Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of expression recognition, and in particular, to an expression recognition method and system based on multi-scale features and spatial attention. The method includes: performing feature extraction on acquired facial image data by using an HNFER neural network model to obtain an original input feature map; performing pooling and concatenation on extracted features based on a CoordAtt attention mechanism to obtain a feature map; performing deep convolution processing on the feature map to obtain an attention map, and then performing element-by-element multiplication to obtain a final feature map; and performing feature transformation and normalization on the final feature map to obtain an expression category probability and output the expression category probability.