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Emotion estimation in music listening is confronting challenges to capture the emotion variation of listeners. Recent years have witnessed attempts to exploit multimodality fusing information from musical contents and physiological signals…

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The study of Music Cognition and neural responses to music has been invaluable in understanding human emotions. Brain signals, though, manifest a highly complex structure that makes processing and retrieving meaningful features challenging,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Kleanthis Avramidis , Christos Garoufis , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

Much of the appeal of music lies in its power to convey emotions/moods and to evoke them in listeners. In consequence, the past decade witnessed a growing interest in modeling emotions from musical signals in the music information retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Ju-Chiang Wang , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Hsin-Min Wang

The goal of this study is to develop and analyze multimodal models for predicting experienced affective responses of viewers watching movie clips. We develop hybrid multimodal prediction models based on both the video and audio of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Ha Thi Phuong Thao , Dorien Herremans , Gemma Roig

Multimodal music emotion recognition (MMER) is an emerging discipline in music information retrieval that has experienced a surge in interest in recent years. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rashini Liyanarachchi , Aditya Joshi , Erik Meijering

This study explores the application of recurrent neural networks to recognize emotions conveyed in music, aiming to enhance music recommendation systems and support therapeutic interventions by tailoring music to fit listeners' emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xinyu Chang , Xiangyu Zhang , Haoruo Zhang , Yulu Ran

Emotion understanding is critical for making Large Language Models (LLMs) more general, reliable, and aligned with humans. Art conveys emotion through the joint design of visual and auditory elements, yet most prior work is human-centered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dengming Zhang , Weitao You , Jingxiong Li , Weishen Lin , Wenda Shi , Xue Zhao , Heda Zuo , Junxian Wu , Lingyun Sun

In affective neuroscience and emotion-aware AI, understanding how complex auditory stimuli drive emotion arousal dynamics remains unresolved. This study introduces a computational framework to model the brain's encoding of naturalistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Guandong Pan , Yaqian Yang , Shi Chen , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Shaoting Tang

Despite outstanding contribution to the significant progress of Artificial Intelligence (AI), deep learning models remain mostly black boxes, which are extremely weak in explainability of the reasoning process and prediction results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sheng Shi , Xinfeng Zhang , Wei Fan

Deep Learning models have shown very promising results in automatically composing polyphonic music pieces. However, it is very hard to control such models in order to guide the compositions towards a desired goal. We are interested in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lucas N. Ferreira , Jim Whitehead

Current computational-emotion research has focused on applying acoustic properties to analyze how emotions are perceived mathematically or used in natural language processing machine learning models. While recent interest has focused on…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Daniel Szelogowski

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a collaborative scientific study that help to build innovative information research themes, novel frameworks, and developing connected delivery mechanisms in addition to making the world's massive…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Shah Riya Chiragkumar

Identifying emotion from speech is a non-trivial task pertaining to the ambiguous definition of emotion itself. In this work, we adopt a feature-engineering based approach to tackle the task of speech emotion recognition. Formalizing our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Gaurav Sahu

Local explanation methods such as LIME have become popular in MIR as tools for generating post-hoc, model-agnostic explanations of a model's classification decisions. The basic idea is to identify a small set of human-understandable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Verena Praher , Katharina Prinz , Arthur Flexer , Gerhard Widmer

Recommendation systems have become essential in modern music streaming platforms, due to the vast amount of content available. A common approach in recommendation systems is collaborative filtering, which suggests content to users based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Terence Zeng

Symbolic Music Emotion Recognition(SMER) is to predict music emotion from symbolic data, such as MIDI and MusicXML. Previous work mainly focused on learning better representation via (mask) language model pre-training but ignored the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jibao Qiu , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) represent a significant leap towards empathetic agents, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in emotion understanding. However, the internal mechanisms governing how LVLMs translate abstract visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chengsheng Zhang , Chenghao Sun , Zhining Xie , Xinmei Tian

Despite recent advances in audio content-based music emotion recognition, a question that remains to be explored is whether an algorithm can reliably discern emotional or expressive qualities between different performances of the same…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Shreyan Chowdhury , Gerhard Widmer

Large language models (LLMs) show promising capabilities in predicting human emotions from text. However, the mechanisms through which these models process emotional stimuli remain largely unexplored. Our study addresses this gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ala N. Tak , Amin Banayeeanzade , Anahita Bolourani , Mina Kian , Robin Jia , Jonathan Gratch

Recent advances in audio-text large language models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for music understanding and generation. However, existing benchmarks are limited in scope, often relying on simplified tasks or multi-choice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Yinghao Ma , Siyou Li , Juntao Yu , Emmanouil Benetos , Akira Maezawa