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MEGC2026: Micro-Expression Grand Challenge on Visual Question Answering

arXiv cs.CV / 3/11/2026

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Key Points

  • The MEGC2026 challenge focuses on facial micro-expressions (MEs), involuntary subtle facial movements reflecting suppressed emotions in high-stakes situations.
  • It introduces two tasks: ME video question answering (ME-VQA) on short videos using large multimodal language and vision-language models, and ME long-video question answering (ME-LVQA) requiring temporal reasoning over extended videos.
  • The challenge aims to leverage the advanced reasoning capabilities of multimodal LLMs and LVLMs to improve ME analysis, including recognition and spotting.
  • Participants must submit results to a public leaderboard, facilitating benchmarking and progress tracking in this emerging research area.
  • Further information and challenge details are available on the official MEGC2026 website.

Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

arXiv:2603.08927 (cs)
[Submitted on 9 Mar 2026]

Title:MEGC2026: Micro-Expression Grand Challenge on Visual Question Answering

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Abstract:Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In recent years, substantial advancements have been made in the areas of ME recognition, spotting, and generation. The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs) offers promising new avenues for enhancing ME analysis through their powerful multimodal reasoning capabilities. The ME grand challenge (MEGC) 2026 introduces two tasks that reflect these evolving research directions: (1) ME video question answering (ME-VQA), which explores ME understanding through visual question answering on relatively short video sequences, leveraging MLLMs or LVLMs to address diverse question types related to MEs; and (2) ME long-video question answering (ME-LVQA), which extends VQA to long-duration video sequences in realistic settings, requiring models to handle temporal reasoning and subtle micro-expression detection across extended time periods. All participating algorithms are required to submit their results on a public leaderboard. More details are available at this https URL.
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Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Multimedia (cs.MM)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.08927 [cs.CV]
  (or arXiv:2603.08927v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.08927
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From: Xinqi Fan [view email]
[v1] Mon, 9 Mar 2026 20:53:51 UTC (345 KB)
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