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Telling stories is an integral part of human communication which can evoke emotions and influence the affective states of the audience. Automatically modeling emotional trajectories in stories has thus attracted considerable scholarly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Lukas Christ , Shahin Amiriparian , Manuel Milling , Ilhan Aslan , Björn W. Schuller

This paper presents our submission to the Expression Classification Challenge of the fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition. In our method, multimodal feature combinations extracted by several different pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chuanhe Liu , Xinjie Zhang , Xiaolong Liu , Tenggan Zhang , Liyu Meng , Yuchen Liu , Yuanyuan Deng , Wenqiang Jiang

In this paper, we present our solution and experiment result for the Multi-Task Learning Challenge of the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild(ABAW7) Competition. This challenge consists of three tasks: action unit detection, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiaodong Li , Wenchao Du , Hongyu Yang

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har

Valence-arousal (VA) estimation is crucial for capturing the nuanced nature of human emotions in naturalistic environments. While pre-trained Vision-Language models like CLIP have shown remarkable semantic alignment capabilities, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Byeongjin Jung , Chanyeong Park , Sejoon Lim

Many attempts have been made at estimating discrete emotions (calmness, anxiety, boredom, surprise, anger) and continuous emotional measures commonly used in psychology, namely `valence' (The pleasantness of the emotion being displayed) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Karthik Subramanian , Saurav Singh , Justin Namba , Jamison Heard , Christopher Kanan , Ferat Sahin

In this paper, we consider the problem of real-time video-based facial emotion analytics, namely, facial expression recognition, prediction of valence and arousal and detection of action unit points. We propose the novel frame-level emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Andrey V. Savchenko

Automatic affective recognition has been an important research topic in human computer interaction (HCI) area. With recent development of deep learning techniques and large scale in-the-wild annotated datasets, the facial emotion analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Wei Zhang , Zunhu Guo , Keyu Chen , Lincheng Li , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding

Analyzing human affect is vital for human-computer interaction systems. Most methods are developed in restricted scenarios which are not practical for in-the-wild settings. The Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) 2021 Contest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yue Jin , Tianqing Zheng , Chao Gao , Guoqiang Xu

As we exceed upon the procedures for modelling the different aspects of behaviour, expression recognition has become a key field of research in Human Computer Interactions. Expression recognition in the wild is a very interesting problem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Sowmya Rasipuram , Junaid Hamid Bhat , Anutosh Maitra

In this paper, we describe the results of the HSEmotion team in two tasks of the seventh Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition, namely, multi-task learning for simultaneous prediction of facial expression, valence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Andrey V. Savchenko

In this paper, we propose a new automatic Action Units (AUs) recognition method used in a competition, Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). Our method tackles a problem of AUs label inconsistency among subjects by using pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Junya Saito , Ryosuke Kawamura , Akiyoshi Uchida , Sachihiro Youoku , Yuushi Toyoda , Takahisa Yamamoto , Xiaoyu Mi , Kentaro Murase

Dimensional representations of speech emotions such as the arousal-valence (AV) representation provide a continuous and fine-grained description and control than their categorical counterparts. They have wide applications in tasks such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Enting Zhou , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

The ACII Affective Vocal Bursts (A-VB) competition introduces a new topic in affective computing, which is understanding emotional expression using the non-verbal sound of humans. We are familiar with emotion recognition via verbal vocal or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Dang-Khanh Nguyen , Sudarshan Pant , Ngoc-Huynh Ho , Guee-Sang Lee , Soo-Huyng Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang

We propose a cross-modal co-attention model for continuous emotion recognition using visual-audio-linguistic information. The model consists of four blocks. The visual, audio, and linguistic blocks are used to learn the spatial-temporal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Su Zhang , Ruyi An , Yi Ding , Cuntai Guan

This paper presents our approach for the VA (Valence-Arousal) estimation task in the ABAW6 competition. We devised a comprehensive model by preprocessing video frames and audio segments to extract visual and audio features. Through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jun Yu , Gongpeng Zhao , Yongqi Wang , Zhihong Wei , Yang Zheng , Zerui Zhang , Zhongpeng Cai , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

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

In this study, we present our methodology for two tasks: the Emotional Mimicry Intensity (EMI) Estimation Challenge and the Behavioural Ambivalence/Hesitancy (BAH) Recognition Challenge, both conducted as part of the 8th Workshop and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Tobias Hallmen , Robin-Nico Kampa , Fabian Deuser , Norbert Oswald , Elisabeth André

Human emotion recognition holds a pivotal role in facilitating seamless human-computer interaction. This paper delineates our methodology in tackling the Valence-Arousal (VA) Estimation Challenge, Expression (Expr) Classification Challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Weiwei Zhou , Jiada Lu , Chenkun Ling , Weifeng Wang , Shaowei Liu

Automatic understanding of human affect using visual signals is of great importance in everyday human-machine interactions. Appraising human emotional states, behaviors and reactions displayed in real-world settings, can be accomplished…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Dimitrios Kollias , Panagiotis Tzirakis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Athanasios Papaioannou , Guoying Zhao , Björn Schuller , Irene Kotsia , Stefanos Zafeiriou