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Despite their strong performance in multimodal emotion reasoning, existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often overlook the scenarios involving emotion conflicts, where emotional cues from different modalities are inconsistent.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhiyuan Han , Beier Zhu , Yanlong Xu , Peipei Song , Xun Yang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important technology in human-computer interaction. However, achieving high performance is challenging due to emotional complexity and scarce annotated data. To tackle these challenges, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Cong Wang , Yizhong Geng , Yuhua Wen , Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Ruimin Wang , Chunfeng Wang , Hao Li , Ya Li , Wei Chen

We present a Multi-Window Data Augmentation (MWA-SER) approach for speech emotion recognition. MWA-SER is a unimodal approach that focuses on two key concepts; designing the speech augmentation method and building the deep learning model to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Sarala Padi , Dinesh Manocha , Ram D. Sriram

Continuous dimensional speech emotion recognition captures affective variation along valence, arousal, and dominance, providing finer-grained representations than categorical approaches. Yet most multimodal methods rely solely on global…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haoxun Li , Yuqing Sun , Hanlei Shi , Yu Liu , Leyuan Qu , Taihao Li

Speech emotion recognition is the task of recognizing the speaker's emotional state given a recording of their utterance. While most of the current approaches focus on inferring emotion from isolated utterances, we argue that this is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak

Emotion recognition from speech is a challenging task. Re-cent advances in deep learning have led bi-directional recur-rent neural network (Bi-RNN) and attention mechanism as astandard method for speech emotion recognition, extractingand…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Zixuan Peng , Yu Lu , Shengfeng Pan , Yunfeng Liu

In this paper, we propose a new methodology for emotional speech recognition using visual deep neural network models. We employ the transfer learning capabilities of the pre-trained computer vision deep models to have a mandate for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Waleed Ragheb , Mehdi Mirzapour , Ali Delfardi , Hélène Jacquenet , Lawrence Carbon

The continuous evolution of pre-trained speech models has greatly advanced Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, current research typically relies on utterance-level emotion labels, inadequately capturing the complexity of emotions…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Heng Lu , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a crucial role in enhancing human-computer interaction. Cross-Linguistic SER (CLSER) has been a challenging research problem due to significant variability in linguistic and acoustic features of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Ruoyu Zhao , Xiantao Jiang , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung , Tao Wang , Shaohu Zhang

There is an imminent need for guidelines and standard test sets to allow direct and fair comparisons of speech emotion recognition (SER). While resources, such as the Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture (IEMOCAP) database, have…

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task for three main reasons: 1) human emotion is abstract, which means it is hard to distinguish; 2) in general, human emotion can only be detected in some specific moments during a long…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Jun Du , Zirui Wang , Jianshu Zhang

Inspite the emerging importance of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), the state-of-the-art accuracy is quite low and needs improvement to make commercial applications of SER viable. A key underlying reason for the low accuracy is the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Julien Epps , Björn W. Schuller

Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to identify the emotions expressed by individuals through visual, language, and acoustic cues. However, most existing research assume that all modalities are available during both training and testing,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weide Liu , Huijing Zhan

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a crucial role in advancing human-computer interaction and speech processing capabilities. We introduce a novel deep-learning architecture designed specifically for the functional data model known as…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Matthieu Saumard , Abir El Haj , Thibault Napoleon

Speech emotion recognition~(SER) refers to the technique of inferring the emotional state of an individual from speech signals. SERs continue to garner interest due to their wide applicability. Although the domain is mainly founded on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sneha Das , Nicklas Leander Lund , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

We propose a framework for multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition using convolutional neural network-based feature extraction from text and visual modalities. We obtain a performance improvement of 10% over the state of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Erik Cambria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Amir Hussain , R. B. V. Subramaanyam

Analyzing individual emotions during group conversation is crucial in developing intelligent agents capable of natural human-machine interaction. While reliable emotion recognition techniques depend on different modalities (text, audio,…

The mainstream paradigm of speech emotion recognition (SER) is identifying the single emotion label of the entire utterance. This line of works neglect the emotion dynamics at fine temporal granularity and mostly fail to leverage linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Siyuan Shen , Yu Gao , Feng Liu , Hanyang Wang , Aimin Zhou

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

Emotion recognition in conversations is challenging due to the multi-modal nature of the emotion expression. We propose a hierarchical cross-attention model (HCAM) approach to multi-modal emotion recognition using a combination of recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy