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Most affective computing tasks still rely heavily on traditional methods, with few deep learning models applied, particularly in multimodal signal processing. Given the importance of stress monitoring for mental health, developing a highly…

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Accurate recognition of human emotions is a crucial challenge in affective computing and human-robot interaction (HRI). Emotional states play a vital role in shaping behaviors, decisions, and social interactions. However, emotional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Youssef Mohamed , Severin Lemaignan , Arzu Guneysu , Patric Jensfelt , Christian Smith

Inferring emotions from physiological signals has gained much traction in the last years. Physiological responses to emotions, however, are commonly interfered and overlapped by physical activities, posing a challenge towards emotion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Judith S. Heinisch , Christoph Anderson , Klaus David

Pain is a multifaceted phenomenon that affects a substantial portion of the population. Reliable and consistent evaluation supports individuals experiencing pain and enables the development of effective and advanced management strategies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Stefanos Gkikas , Ioannis Kyprakis , Manolis Tsiknakis

Automated emotion recognition has applications in various fields, such as human-machine interaction, healthcare, security, education, and emotion-aware recommendation/feedback systems. Developing methods to analyze human emotions accurately…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Ruijie Fang , Ruoyu Zhang , Elahe Hosseini , Chongzhou Fang , Mahdi Eslaminehr , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Bedside caregivers assess infants' pain at constant intervals by observing specific behavioral and physiological signs of pain. This standard has two main limitations. The first limitation is the intermittent assessment of pain, which might…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Ghada Zamzmi , Dmitry Goldgof , Rangachar Kasturi , Yu Sun , Terri Ashmeade

In a world where technology is increasingly embedded in our everyday experiences, systems that sense and respond to human emotions are elevating digital interaction. At the intersection of artificial intelligence and human-computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Karishma Hegde , Hemadri Jayalath

Chronic pain is a multi-dimensional experience, and pain intensity plays an important part, impacting the patients emotional balance, psychology, and behaviour. Standard self-reporting tools, such as the Visual Analogue Scale for pain, fail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Diogo A. P. Nunes , Joana Ferreira-Gomes , Daniela Oliveira , Carlos Vaz , Sofia Pimenta , Fani Neto , David Martins de Matos

Current day pain assessment methods rely on patient self-report or by an observer like the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses. Patient self-report is subjective to the individual and suffers due to poor recall. Pain assessment by manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Subhash Nerella , Azra Bihorac , Patrick Tighe , Parisa Rashidi

Automatic continuous time, continuous value assessment of a patient's pain from face video is highly sought after by the medical profession. Despite the recent advances in deep learning that attain impressive results in many domains, pain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Joy Egede , Michel Valstar , Brais Martinez

Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, trained on emotion data extracted from physiological signals, provide a promising approach to monitoring emotions, affect, and mental well-being. However, the field encounters challenges because…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Pragya Singh , Mohan Kumar , Pushpendra Singh

In our everyday lives and social interactions we often try to perceive the emotional states of people. There has been a lot of research in providing machines with a similar capacity of recognizing emotions. From a computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Ronak Kosti , Jose M. Alvarez , Adria Recasens , Agata Lapedriza

Pain is a personal, subjective experience that is commonly evaluated through visual analog scales (VAS). While this is often convenient and useful, automatic pain detection systems can reduce pain score acquisition efforts in large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Daniel Lopez Martinez , Ognjen Rudovic , Rosalind Picard

Chronic pain is a global health challenge affecting millions of individuals, making it essential for physicians to have reliable and objective methods to measure the functional impact of clinical treatments. Traditionally used methods, like…

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In the past, several models of consciousness have become popular and have led to the development of models for machine consciousness with varying degrees of success and challenges for simulation and implementations. Moreover, affective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Rohitash Chandra

Facial pain expression is an important modality for assessing pain, especially when the patient's verbal ability to communicate is impaired. The facial muscle-based action units (AUs), which are defined by the Facial Action Coding System…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Zhanli Chen , Rashid Ansari , Diana Wilkie

Previous research on automatic pain estimation from facial expressions has focused primarily on "one-size-fits-all" metrics (such as PSPI). In this work, we focus on directly estimating each individual's self-reported visual-analog scale…

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The importance and pervasiveness of emotions in our lives makes affective computing a tremendously important and vibrant line of work. Systems for automatic emotion recognition (AER) and sentiment analysis can be facilitators of enormous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Saif M. Mohammad

In recent years, Affective Computing and its applications have become a fast-growing research topic. Furthermore, the rise of Deep Learning has introduced significant improvements in the emotion recognition system compared to classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Joaquim Comas , Decky Aspandi , Xavier Binefa