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The ability of an intelligent environment to connect and adapt to real internal sates, needs and behaviors' meaning of humans can be made possible by considering users' emotional states as contextual parameters. In this paper, we build on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Nevin Vunka Jungum , Eric Laurent

Emotion classification in text is typically performed with neural network models which learn to associate linguistic units with emotions. While this often leads to good predictive performance, it does only help to a limited degree to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Felix Casel , Amelie Heindl , Roman Klinger

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

Emotions play a crucial role in human life. The research community has proposed many theories on emotions without reaching much consensus. The situation is similar for emotions in cognitive architectures and autonomous agents. I propose in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-23 Yue Jin

The ability to combine linguistic guidance from others with direct experience is central to human development, enabling safe and rapid learning in new environments. How do people integrate these two sources of knowledge, and how might AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cédric Colas , Tracey Mills , Ben Prystawski , Michael Henry Tessler , Noah Goodman , Jacob Andreas , Joshua Tenenbaum

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Affective Computing (AC) has enabled Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to recognise, interpret, and respond to human emotions - a capability also known as Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI). It is increasingly seen as an important…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yupei Li , Qiyang Sun , Michelle Schlicher , Yee Wen Lim , Björn W. Schuller

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are widely used tools in statistics, machine learning, robotics, computer vision, and scientific computation. However, despite their popularity, they can be difficult to apply; all but the simplest classification or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Ulrich Schaechtle , Ben Zinberg , Alexey Radul , Kostas Stathis , Vikash K. Mansinghka

Affective Behavior Analysis aims to facilitate technology emotionally smart, creating a world where devices can understand and react to our emotions as humans do. To comprehensively evaluate the authenticity and applicability of emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wei Zhang , Feng Qiu , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Heming Du , Tiancheng Guo , Xin Yu

Abstraction is a fundamental tool for reasoning about complex systems. Program abstraction has been utilized to great effect for analyzing deterministic programs. At the heart of program abstraction is the relationship between a concrete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Steven Holtzen , Todd Millstein , Guy Van den Broeck

Automatic Affect Prediction (AAP) uses computational analysis of input data such as text, speech, images, and physiological signals to predict various affective phenomena (e.g., emotions or moods). These models are typically constructed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Bernd Dudzik , Tiffany Matej Hrkalovic , Chenxu Hao , Chirag Raman , Masha Tsfasman

Storing knowledge of an agent's environment in the form of a probabilistic generative model has been established as a crucial ingredient in a multitude of cognitive tasks. Perception has been formalised as probabilistic inference over the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-22 David G. Nagy , Balázs Török , Gergő Orbán

We introduce the notion of a stochastic probabilistic program and present a reference implementation of a probabilistic programming facility supporting specification of stochastic probabilistic programs and inference in them. Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-23 David Tolpin , Tomer Dobkin

In organizational and commercial settings, people often have clear roles and workflows against which functional and non-functional requirements can be extracted. However, in more social settings, such as platforms for enhancing social…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Mohammadhossein Sherkat , Antonette Mendoza , Tim Miller , Rachel Burrows

Probabilistic programming languages allow programmers to write down conditional probability distributions that represent statistical and machine learning models as programs that use observe statements. These programs are run by accumulating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jules Jacobs

We present a novel deep learning-based framework to generate embedding representations of fine-grained emotions that can be used to computationally describe psychological models of emotions. Our framework integrates a contextualized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yuting Guo , Jinho Choi

Modeling emotional-cognition is in a nascent stage and therefore wide-open for new ideas and discussions. In this paper the author looks at the modeling problem by bringing in ideas from axiomatic mathematics, information theory, computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Rajendra K. Bera

Human emotions unfold over time, and more affective computing research has to prioritize capturing this crucial component of real-world affect. Modeling dynamic emotional stimuli requires solving the twin challenges of time-series modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Desmond C. Ong , Zhengxuan Wu , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Marianne Reddan , Isabella Kahhale , Alison Mattek , Jamil Zaki

Language models now provide an interface to express and often solve general problems in natural language, yet their ultimate computational capabilities remain a major topic of scientific debate. Unlike a formal computer, a language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Alex Lewandowski , Marlos C. Machado , Dale Schuurmans

Generative pre-trained models power intelligent software features used by millions of users controlled by developer-written natural language prompts. Despite the impact of prompt-powered software, little is known about its development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Jenny T. Liang , Melissa Lin , Nikitha Rao , Brad A. Myers