InsideOut: An EfficientNetV2-S Based Deep Learning Framework for Robust Multi-Class Facial Emotion Recognition

Ahsan Farabi, Israt Khandaker, Ibrahim Khalil Shanto, Md Abdul Ahad Minhaz, Tanisha Zaman
10/3/2025
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Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is a key task in affective computing, enabling applications in human-computer interaction, e-learning, healthcare, and safety systems. Despite advances in deep learning, FER remains challenging due to occlusions, illumination and pose variations, subtle intra-class differences, and dataset imbalance that hinders recognition of minority emotions. We present InsideOut, a reproducible FER framework built on EfficientNetV2-S with transfer learning, strong data augmentation, and imbalance-aware optimization. The approach standardizes FER2013 images, applies stratified splitting and augmentation, and fine-tunes a lightweight classification head with class-weighted loss to address skewed distributions. InsideOut achieves 62.8% accuracy with a macro averaged F1 of 0.590 on FER2013, showing competitive results compared to conventional CNN baselines. The novelty lies in demonstrating that efficient architectures, combined with tailored imbalance handling, can provide practical, transparent, and reproducible FER solutions.

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Cite this paper

@article{farabi2025insideout,
  title  = {InsideOut: An EfficientNetV2-S Based Deep Learning Framework for Robust Multi-Class Facial Emotion Recognition},
  author = {Ahsan Farabi and Israt Khandaker and Ibrahim Khalil Shanto and Md Abdul Ahad Minhaz and Tanisha Zaman},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2510.03066},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03066v1}
}

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