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Although significant progress has been made in this field, it is still challenging to recognize facial expressions with occlusions and large head-poses. To address these issues, this paper presents a cascade regression-based face frontalization (CRFF) method, which aims to immediately reconstruct a clean, frontal and expression-aware face given an in-the-wild facial image. In the first stage, a frontal facial shape is predicted by developing a cascade regression model to learn the pairwise spatial relation between non-frontal face-shape and its frontal counterpart. Unlike most existing shape prediction methods that used single-step regression, the cascade model is a multi-step regressor that gradually aligns non-frontal shape to its frontal view. We employ several different regressors and make a ensemble decision to boost prediction performance. For facial texture reconstruction, active appearance model instantiation is employed to warp the input face to the predicted frontal shape and generate a clean face. To remove occlusions, we train this generative model on manually selected clean-face sets, which ensures generating a clean face as output regardless of whether the input face involves occlusions or not. Unlike the existing face reconstruction methods that are computational expensive, the proposed method works in real time, so it is suitable for dynamic analysis of facial expression. The experimental validation shows that the\u00a0ensembling cascade model has improved frontal shape prediction accuracy for an average of 5% and the proposed method has achieved superior performance on both static and dynamic recognition of facial expressions over the state-of-the-art approaches. 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