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This paper examines the integration of emotional intelligence into artificial intelligence systems, with a focus on affective computing and the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, to recognize…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Nicola Fabiano

Machine learning has been used to recognize emotions in faces, typically by looking for 8 different emotional states (neutral, happy, sad, surprise, fear, disgust, anger and contempt). We consider two approaches: feature recognition based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Siddartha Dalal , Sierra Vo , Michael Lesk , Wesley Yuan

Understanding emotions is fundamental to human interaction and experience. Humans easily infer emotions from situations or facial expressions, situations from emotions, and do a variety of other affective cognition. How adept is modern AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Kanishk Gandhi , Zoe Lynch , Jan-Philipp Fränken , Kayla Patterson , Sharon Wambu , Tobias Gerstenberg , Desmond C. Ong , Noah D. Goodman

The emergence of big data enables us to evaluate the various human emotions at places from a statistic perspective by applying affective computing. In this study, a novel framework for extracting human emotions from large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yuhao Kang , Qingyuan Jia , Song Gao , Xiaohuan Zeng , Yueyao Wang , Stephan Angsuesser , Yu Liu , Xinyue Ye , Teng Fei

A primary hypothesis that drives scientific and engineering studies is that data has structure. The dominant paradigms for describing such structure are statistics (e.g., moments, correlation functions) and signal processing (e.g.,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Alexander D. Smith , Pawel Dlotko , Victor M. Zavala

As machine learning approaches are increasingly used to augment human decision-making, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) research has explored methods for communicating system behavior to humans. However, these approaches often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Luke Guerdan , Alex Raymond , Hatice Gunes

The quantification of visual affect data (e.g. face images) is essential to build and monitor automated affect modeling systems efficiently. Considering this, this work proposes quantified facial Temporal-expressiveness Dynamics (TED) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Md Taufeeq Uddin , Shaun Canavan

Facial emotion recognition is the task to classify human emotions in face images. It is a difficult task due to high aleatoric uncertainty and visual ambiguity. A large part of the literature aims to show progress by increasing accuracy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Maryam Matin , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Humans are emotional creatures. Multiple modalities are often involved when we express emotions, whether we do so explicitly (e.g., facial expression, speech) or implicitly (e.g., text, image). Enabling machines to have emotional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Sicheng Zhao , Guoli Jia , Jufeng Yang , Guiguang Ding , Kurt Keutzer

Classification of human emotions remains an important and challenging task for many computer vision algorithms, especially in the era of humanoid robots which coexist with humans in their everyday life. Currently proposed methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Ivona Tautkute , Tomasz Trzcinski , Adam Bielski

Understanding the facial expressions of our interlocutor is important to enrich the communication and to give it a depth that goes beyond the explicitly expressed. In fact, studying one's facial expression gives insight into their hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Rim EL Cheikh , Hélène Tran , Issam Falih , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Facial expressions vary from person to person, and the brightness, contrast, and resolution of every random image are different. This is why recognizing facial expressions is very difficult. This article proposes an efficient system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Faisal Ghaffar

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a recent approach to analyze data sets from the perspective of their topological structure. Its use for time series data has been limited to the field of financial time series primarily and as a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Rodrigo Rivera-Castro , Polina Pilyugina , Alexander Pletnev , Ivan Maksimov , Wanyi Wyz , Evgeny Burnaev

Topological methods can provide a way of proposing new metrics and methods of scrutinising data, that otherwise may be overlooked. In this work, a method of quantifying the shape of data, via a topic called topological data analysis will be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-25 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

Video content is rich in semantics and has the ability to evoke various emotions in viewers. In recent years, with the rapid development of affective computing and the explosive growth of visual data, affective video content analysis (AVCA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Junxiao Xue , Jie Wang , Xuecheng Wu , Qian Zhang

Emotion recognition and classification is a very active area of research. In this paper, we present a first approach to emotion classification using persistent entropy and support vector machines. A topology-based model is applied to obtain…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-22 R. Gonzalez-Diaz , E. Paluzo-Hidalgo , J. F. Quesada

Face reading is the most intuitive aspect of emotion recognition. Unfortunately, digital analysis of facial expression requires digitally recording personal faces. As emotional analysis is particularly required in a more poised scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Suyash Shandilya , Waris Quamer

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

Sentic computing relies on well-defined affective models of different complexity - polarity to distinguish positive and negative sentiment, for example, or more nuanced models to capture expressions of human emotions. When used to measure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Albert Weichselbraun , Jakob Steixner , Adrian M. P. Braşoveanu , Arno Scharl , Max Göbel , Lyndon J. B. Nixon

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson