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We train a unified model to perform three tasks: facial action unit detection, expression classification, and valence-arousal estimation. We address two main challenges of learning the three tasks. First, most existing datasets are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Didan Deng , Zhaokang Chen , Bertram E. Shi

Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anders Rolighed Larsen , Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Paula Petcu , Line Clemmensen

In this paper, through multi-task ensemble framework we address three problems of emotion and sentiment analysis i.e. "emotion classification & intensity", "valence, arousal & dominance for emotion" and "valence & arousal} for sentiment".…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Md Shad Akhtar , Deepanway Ghosal , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Sadao Kurohashi

Multimodal affect recognition constitutes an important aspect for enhancing interpersonal relationships in human-computer interaction. However, relevant data is hard to come by and notably costly to annotate, which poses a challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wenliang Dai , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Yejin Bang , Pascale Fung

The capability to automatically detect human stress can benefit artificial intelligent agents involved in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Stress and emotion are both human affective states, and stress has proven to have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Yiqun Yao , Michalis Papakostas , Mihai Burzo , Mohamed Abouelenien , Rada Mihalcea

We present MuMTAffect, a novel Multimodal Multitask Affective Embedding Network designed for joint emotion classification and personality prediction (re-identification) from short physiological signal segments. MuMTAffect integrates…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Meisam Jamshidi Seikavandi , Fabricio Batista Narcizo , Ted Vucurevich , Andrew Burke Dittberner , Paolo Burelli

Task-specific pre-training is essential when task representations diverge from generic pre-training features. Existing task-general pre-training EEG models struggle with complex tasks like emotion recognition due to mismatches between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qingzhu Zhang , Jiani Zhong , Zongsheng Li , Xinke Shen , Quanying Liu

Multimodal affective computing has gained increasing attention due to its broad applications in understanding human behavior and intentions, particularly in text-centric multimodal scenarios. Existing research spans diverse tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Guimin Hu , Weimin Lyu , Chang Sun , Zhihong Zhu , Lin Gui , Ruichu Cai , Erik Cambria , Hasti Seifi

The lack of data and the difficulty of multimodal fusion have always been challenges for multimodal emotion recognition (MER). In this paper, we propose to use pretrained models as upstream network, wav2vec 2.0 for audio modality and BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dekai Sun , Yancheng He , Jiqing Han

Affective behavior analysis plays an important role in human-computer interaction, customer marketing, health monitoring. ABAW Challenge and Aff-Wild2 dataset raise the new challenge for classifying basic emotions and regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Nhu-Tai Do , Tram-Tran Nguyen-Quynh , Soo-Hyung Kim

This paper aims to bring a new lightweight yet powerful solution for the task of Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis. Our motivation is to propose two architectures based on Transformers and modulation that combine the linguistic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Noé Tits , Stéphane Dupont

The development of transformer-based models has resulted in significant advances in addressing various vision and NLP-based research challenges. However, the progress made in transformer-based methods has not been effectively applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Multimodal emotion recognition is a challenging research area that aims to fuse different modalities to predict human emotion. However, most existing models that are based on attention mechanisms have difficulty in learning emotionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zihan Zhao , Yu Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Emotion recognition is a fundamental component of next-generation human-computer interaction (HCI), enabling machines to perceive, understand, and respond to users' affective states. However, existing systems often rely on single-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ziwen Zhong , Zhitao Shu , Yue Zhao

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

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har

In this paper, we address the problem of multimodal emotion recognition from multiple physiological signals. We demonstrate that a Transformer-based approach is suitable for this task. In addition, we present how such models may be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L Crowley

Facial action unit recognition is an important task for facial analysis. Owing to the complex collection environment, facial action unit recognition in the wild is still challenging. The 3rd competition on affective behavior analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shangfei Wang , Yanan Chang , Jiahe Wang

Understanding the mental state of other people is an important skill for intelligent agents and robots to operate within social environments. However, the mental processes involved in `mind-reading' are complex. One explanation of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jonathan Vitale , Mary-Anne Williams , Benjamin Johnston , Giuseppe Boccignone

This paper presents our system for the Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Challenge in the 4th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. We explore the research problems of this challenge from three aspects: 1) For obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Tenggan Zhang , Chuanhe Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Yuchen Liu , Liyu Meng , Lei Sun , Wenqiang Jiang , Fengyuan Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin