This paper proposes extensions to probabilistic slow feature analysis (SFA) optimization, including an EM-SFA framework. EM-SFA uses an expectation-maximization algorithm to estimate model parameters without being constrained to estimate variance. The paper also combines EM-SFA with dynamic time warping to align time series data. These approaches are applied to facial behavior analysis tasks, demonstrating their ability to segment behaviors, align sequences, and detect conflicts in temporal data.