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Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) has attracted increasing attention recently with the prevalence of sharing images on social networks. Since human emotions are ambiguous and subjective, it is more reasonable to address VEA in a label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jingyuan Yang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Xiumei Wang , Xinbo Gao

Visual emotion analysis (VEA) has attracted great attention recently, due to the increasing tendency of expressing and understanding emotions through images on social networks. Different from traditional vision tasks, VEA is inherently more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jingyuan Yang , Jie Li , Xiumei Wang , Yuxuan Ding , Xinbo Gao

Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) aims at finding out how people feel emotionally towards different visual stimuli, which has attracted great attention recently with the prevalence of sharing images on social networks. Since human emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jingyuan Yang , Xinbo Gao , Leida Li , Xiumei Wang , Jinshan Ding

Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) is attracting increasing attention. One of the biggest challenges of VEA is to bridge the affective gap between visual clues in a picture and the emotion expressed by the picture. As the granularity of emotions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Liwen Xu , Zhengtao Wang , Bin Wu , Simon Lui

Images shared online strongly influence emotions and public well-being. Understanding the emotions an image elicits is therefore vital for fostering healthier and more sustainable digital communities, especially during public crises. We…

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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…

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Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) aims at predicting people's emotional responses to visual stimuli. This is a promising, yet challenging, task in affective computing, which has drawn increasing attention in recent years. Most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Jingyuan Yang , Qirui Huang , Tingting Ding , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise as tools for inferring affect from visual stimuli at scale; it is not yet clear how closely their outputs align with human affective ratings. We benchmarked nine VLMs, ranging from state-of-the-art…

By utilizing label distribution learning, a probability distribution is assigned for a facial image to express a compound emotion, which effectively improves the problem of label uncertainties and noises occurred in one-hot labels. In…

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Facial emotion recognition has been typically cast as a single-label classification problem of one out of six prototypical emotions. However, that is an oversimplification that is unsuitable for representing the multifaceted spectrum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Joao Baptista Cardia Neto , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

While machine learning approaches to visual emotion recognition offer great promise, current methods consider training and testing models on small scale datasets covering limited visual emotion concepts. Our analysis identifies an important…

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Visual emotion analysis or recognition has gained considerable attention due to the growing interest in understanding how images can convey rich semantics and evoke emotions in human perception. However, visual emotion analysis poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Rahul Singh Maharjan , Marta Romeo , Angelo Cangelosi

This paper proposes a multimodal emotion recognition system, VIsual Spoken Textual Additive Net (VISTANet), to classify emotions reflected by input containing image, speech, and text into discrete classes. A new interpretability technique,…

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This paper introduces a multi-label visual emotion analysis benchmark dataset for comprehensively evaluating the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to predict the emotions evoked by images. Recent user studies report an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tianwei Chen , Takuya Furusawa , Yuki Hirakawa , Ryotaro Shimizu , Mo Fan , Takashi Wada

Understanding emotions and expressions is a task of interest across multiple disciplines, especially for improving user experiences. Contrary to the common perception, it has been shown that emotions are not discrete entities but instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Niklas Wagner , Felix Mätzler , Samed R. Vossberg , Helen Schneider , Svetlana Pavlitska , J. Marius Zöllner

Human emotion is expressed in many communication modalities and media formats and so their computational study is equally diversified into natural language processing, audio signal analysis, computer vision, etc. Similarly, the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Emotion lexica are commonly used resources to combat data poverty in automatic emotion detection. However, vocabulary coverage issues, differences in construction method and discrepancies in emotion framework and representation result in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Luna De Bruyne , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

Nowadays, short-form videos (SVs) are essential to web information acquisition and sharing in our daily life. The prevailing use of SVs to spread emotions leads to the necessity of conducting video emotion analysis (VEA) towards SVs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xuecheng Wu , Heli Sun , Junxiao Xue , Jiayu Nie , Xiangyan Kong , Ruofan Zhai , Liang He

Visual Sentiment Analysis (VSA) is a challenging task due to the vast diversity of emotionally salient images and the inherent difficulty of acquiring sufficient data to capture this variability comprehensively. Key obstacles include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Marco Blanchini , Giovanna Maria Dimitri , Benedetta Tondi , Tarcisio Lancioni , Mauro Barni

Emotion distribution learning has gained increasing attention with the tendency to express emotions through images. As for emotion ambiguity arising from humans' subjectivity, substantial previous methods generally focused on learning…

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