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The group affect or emotion in an image of people can be inferred by extracting features about both the people in the picture and the overall makeup of the scene. The state-of-the-art on this problem investigates a combination of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Ashok Sundaresan , Sugumar Murugesan , Sean Davis , Karthik Kappaganthu , ZhongYi Jin , Divya Jain , Anurag Maunder

Group-level emotion recognition (GER) aims to identify holistic emotions within a scene involving multiple individuals. Current existed methods underestimate the importance of visual scene contextual information in modeling individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qing Zhu , Wangdong Guo , Qirong Mao , Xiaohua Huang , Xiuyan Shao , Wenming Zheng

A graph neural network (GNN) for image understanding based on multiple cues is proposed in this paper. Compared to traditional feature and decision fusion approaches that neglect the fact that features can interact and exchange information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Xin Guo , Luisa F. Polania , Bin Zhu , Charles Boncelet , Kenneth E. Barner

Group Emotion Recognition (GER) aims to infer collective affect in social environments such as classrooms, crowds, and public events. Many existing approaches rely on explicit individual-level processing, including cropped faces, person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Anderson Augusma , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Fédérique Letué

The cohesiveness of a group is an essential indicator of the emotional state, structure and success of a group of people. We study the factors that influence the perception of group-level cohesion and propose methods for estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Shreya Ghosh , Abhinav Dhall , Nicu Sebe , Tom Gedeon

Group-level emotion recognition (GER) is an inseparable part of human behavior analysis, aiming to recognize an overall emotion in a multi-person scene. However, the existing methods are devoted to combing diverse emotion cues while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Qing Zhu , Qirong Mao , Jialin Zhang , Xiaohua Huang , Wenming Zheng

Collaborating in a group, whether face-to-face or virtually, involves continuously expressing emotions and interpreting those of other group members. Therefore, understanding group affect is essential to comprehending how groups interact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Navin Raj Prabhu , Maria Tsfasman , Catharine Oertel , Timo Gerkmann , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock

With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, group-level emotion recognition (GER) has emerged as an important area in analyzing human behavior. Early GER methods are primarily relied on handcrafted features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Xiaohua Huang , Jinke Xu , Wenming Zheng , Qirong Mao , Abhinav Dhall

Understanding individual, group and event level emotions along with contextual information is crucial for analyzing a multi-person social situation. To achieve this, we frame emotion comprehension as the task of predicting fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anubhav Kataria , Surbhi Madan , Shreya Ghosh , Tom Gedeon , Abhinav Dhall

In emergency management for mass gathering, the knowledge about crowd types can highly assist with providing timely response and effective resource allocation. Crowd monitoring can be achieved using computer vision based approaches and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Minh Quan Ngo , Pari Delir Haghighi , Frada Burstein

The process of human affect understanding involves the ability to infer person specific emotional states from various sources including images, speech, and language. Affect perception from images has predominantly focused on expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Digbalay Bose , Rajat Hebbar , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of analyzing and identifying human emotions from sensing data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because visual channel conveys rich emotional cues. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kejun Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Chang Tang , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen

Humans are emotional creatures. Multiple modalities are often involved when we express emotions, whether we do so explicitly (e.g., facial expression, speech) or implicitly (e.g., text, image). Enabling machines to have emotional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Sicheng Zhao , Guoli Jia , Jufeng Yang , Guiguang Ding , Kurt Keutzer

Technological advancement and its omnipresent connection have pushed humans past the boundaries and limitations of a computer screen, physical state, or geographical location. It has provided a depth of avenues that facilitate…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Dayo Samuel Banjo , Connice Trimmingham , Niloofar Yousefi , Nitin Agarwal

In this paper, we introduce a framework for classifying images according to high-level sentiment. We subdivide the task into three primary problems: emotion classification on faces, human pose estimation, and 3D estimation and clustering of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Zeshan Hussain , Tariq Patanam , Hardie Cate

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER), leveraging speech and text, has emerged as a pivotal domain within human-computer interaction, demanding sophisticated methods for effective multimodal integration. The challenge of aligning features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Xuechen Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Haoqin Sun , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Qin

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) focuses on identifying and interpreting emotions from modality-compound inputs. Closely mirroring human cognitive processes in real-world environments, MER has drawn substantial attention from both…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hongrui Zhang , Daiqing Wu , Yangyang Li , Kuien Liu , Yuhui Wang , Yu Zhou , Sicheng Zhao

Throughout the past decade, many studies have classified human emotions using only a single sensing modality such as face video, electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), etc. The results of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Siddharth Siddharth , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Terrence J. Sejnowski

Affect (emotion) recognition has gained significant attention from researchers in the past decade. Emotion-aware computer systems and devices have many applications ranging from interactive robots, intelligent online tutor to emotion based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Amol Patwardhan , Gerald Knapp

The integration of information across multiple modalities and across time is a promising way to enhance the emotion recognition performance of affective systems. Much previous work has focused on instantaneous emotion recognition. The 2018…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Didan Deng , Yuqian Zhou , Jimin Pi , Bertram E. Shi
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