“…Our SD-CNN method is compared with the recent state-of-the-art FER methods, including DeRL [ 12 ], FN2EN [ 18 ], FMPN [ 28 ], VGG-face [ 8 ], MicroExpNet [ 34 ], GoogLeNet [ 17 ], MultiAttention [ 24 ], DSAE [ 26 ], GCNet [ 40 ], DynamicMTL [ 41 ], IA-gen [ 20 ], CompactCNN [ 30 ], DTAGN(Joint) [ 29 ], CPPN [ 27 ], DPND [ 10 ], PPDN [ 11 ], and FAN [ 31 ]. Table 2 reports our experimental results and shows the comparisons with these methods.…”