ASD-FER: An Annotated Multi-Class Benchmark and Comparative Study for Facial Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Shahana Yasmin Chowdhury, Bithi Banik, Tracey A. Knaus, Christopher David Moore, Henry Fordjour Ansah, Huda Hammad, Pranish Ghimire, Md Tamjidul Hoque, Shreya Banerjee
ASD-FER introduces a benchmark dataset for facial emotion recognition in children with ASD and evaluates multiple models, finding ViT achieves the highest accuracy on a held-out set.
bioRxiv · Oct 20, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience