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Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

Computer interfaces are advancing towards using multi-modalities to enable better human-computer interactions. The use of automatic emotion recognition (AER) can make the interactions natural and meaningful thereby enhancing the user…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Upasana Tiwari , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Machine learning has been used to recognize emotions in faces, typically by looking for 8 different emotional states (neutral, happy, sad, surprise, fear, disgust, anger and contempt). We consider two approaches: feature recognition based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Siddartha Dalal , Sierra Vo , Michael Lesk , Wesley Yuan

Sentiment and emotion understanding are essential to applications such as human-computer interaction and depression detection. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate robust general capabilities, they face considerable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ao Li , Longwei Xu , Chen Ling , Jinghui Zhang , Pengwei Wang

Emotion recognition is involved in several real-world applications. With an increase in available modalities, automatic understanding of emotions is being performed more accurately. The success in Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Riccardo Franceschini , Enrico Fini , Cigdem Beyan , Alessandro Conti , Federica Arrigoni , Elisa Ricci

Affective reactions have deep biological foundations, however in humans the development of emotion concepts is also shaped by language and higher-order cognition. A recent breakthrough in AI has been the creation of multimodal language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zaira Romeo , Alberto Testolin

Emotions conveyed through voice and face shape engagement and context in human AI interaction. Despite rapid progress in omni modal large language models, the holistic evaluation of emotional reasoning with audiovisual cues remains limited.…

Understanding emotional signals in older adults is crucial for designing virtual assistants that support their well-being. However, existing affective computing models often face significant limitations: (1) limited availability of datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Josep Lopez Camunas , Cristina Bustos , Yanjun Zhu , Raquel Ros , Agata Lapedriza

Image emotion classification (IEC) is a longstanding research field that has received increasing attention with the rapid progress of deep learning. Although recent advances have leveraged the knowledge encoded in pre-trained visual models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zibo Zhou , Zhengjun Zhai , Huimin Chen , Wei Dai , Hansen Yang

Understanding and predicting emotion from videos has gathered significant attention in recent studies, driven by advancements in video large language models (VideoLLMs). While advanced methods have made progress in video emotion analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhicheng Zhang , Weicheng Wang , Yongjie Zhu , Wenyu Qin , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Jufeng Yang

Automatic emotion recognition (AER) based on enriched multimodal inputs, including text, speech, and visual clues, is crucial in the development of emotionally intelligent machines. Although complex modality relationships have been proven…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Shuyun Tang , Zhaojie Luo , Guoshun Nan , Yuichiro Yoshikawa , Ishiguro Hiroshi

The study of human emotions, traditionally a cornerstone in fields like psychology and neuroscience, has been profoundly impacted by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). Multiple channels, such as speech (voice) and facial…

Emotion recognition is a fundamental component of next-generation human-computer interaction (HCI), enabling machines to perceive, understand, and respond to users' affective states. However, existing systems often rely on single-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ziwen Zhong , Zhitao Shu , Yue Zhao

As the result of the growing importance of the Human Computer Interface system, understanding human's emotion states has become a consequential ability for the computer. This paper aims to improve the performance of emotion recognition by…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-25 Kuan Tung , Po-Kang Liu , Yu-Chuan Chuang , Sheng-Hui Wang , An-Yeu Wu

Recognizing faces and their underlying emotions is an important aspect of biometrics. In fact, estimating emotional states from faces has been tackled from several angles in the literature. In this paper, we follow the novel route of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Federico Becattini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Deep convolutional neural networks have been shown to successfully recognize facial emotions for the past years in the realm of computer vision. However, the existing detection approaches are not always reliable or explainable, we here…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jiawen Wang , Leah Kawka

Affective computing has proven to be a viable field of research comprised of a large number of multidisciplinary researchers resulting in work that is widely published. The majority of this work consists of computational models of emotion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-05 Joost Broekens

Emotion has an important role in daily life, as it helps people better communicate with and understand each other more efficiently. Facial expressions can be classified into 7 categories: angry, disgust, fear, happy, neutral, sad and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Shaoyuan Xu , Yang Cheng , Qian Lin , Jan P. Allebach

With the release of increasing open-source emotion recognition datasets on social media platforms and the rapid development of computing resources, multimodal emotion recognition tasks (MER) have begun to receive widespread research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

In human contact, emotion is very crucial. Attributes like words, voice intonation, facial expressions, and kinesics can all be used to portray one's feelings. However, brain-computer interface (BCI) devices have not yet reached the level…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Shashank Joshi , Falak Joshi