction via Fusion of Class Balancing Strategy and Emotional Priors
  Haozhe Bu, Yang Ma, Yunan Li, Qiguang Miao

### Session 3: Human Behaviour Analysis for Emotion Understanding

- Unreal Engine-based Data Augmentation to Improve Real-world Human Activity Recognition with Wearable Devices
  Xingyu Zhou, Keisuke Mizutani, Kento Tokuyama
- GraphAU-Pain: Graph-based Action Unit Representation for Pain Intensity Estimation
  Zhiyu Wang, Yang Liu, Hatice Gunes
- CLIP-MG: Guiding Semantic Attention with Skeletal Pose Features and RGB Data for Micro-Gesture Recognition on the iMiGUE Dataset
  Santosh Patapati, Trisanth Srinivasan, Amith Adiraju
- The 3rd Challenge on Human Behavior Analysis for Emotion Understanding (MiGA) 2025: From Recognition to Emotion Understanding
  Haoyu Chen, Björn W. Schuller, Ehsan Adeli, Guoying Zhao

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