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Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-06 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L. Crowley

Emotion recognition is a challenging task due to limited availability of in-the-wild labeled datasets. Self-supervised learning has shown improvements on tasks with limited labeled datasets in domains like speech and natural language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Aparna Khare , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Shiva Sundaram

In recent years, deep learning has achieved innovative advancements in various fields, including the analysis of human emotions and behaviors. Initiatives such as the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Seongjae Min , Junseok Yang , Sangjun Lim , Junyong Lee , Sangwon Lee , Sejoon Lim

In this paper we describe our system designed for the WASSA 2018 Implicit Emotion Shared Task (IEST), which obtained 2$^{\text{nd}}$ place out of 26 teams with a test macro F1 score of $0.710$. The system is composed of a single pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Jorge A. Balazs , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Yutaka Matsuo

Understanding individual, group and event level emotions along with contextual information is crucial for analyzing a multi-person social situation. To achieve this, we frame emotion comprehension as the task of predicting fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anubhav Kataria , Surbhi Madan , Shreya Ghosh , Tom Gedeon , Abhinav Dhall

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa

Fine-grained emotion recognition is a challenging multi-label NLP task due to label overlap and class imbalance. In this work, we benchmark three modeling families on the GoEmotions dataset: a TF-IDF-based logistic regression system trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ani Harutyunyan , Sachin Kumar

The field of artificial intelligence has a strong interest in the topic of emotion recognition. The majority of extant emotion recognition models are oriented towards enhancing the precision of discrete emotion label prediction. Given the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Honghong Wang , Xupeng Jia , Jing Deng , Rong Zheng

Cognitive load, the amount of mental effort required for task completion, plays an important role in performance and decision-making outcomes, making its classification and analysis essential in various sensitive domains. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Dustin Pulver , Prithila Angkan , Paul Hungler , Ali Etemad

The stakeholders' needs in sentiment analysis for various issues, whether positive or negative, are speed and accuracy. One new challenge in sentiment analysis tasks is the limited training data, which often leads to suboptimal machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Surya Agustian , Muhammad Irfan Syah , Nurul Fatiara , Rahmad Abdillah

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

We present the first shared task on detecting the intensity of emotion felt by the speaker of a tweet. We create the first datasets of tweets annotated for anger, fear, joy, and sadness intensities using a technique called best--worst…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Saif M. Mohammad , Felipe Bravo-Marquez

Though some recent works focus on injecting sentiment knowledge into pre-trained language models, they usually design mask and reconstruction tasks in the post-training phase. In this paper, we aim to benefit from sentiment knowledge in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Qinghua Zhao , Shuai Ma , Shuo Ren

Automated emotion recognition in speech is a long-standing problem. While early work on emotion recognition relied on hand-crafted features and simple classifiers, the field has now embraced end-to-end feature learning and classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Ravi Shankar , Abdouh Harouna Kenfack , Arjun Somayazulu , Archana Venkataraman

Automated emotion detection in speech is a challenging task due to the complex interdependence between words and the manner in which they are spoken. It is made more difficult by the available datasets; their small size and incompatible…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Amith Ananthram , Kailash Karthik Saravanakumar , Jessica Huynh , Homayoon Beigi

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has been a challenging problem in spoken language processing research, because it is unclear how human emotions are connected to various components of sounds such as pitch, loudness, and energy. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

This paper addresses the problem of modeling textual conversations and detecting emotions. Our proposed model makes use of 1) deep transfer learning rather than the classical shallow methods of word embedding; 2) self-attention mechanisms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Waleed Ragheb , Jérôme Azé , Sandra Bringay , Maximilien Servajean

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

Emotion recognition is a critical aspect of human interaction. This topic garnered significant attention in the field of artificial intelligence. In this study, we investigate the performance of convolutional neural network (CNN) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Samay Nathani

Automatic emotion recognition is a challenging task. In this paper, we present our effort for the audio-video based sub-challenge of the Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) 2018 challenge, which requires participants to assign a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zheng Lian , Ya Li , Jianhua Tao , Jian Huang