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Emotion recognition in dynamic social contexts requires an understanding of the complex interaction between facial expressions and situational cues. This paper presents a salience-adjusted framework for context-aware emotion recognition…

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Accurate emotion recognition is pivotal for nuanced and engaging human-computer interactions, yet remains difficult to achieve, especially in dynamic, conversation-like settings. In this study, we showcase how integrating eye-tracking data,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Meisam Jamshidi Seikavandi , Jostein Fimland , Maria Barrett , Paolo Burelli

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

Emotion recognition in social situations is a complex task that requires integrating information from both facial expressions and the situational context. While traditional approaches to automatic emotion recognition have focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bin Han , Cleo Yau , Su Lei , Jonathan Gratch

Affect recognition based on subjects' facial expressions has been a topic of major research in the attempt to generate machines that can understand the way subjects feel, act and react. In the past, due to the unavailability of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Understanding emotions in natural language is inherently a multi-dimensional reasoning problem, where multiple affective signals interact through context, interpersonal relations, and situational cues. However, most existing emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hemanth Kotaprolu , Kishan Maharaj , Raey Zhao , Abhijit Mishra , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

We present an approach utilizing Topological Data Analysis to study the structure of face poses used in affective computing, i.e., the process of recognizing human emotion. The approach uses a conditional comparison of different emotions,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Hamza Elhamdadi , Shaun Canavan , Paul Rosen

Facial expression perception in humans inherently relies on prior knowledge and contextual cues, contributing to efficient and flexible processing. For instance, multi-modal emotional context (such as voice color, affective text, body pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Florian Blume , Runfeng Qu , Pia Bideau , Martin Maier , Rasha Abdel Rahman , Olaf Hellwich

This paper proposes a process for a classification model for the facial expressions. The proposed process would aid in specific categorisation of children's emotions from 2 emotions namely 'Happy' and 'Sad'. Since the existing emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Sanchayan Vivekananthan

Automatic facial expression recognition is an important research area in the emotion recognition and computer vision. Applications can be found in several domains such as medical treatment, driver fatigue surveillance, sociable robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sevegni Odilon Clement Allognon , Alessandro L. Koerich , Alceu de S. Britto

Many individuals especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), alexithymia, or other neurodivergent profiles face challenges in recognizing, expressing, or interpreting emotions. To support more inclusive and personalized emotion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela , Yukie Nagai

Recent models of emotion recognition strongly rely on supervised deep learning solutions for the distinction of general emotion expressions. However, they are not reliable when recognizing online and personalized facial expressions, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Pablo Barros , German I. Parisi , Stefan Wermter

Video-based emotion recognition is a challenging task because it requires to distinguish the small deformations of the human face that represent emotions, while being invariant to stronger visual differences due to different identities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Masih Aminbeidokhti , Marco Pedersoli , Patrick Cardinal , Eric Granger

Emotion recognition has received considerable attention from the Computer Vision community in the last 20 years. However, most of the research focused on analyzing the six basic emotions (e.g. joy, anger, surprise), with a limited work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mina Bishay , Jay Turcot , Graham Page , Mohammad Mavadati

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

Recognising emotions in context involves identifying an individual's apparent emotions while considering contextual cues from the surrounding scene. Previous approaches to this task have typically designed explicit scene-encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Alexandros Xenos , Niki Maria Foteinopoulou , Ioanna Ntinou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Emotion recognition is a core research area at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human communication analysis. It is a significant technical challenge since humans display their emotions through complex idiosyncratic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

Decades of research indicate that emotion recognition is more effective when drawing information from multiple modalities. But what if some modalities are sometimes missing? To address this problem, we propose a novel Transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L. Crowley

The technical report presents our emotion recognition pipeline for high-dimensional emotion task (A-VB High) in The ACII Affective Vocal Bursts (A-VB) 2022 Workshop \& Competition. Our proposed method contains three stages. Firstly, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Dang-Linh Trinh , Minh-Cong Vo , Guee-Sang Lee