MiGA 2025
Challenge on Human Behavior Analysis for Emotion Understanding 2025

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