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Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a typical dialogue that can effectively assist the user in mitigating emotional pressures. However, owing to the inherent subjectivity involved in analyzing emotions, current non-artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Huaiwen Zhang , Yu Chen , Ming Wang , Shi Feng

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays an important role in driving the development of human-machine interaction. Emotions can exist in multiple modalities, and multimodal ERC mainly faces two problems: (1) the noise problem in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shihao Zou , Xianying Huang , Xudong Shen

Improving the effectiveness of human-robot interaction requires social robots to accurately infer human goals through robust intention understanding. This challenge is particularly critical in multimodal settings, where agents must…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hamed Rahimi , Clemence Grislain , Adrien Jacquet Cretides , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

The ConferencingSpeech 2021 challenge is proposed to stimulate research on far-field multi-channel speech enhancement for video conferencing. The challenge consists of two separate tasks: 1) Task 1 is multi-channel speech enhancement with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Wei Rao , Yihui Fu , Yanxin Hu , Xin Xu , Yvkai Jv , Jiangyu Han , Zhongjie Jiang , Lei Xie , Yannan Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Zheng-Hua Tan , Hui Bu , Tao Yu , Shidong Shang

Talking face generation has gained significant attention as a core application of generative models. To enhance the expressiveness and realism of synthesized videos, emotion editing in talking face video plays a crucial role. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chanhyuk Choi , Taesoo Kim , Donggyu Lee , Siyeol Jung , Taehwan Kim

Emotional state recognition through speech is being a very interesting research topic nowadays. Using subliminal information of speech, denominated as prosody, it is possible to recognize the emotional state of the person. One of the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Inma Mohino-Herranz , Roberto Gil-Pita , Sagrario Alonso-Diaz , Manuel Rosa-Zurera

Students' academic emotions significantly influence their social behavior and learning performance. Traditional approaches to automatically and accurately analyze these emotions have predominantly relied on supervised machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Deliang Wang , Chao Yang , Gaowei Chen

Emotion recognition in conversations is a challenging task that has recently gained popularity due to its potential applications. Until now, however, a large-scale multimodal multi-party emotional conversational database containing more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Soujanya Poria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Navonil Majumder , Gautam Naik , Erik Cambria , Rada Mihalcea

This research aims at identifying the unknown emotion using speaker cues. In this study, we identify the unknown emotion using a two-stage framework. The first stage focuses on identifying the speaker who uttered the unknown emotion, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Ismail Shahin

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly relied upon for complex multi-turn conversations across diverse real-world applications. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on single-turn evaluations, overlooking the models'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Wai-Chung Kwan , Xingshan Zeng , Yuxin Jiang , Yufei Wang , Liangyou Li , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Kam-Fai Wong

Speech foundation models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in speech-related tasks. Nevertheless, these models often struggle with non-verbal audio data, such as vocalizations, baby crying, etc., which are critical for various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Alkis Koudounas , Moreno La Quatra , Marco Sabato Siniscalchi , Elena Baralis

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

Micro-expression recognition plays a pivotal role in understanding hidden emotions and has applications across various fields. Traditional recognition methods assume access to all training data at once, but real-world scenarios involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhengqin Lai , Xiaopeng Hong , Yabin Wang , Xiaobai Li

In this paper, we present X-Voice, a 0.4B multilingual zero-shot voice cloning model that clones arbitrary voices and enables everyone to speak 30 languages. X-Voice is trained on a 420K-hour multilingual corpus using the International…

The performance of speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by the insufficient emotion information in unimodal systems and the feature alignment difficulties in multimodal systems. Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yiqing Yang , Man-Wai Mak

Speech Large Language Models (SpeechLLMs) process spoken input directly, retaining cues such as accent and perceived gender that were previously removed in cascaded pipelines. This introduces speaker identity dependent variation in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Shree Harsha Bokkahalli Satish , Christoph Minixhofer , Maria Teleki , James Caverlee , Ondřej Klejch , Peter Bell , Gustav Eje Henter , Éva Székely

Emotion recognition plays a vital role in enhancing human-computer interaction. In this study, we tackle the MER-SEMI challenge of the MER2025 competition by proposing a novel multimodal emotion recognition framework. To address the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Juewen Hu , Yexin Li , Jiulin Li , Shuo Chen , Pring Wong

Existing 3D facial emotion modeling have been constrained by limited emotion classes and insufficient datasets. This paper introduces "Emo3D", an extensive "Text-Image-Expression dataset" spanning a wide spectrum of human emotions, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mahshid Dehghani , Amirahmad Shafiee , Ali Shafiei , Neda Fallah , Farahmand Alizadeh , Mohammad Mehdi Gholinejad , Hamid Behroozi , Jafar Habibi , Ehsaneddin Asgari

The VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) at Interspeech 2020 offers a challenging evaluation for speaker recognition systems, which includes celebrities playing different parts in movies. The goal of this work is robust speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Yoohwan Kwon , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

Expressive synthetic speech is essential for many human-computer interaction and audio broadcast scenarios, and thus synthesizing expressive speech has attracted much attention in recent years. Previous methods performed the expressive…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yi Lei , Shan Yang , Xinsheng Wang , Lei Xie