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Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predominantly rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, which fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Haoyu Chen , Lan Chen , Hao Gu , Zhuofan Wen , Shun Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Bin Liu , Rui Liu , Shan Liang , Ya Li , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

Multimodal sentiment analysis has attracted increasing attention with broad application prospects. The existing methods focuses on single modality, which fails to capture the social media content for multiple modalities. Moreover, in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Ashima Yadav , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Traditional deep learning interpretability methods which are suitable for model users cannot explain network behaviors at the global level and are inflexible at providing fine-grained explanations. As a solution, concept-based explanations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jinbin Huang , Aditi Mishra , Bum Chul Kwon , Chris Bryan

Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) aims to bridge the affective gap between visual content and human emotional responses. Despite its promise, progress in this field remains limited by the lack of open-source and interpretable datasets. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yijie Guo , Dexiang Hong , Weidong Chen , Zihan She , Cheng Ye , Xiaojun Chang , Zhendong Mao

Acoustic emotion recognition aims to categorize the affective state of the speaker and is still a difficult task for machine learning models. The difficulties come from the scarcity of training data, general subjectivity in emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Egor Lakomkin , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Machine learning is frequently used in affective computing, but presents challenges due the opacity of state-of-the-art machine learning methods. Because of the impact affective machine learning systems may have on an individual's life, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 David S. Johnson , Olya Hakobyan , Hanna Drimalla

The lack of transparency in the decision-making processes of deep learning systems presents a significant challenge in modern artificial intelligence (AI), as it impairs users' ability to rely on and verify these systems. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-18 David Debot , Pietro Barbiero , Francesco Giannini , Gabriele Ciravegna , Michelangelo Diligenti , Giuseppe Marra

In recent years, the use of bio-sensing signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), etc. have garnered interest towards applications in affective computing. The parallel trend of deep-learning has led to a huge leap…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Siddharth Siddharth , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Terrence J. Sejnowski

This paper proposes a multimodal emotion recognition system based on hybrid fusion that classifies the emotions depicted by speech utterances and corresponding images into discrete classes. A new interpretability technique has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Puneet Kumar , Sarthak Malik , Balasubramanian Raman

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

Most existing emotion analysis emphasizes which emotion arises (e.g., happy, sad, angry) but neglects the deeper why. We propose Emotion Interpretation (EI), focusing on causal factors-whether explicit (e.g., observable objects,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuxiang Lin , Jingdong Sun , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jue Wang , Haomin Liang , Zebang Cheng , Yifei Dong , Jun-Yan He , Xiaojiang Peng , Xian-Sheng Hua

Multimodal emotion recognition has attracted much attention recently. Fusing multiple modalities effectively with limited labeled data is a challenging task. Considering the success of pre-trained model and fine-grained nature of emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Junyi He , Meimei Wu , Meng Li , Xiaobo Zhu , Feng Ye

Multimodal affective computing has gained increasing attention due to its broad applications in understanding human behavior and intentions, particularly in text-centric multimodal scenarios. Existing research spans diverse tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Guimin Hu , Weimin Lyu , Chang Sun , Zhihong Zhu , Lin Gui , Ruichu Cai , Erik Cambria , Hasti Seifi

In this paper, we present a novel deep multimodal framework to predict human emotions based on sentence-level spoken language. Our architecture has two distinctive characteristics. First, it extracts the high-level features from both text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Yue Gu , Shuhong Chen , Ivan Marsic

The recent advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is transforming human-computer interaction (HCI) from surface-level exchanges into more nuanced and emotionally intelligent communication. To realize this shift, emotion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hyeongseop Rha , Jeong Hun Yeo , Yeonju Kim , Yong Man Ro

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

Emotional concepts play a huge role in our daily life since they take part into many cognitive processes: from the perception of the environment around us to different learning processes and natural communication. Social robots need to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Pablo Barros , Emilia Barakova , Stefan Wermter

Recent advances have shown promise in emotion recognition from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals by employing bi-hemispheric neural architectures that incorporate neuroscientific priors into deep learning models. However, interpretability…

We propose a novel approach to multimodal sentiment analysis using deep neural networks combining visual analysis and natural language processing. Our goal is different than the standard sentiment analysis goal of predicting whether a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Anthony Hu , Seth Flaxman

The ability to represent emotion plays a significant role in human cognition and social interaction, yet the high-dimensional geometry of this affective space and its neural underpinnings remain debated. A key challenge, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Changde Du , Yizhuo Lu , Zhongyu Huang , Yi Sun , Zisen Zhou , Shaozheng Qin , Huiguang He