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Emotion recognition in multi-speaker conversations faces significant challenges due to speaker ambiguity and severe class imbalance. We propose a novel framework that addresses these issues through three key innovations: (1) a speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiao Li , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

For speech emotion datasets, it has been difficult to acquire large quantities of reliable data and acted emotions may be over the top compared to less expressive emotions displayed in everyday life. Lately, larger datasets with natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Rosanna Milner , Md Asif Jalal , Raymond W. M. Ng , Thomas Hain

This paper investigates the performance of Deep Learning for speech emotion classification when the speech is compounded with noise. It reports on the classification accuracy and concludes with the future directions for achieving greater…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Rajib Rana

In this work, we explore the impact of visual modality in addition to speech and text for improving the accuracy of the emotion detection system. The traditional approaches tackle this task by fusing the knowledge from the various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Seunghyun Yoon , Subhadeep Dey , Hwanhee Lee , Kyomin Jung

Speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly for naturally expressed emotions, remains a challenging computational task. Key challenges include the inherent subjectivity in emotion annotation and the imbalanced distribution of emotion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tiantian Feng , Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a key step towards successful human-machine interaction. While the field has seen tremendous advancement in the last few years, new applications and implementation scenarios present novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Joao Paulo Carvalho

Humans use a host of signals to infer the emotional state of others. In general, computer systems that leverage signals from multiple modalities will be more robust and accurate in the same task. We present a multimodal affect and context…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Daniel McDuff , Kael Rowan , Piali Choudhury , Jessica Wolk , ThuVan Pham , Mary Czerwinski

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems rely on speech input and emotional labels annotated by humans. However, various emotion databases collect perceptional evaluations in different ways. For instance, the IEMOCAP dataset uses video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Huang-Cheng Chou , Haibin Wu , Hung-yi Lee , Chi-Chun Lee

There are two paradigms of emotion representation, categorical labeling and dimensional description in continuous space. Therefore, the emotion recognition task can be treated as a classification or regression. The main aim of this study is…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Meysam Shamsi , Marie Tahon

Research on multilingual speech emotion recognition faces the problem that most available speech corpora differ from each other in important ways, such as annotation methods or interaction scenarios. These inconsistencies complicate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Michael Neumann , Ngoc Thang Vu

Emotion significantly impacts our daily behaviors and interactions. While recent generative AI models, such as large language models, have shown impressive performance in various tasks, it remains unclear whether they truly comprehend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng Li , Jindong Wang , Yixuan Zhang , Kaijie Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Wenxin Hou , Jianxun Lian , Fang Luo , Qiang Yang , Xing Xie

In this paper we explore audiovisual emotion recognition under noisy acoustic conditions with a focus on speech features. We attempt to answer the following research questions: (i) How does speech emotion recognition perform on noisy data?…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Michael Neumann , Ngoc Thang Vu

Speech information can be roughly decomposed into four components: language content, timbre, pitch, and rhythm. Obtaining disentangled representations of these components is useful in many speech analysis and generation applications.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , David Cox , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Different from the emotion recognition in individual utterances, we propose a multimodal learning framework using relation and dependencies among the utterances for conversational emotion analysis. The attention mechanism is applied to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zheng Lian , Jianhua Tao , Bin Liu , Jian Huang

Emotion and intent recognition from speech is essential and has been widely investigated in human-computer interaction. The rapid development of social media platforms, chatbots, and other technologies has led to a large volume of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Sheng Li , Tanja Schultz

Speech emotion analysis is an important task which further enables several application use cases. The non-verbal sounds within speech utterances also play a pivotal role in emotion analysis in speech. Due to the widespread use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Subham Banga , Ujjwal Upadhyay , Piyush Agarwal , Aniket Sharma , Prerana Mukherjee

Human emotional speech is, by its very nature, a variant signal. This results in dynamics intrinsic to automatic emotion classification based on speech. In this work, we explore a spectral decomposition method stemming from fluid-dynamics,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Shuiyang Mao , P. C. Ching , Tan Lee

Human communication is the vocal and non verbal signal to communicate with others. Human expression is a significant biometric object in picture and record databases of surveillance systems. Face appreciation has a serious role in biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 P. Deivendran , P. Suresh Babu , G. Malathi , K. Anbazhagan , R. Senthil Kumar

Facial expression-based human emotion recognition is a critical research area in psychology and medicine. State-of-the-art classification performance is only reached by end-to-end trained neural networks. Nevertheless, such black-box models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tim Büchner , Niklas Penzel , Orlando Guntinas-Lichius , Joachim Denzler

During speech perception, a listener's electroencephalogram (EEG) reflects acoustic-level processing as well as higher-level cognitive factors such as speech comprehension and attention. However, decoding speech from EEG recordings is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Mike Thornton , Danilo Mandic , Tobias Reichenbach