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Effective human-AI interaction relies on AI's ability to accurately perceive and interpret human emotions. Current benchmarks for vision and vision-language models are severely limited, offering a narrow emotional spectrum that overlooks…

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With the explosive growth of social media, opinionated postings with emojis have increased explosively. Many emojis are used to express emotions, attitudes, and opinions. Emoji representation learning can be helpful to improve the…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal emotion recognition capabilities, integrating multimodal cues from visual, acoustic, and linguistic contexts in the video to recognize human emotional states.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Liyun Zhang

Emotional understanding and generation are often treated as separate tasks, yet they are inherently complementary and can mutually enhance each other. In this paper, we propose the UniEmo, a unified framework that seamlessly integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yijie Zhu , Lingsen Zhang , Zitong Yu , Rui Shao , Tao Tan , Liqiang Nie

Multi-modal emotion recognition has garnered increasing attention as it plays a significant role in human-computer interaction (HCI) in recent years. Since different discrete emotions may exist at the same time, compared with single-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chuhang Zheng , Chunwei Tian , Jie Wen , Daoqiang Zhang , Qi Zhu

Current facial emotion recognition systems are predominately trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories or abstract dimensional values. This constrained form of supervision hinders generalization and applicability, as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Licai Sun , Xingxun Jiang , Haoyu Chen , Yante Li , Zheng Lian , Biu Liu , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng , Jukka M. Leppänen , Guoying Zhao

Emotion recognition has become an important field of research in the human-computer interactions domain. The latest advancements in the field show that combining visual with audio information lead to better results if compared to the case…

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Designing emotionally intelligent conversational systems to provide comfort and advice to people experiencing distress is a compelling area of research. Recently, with advancements in large language models (LLMs), end-to-end dialogue agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Chenwei Wan , Matthieu Labeau , Chloé Clavel

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is crucial in developing sympathetic human-machine interaction. In conversational videos, emotion can be present in multiple modalities, i.e., audio, video, and transcript. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Vishal Chudasama , Purbayan Kar , Ashish Gudmalwar , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Naoyuki Onoe

Head avatars animated by visual signals have gained popularity, particularly in cross-driving synthesis where the driver differs from the animated character, a challenging but highly practical approach. The recently presented MegaPortraits…

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Emotion Prediction in Conversation (EPC) aims to forecast the emotions of forthcoming utterances by utilizing preceding dialogues. Previous EPC approaches relied on simple context modeling for emotion extraction, overlooking fine-grained…

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Decoding emotional states from human brain activity plays an important role in brain-computer interfaces. Existing emotion decoding methods still have two main limitations: one is only decoding a single emotion category from a brain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Kaicheng Fu , Changde Du , Shengpei Wang , Huiguang He

We describe EmoBank, a corpus of 10k English sentences balancing multiple genres, which we annotated with dimensional emotion metadata in the Valence-Arousal-Dominance (VAD) representation format. EmoBank excels with a bi-perspectival and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Given the growing ubiquity of emojis in language, there is a need for methods and resources that shed light on their meaning and communicative role. One conspicuous aspect of emojis is their use to convey affect in ways that may otherwise…

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Understanding the emotional impact of movies has become important for affective movie analysis, ranking, and indexing. Methods for recognizing evoked emotions are usually trained on human annotated data. Concretely, viewers watch video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Hassan Hayat , Carles Ventura , Agata Lapedriza

Emotion perception and adaptive expression are fundamental capabilities in human-agent interaction. While recent advances in speech emotion captioning (SEC) have improved fine-grained emotional modeling, existing systems remain limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shuhao Xu , Yifan Hu , Jingjing Wu , Zhihao Du , Zheng Lian , Rui Liu

Multimodal speech emotion recognition aims to detect speakers' emotions from audio and text. Prior works mainly focus on exploiting advanced networks to model and fuse different modality information to facilitate performance, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhen Wu , Yizhe Lu , Xinyu Dai

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

The emergence of artificial emotional intelligence technology is revolutionizing the fields of computers and robotics, allowing for a new level of communication and understanding of human behavior that was once thought impossible. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 James Z. Wang , Sicheng Zhao , Chenyan Wu , Reginald B. Adams , Michelle G. Newman , Tal Shafir , Rachelle Tsachor

The evolution of Omni-Modal Large Language Models~(Omni-LLMs) has revolutionized human--computer interaction, enabling unified audio-visual perception and speech response. However, existing Omni-LLMs struggle with complex real-world…

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