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Salient object detection is subjective in nature, which implies that multiple estimations should be related to the same input image. Most existing salient object detection models are deterministic following a point to point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xinyu Tian , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Saliency detection is one of the most challenging problems in image analysis and computer vision. Many approaches propose different architectures based on the psychological and biological properties of the human visual attention system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Fateme Mostafaie , Zahra Nabizadeh , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Images can convey rich semantics and induce various emotions in viewers. Recently, with the rapid advancement of emotional intelligence and the explosive growth of visual data, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to affective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Sicheng Zhao , Xingxu Yao , Jufeng Yang , Guoli Jia , Guiguang Ding , Tat-Seng Chua , Björn W. Schuller , Kurt Keutzer

How can we define visual sentiment when viewers systematically disagree on their perspectives? This study introduces a novel approach to visual sentiment analysis by integrating attitudinal differences into visual sentiment classification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Olga Gasparyan , Elena Sirotkina

In this work, user's emotion using its facial expressions will be detected. These expressions can be derived from the live feed via system's camera or any pre-exisiting image available in the memory. Emotions possessed by humans can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Raghav Puri , Archit Gupta , Manas Sikri , Mohit Tiwari , Nitish Pathak , Shivendra Goel

Multimodal aspect-based sentiment classification (MASC) is an emerging task due to an increase in user-generated multimodal content on social platforms, aimed at predicting sentiment polarity toward specific aspect targets (i.e., entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Luwei Xiao , Rui Mao , Shuai Zhao , Qika Lin , Yanhao Jia , Liang He , Erik Cambria

Humans express feelings or emotions via different channels. Take language as an example, it entails different sentiments under different visual-acoustic contexts. To precisely understand human intentions as well as reduce the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Ting Wu , Junjie Peng , Wenqiang Zhang , Huiran Zhang , Chuanshuai Ma , Yansong Huang

Images become an important and prevalent way to express users' activities, opinions and emotions. In a social network, individual emotions may be influenced by others, in particular by close friends. We focus on understanding how users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Xiaohui Wang , Jia Jia , Lianhong Cai , Jie Tang

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

Natural language interaction with data visualization tools often involves the use of vague subjective modifiers in utterances such as "show me the sectors that are performing" and "where is a good neighborhood to buy a house?." Interpreting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Vidya Setlur , Arathi Kumar

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise as tools for inferring affect from visual stimuli at scale; it is not yet clear how closely their outputs align with human affective ratings. We benchmarked nine VLMs, ranging from state-of-the-art…

By predicting where humans look in natural scenes, we can understand how they perceive complex natural scenes and prioritize information for further high-level visual processing. Several models have been proposed for this purpose, yet there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Mengyang Feng , Ali Borji , Huchuan Lu

Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing saliency methods that provide visual explanations of network predictions. Still, the usability of existing methods is limited to image classification models. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Lukas Hoyer , Mauricio Munoz , Prateek Katiyar , Anna Khoreva , Volker Fischer

For graphical user interface (UI) design, it is important to understand what attracts visual attention. While previous work on saliency has focused on desktop and web-based UIs, mobile app UIs differ from these in several respects. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Luis A. Leiva , Yunfei Xue , Avya Bansal , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Tuğçe Köroğlu , Niraj R. Dayama , Antti Oulasvirta

People have the ability to make sensible assumptions about other people's emotional states by being sympathetic, and because of our common sense of knowledge and the ability to think visually. Over the years, much research has been done on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Stuti Sehgal , Harsh Sharma , Akshat Anand

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved high visual fidelity, yet precise control over scene semantics and fine-grained affective tone remains challenging. Human visual affect arises from the rapid integration of contextual meaning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Li He , Longtai Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang , Yan Wang , Lizhe Qi

Sentiment Analysis refers to the study of systematically extracting the meaning of subjective text . When analysing sentiments from the subjective text using Machine Learning techniques,feature extraction becomes a significant part. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Avinash Madasu , Sivasankar E

Recently, the philosophy of visual saliency and attention has started to gain popularity in the robotics community. Therefore, this paper aims to mimic this mechanism in SLAM framework by using saliency prediction model. Comparing with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ke Wang , Sai Ma , Junlan Chen , Jianbo Lu

Social media platforms and online forums generate rapid and increasing amount of textual data. Businesses, government agencies, and media organizations seek to perform sentiment analysis on this rich text data. The results of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Muhammad Haroon Shakeel , Turki Alghamidi , Safi Faizullah , Imdadullah Khan

The rapid proliferation of visual content raises fundamental questions about how different visual formats and features shape perceived credibility. Drawing on processing fluency theory, this research examines how visuals shape credibility…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Salman Khawar , Yingdan Lu , Yilang Peng , Jiyoung Yeon , Cuihua Shen