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Multimodal sentiment analysis, a pivotal task in affective computing, seeks to understand human emotions by integrating cues from language, audio, and visual signals. While many recent approaches leverage complex attention mechanisms and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Nischal Mandal , Yang Li

In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to simultaneously analyze facial movements and several peripheral physiological signals to decode individualized affective experiences under positive and negative emotional contexts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yu Yin , Mohsen Nabian , Miolin Fan , ChunAn Chou , Maria Gendron , Sarah Ostadabbas

Speech has been a widely used modality in the field of affective computing. Recently however, there has been a growing interest in the use of multi-modal affective computing systems. These multi-modal systems incorporate both verbal and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Jonny O'Dwyer , Niall Murray , Ronan Flynn

Affective computing, which aims to recognize, interpret, and understand human emotions, provides benefits in healthcare, such as improving patient care and enhancing doctor-patient communication. However, there is a noticeable absence of a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yuanyuan Liu , Ke Wang , Lin Wei , Jingying Chen , Yibing Zhan , Dapeng Tao , Zhe Chen

Accurate recognition of human emotions is a crucial challenge in affective computing and human-robot interaction (HRI). Emotional states play a vital role in shaping behaviors, decisions, and social interactions. However, emotional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Youssef Mohamed , Severin Lemaignan , Arzu Guneysu , Patric Jensfelt , Christian Smith

There is an increasing consensus among re- searchers that making a computer emotionally intelligent with the ability to decode human affective states would allow a more meaningful and natural way of human-computer interactions (HCIs). One…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Maria S. Perez-Rosero , Behnaz Rezaei , Murat Akcakaya , Sarah Ostadabbas

Affect (emotion) recognition has gained significant attention from researchers in the past decade. Emotion-aware computer systems and devices have many applications ranging from interactive robots, intelligent online tutor to emotion based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Amol Patwardhan , Gerald Knapp

Synthesizing realistic data samples is of great value for both academic and industrial communities. Deep generative models have become an emerging topic in various research areas like computer vision and signal processing. Affective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Noushin Hajarolasvadi , Miguel Arjona Ramírez , Hasan Demirel

Emotion recognition has a pivotal role in affective computing and in human-computer interaction. The current technological developments lead to increased possibilities of collecting data about the emotional state of a person. In general,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Andreea Birhala , Catalin Nicolae Ristea , Anamaria Radoi , Liviu Cristian Dutu

Affective Computing is a rapidly growing field spurred by advancements in artificial intelligence, but often, held back by the inability to translate psychological theories of emotion into tractable computational models. To address this, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Desmond C. Ong , Harold Soh , Jamil Zaki , Noah D. Goodman

We present an approach utilizing Topological Data Analysis to study the structure of face poses used in affective computing, i.e., the process of recognizing human emotion. The approach uses a conditional comparison of different emotions,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Hamza Elhamdadi , Shaun Canavan , Paul Rosen

Missing diversity, equity, and inclusion elements in affective computing datasets directly affect the accuracy and fairness of emotion recognition algorithms across different groups. A literature review reveals how affective computing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Tessa Verhoef , Eduard Fosch-Villaronga

The dawn of Foundation Models has on the one hand revolutionised a wide range of research problems, and, on the other hand, democratised the access and use of AI-based tools by the general public. We even observe an incursion of these…

The wide popularity of digital photography and social networks has generated a rapidly growing volume of multimedia data (i.e., image, music, and video), resulting in a great demand for managing, retrieving, and understanding these data.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sicheng Zhao , Shangfei Wang , Mohammad Soleymani , Dhiraj Joshi , Qiang Ji

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Affective judgment in real interaction is rarely a purely local prediction problem. Emotional meaning often depends on prior trajectory, accumulated context, and multimodal evidence that may be weak, noisy, or incomplete at the current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Deliang Wen , Ke Sun , Yu Wang

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

Recent advances in neurosciences and psychology have provided evidence that affective phenomena pervade intelligence at many levels, being inseparable from the cognitionaction loop. Perception, attention, memory, learning, decisionmaking,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Luis Paulo Reis , Daria Barteneva , Nuno Lau

Emotional expressiveness captures the extent to which a person tends to outwardly display their emotions through behavior. Due to the close relationship between emotional expressiveness and behavioral health, as well as the crucial role…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Michael A. Sayette , Louis-Philippe Morency

This work presents MAD (Multimodal Affection Dataset), a multimodal emotion dataset designed for affective computing and neurophysiological modeling. MAD is built upon synchronous collection of diverse physiological signals (EEG, ECG, EOG,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Shengwei Guo , Yunqing Qiao , Wenzhan Zhang , Bo Liu , Yong Wang , Guobing Sun