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Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) systems typically outperform unimodal systems by leveraging the inter- and intra-modal relationships between, e.g., visual, textual, physiological, and auditory modalities. This paper proposes an MMER…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated strong performance in visual recognition tasks, but their inherent reliance on regular grid structures limits their capacity to model complex topological relationships and non-local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feiyue Zhao , Zhichao Zhang

The fusion technique is the key to the multimodal emotion recognition task. Recently, cross-modal attention-based fusion methods have demonstrated high performance and strong robustness. However, cross-modal attention suffers from redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Feng Liu , Ziwang Fu , Yunlong Wang , Qijian Zheng

The lack of data and the difficulty of multimodal fusion have always been challenges for multimodal emotion recognition (MER). In this paper, we propose to use pretrained models as upstream network, wav2vec 2.0 for audio modality and BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dekai Sun , Yancheng He , Jiqing Han

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays a significant part in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems since it can provide empathetic services. Multimodal ERC can mitigate the drawbacks of uni-modal approaches. Recently, Graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Guoqing Lv , Zhigang Zeng

Automatic emotion recognition (AER) is a challenging task due to the abstract concept and multiple expressions of emotion. Although there is no consensus on a definition, human emotional states usually can be apperceived by auditory and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zi-Rui Wang , Jun Du

Emotion Prediction in Conversation (EPC) aims to forecast the emotions of forthcoming utterances by utilizing preceding dialogues. Previous EPC approaches relied on simple context modeling for emotion extraction, overlooking fine-grained…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Haoxiang Shi , Ziqi Liang , Jun Yu

Characterizing materials with electron micrographs is a crucial task in fields such as semiconductors and quantum materials. The complex hierarchical structure of micrographs often poses challenges for traditional classification methods. In…

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Multimodal emotion understanding requires effective integration of text, audio, and visual modalities for both discrete emotion recognition and continuous sentiment analysis. We present EGMF, a unified framework combining expert-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu , Xinran Li , Yu Liu

The prevalent approach in speech emotion recognition (SER) involves integrating both audio and textual information to comprehensively identify the speaker's emotion, with the text generally obtained through automatic speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiajun He , Xiaohan Shi , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feng Li , Jiusong Luo , Wanjun Xia

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

Humans are skilled in reading the interlocutor's emotion from multimodal signals, including spoken words, simultaneous speech, and facial expressions. It is still a challenge to effectively decode emotions from the complex interactions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Feng Qiu , Chengyang Xie , Yu Ding , Wanzeng Kong

In computer vision tasks, features often come from diverse representations, domains (e.g., indoor and outdoor), and modalities (e.g., text, images, and videos). Effectively fusing these features is essential for robust performance,…

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Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a fundamental task to predict the emotion label from speech data. Recent works mostly focus on using convolutional neural networks~(CNNs) to learn local attention map on fixed-scale feature representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Wenjing Zhu , Xiang Li

Emotion recognition is a challenging and actively-studied research area that plays a critical role in emotion-aware human-computer interaction systems. In a multimodal setting, temporal alignment between different modalities has not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Pengfei Liu , Kun Li , Helen Meng

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) extracts emotions from multimodal data, including visual, speech, and text inputs, playing a key role in human-computer interaction. Attention-based fusion methods dominate MER research, achieving strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiajun He , Jinyi Mi , Tomoki Toda

AMR-to-text generation is used to transduce Abstract Meaning Representation structures (AMR) into text. A key challenge in this task is to efficiently learn effective graph representations. Previously, Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yan Zhang , Zhijiang Guo , Zhiyang Teng , Wei Lu , Shay B. Cohen , Zuozhu Liu , Lidong Bing

Heterogeneous graphs provide a compact, efficient, and scalable way to model data involving multiple disparate modalities. This makes modeling audiovisual data using heterogeneous graphs an attractive option. However, graph structure does…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Amir Shirian , Mona Ahmadian , Krishna Somandepalli , Tanaya Guha

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations aims to infer utterance-level emotions by jointly modeling textual, acoustic, and visual cues within context. Despite recent progress, key challenges remain, including redundant cross-modal…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Chengling Guo , Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Yun Tan , Keqin Li