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In this paper, we introduce a pretrained audio-visual Transformer trained on more than 500k utterances from nearly 4000 celebrities from the VoxCeleb2 dataset for human behavior understanding. The model aims to capture and extract useful…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Minh Tran , Mohammad Soleymani

Facial valence/arousal, expression and action unit are related tasks in facial affective analysis. However, the tasks only have limited performance in the wild due to the various collected conditions. The 4th competition on affective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yanan Chang , Yi Wu , Xiangyu Miao , Jiahe Wang , Shangfei Wang

Audiovisual emotion recognition (AVER) aims to infer human emotions from nonverbal visual-audio (VA) cues, offering modality-complementary and language-agnostic advantages. However, AVER remains challenging due to the inherent ambiguity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hao Cheng , Zhiwei Zhao , Yichao He , Zhenzhen Hu , Jia Li , Meng Wang , Richang Hong

The continuous improvement of human-computer interaction technology makes it possible to compute emotions. In this paper, we introduce our submission to the CVPR 2023 Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). Sentiment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tao Shu , Xinke Wang , Ruotong Wang , Chuang Chen , Yixin Zhang , Xiao Sun

Affective computing plays a key role in human-computer interactions, entertainment, teaching, safe driving, and multimedia integration. Major breakthroughs have been made recently in the areas of affective computing (i.e., emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yan Wang , Wei Song , Wei Tao , Antonio Liotta , Dawei Yang , Xinlei Li , Shuyong Gao , Yixuan Sun , Weifeng Ge , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Speech is the most natural way of expressing ourselves as humans. Identifying emotion from speech is a nontrivial task due to the ambiguous definition of emotion itself. Speaker Emotion Recognition (SER) is essential for understanding human…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pourya Jafarzadeh , Amir Mohammad Rostami , Padideh Choobdar

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

Multimodal analysis has recently drawn much interest in affective computing, since it can improve the overall accuracy of emotion recognition over isolated uni-modal approaches. The most effective techniques for multimodal emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 R. Gnana Praveen , Eric Granger , Patrick Cardinal

Automated affective computing in the wild setting is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing annotated databases of facial expressions in the wild are small and mostly cover discrete emotions (aka the categorical model). There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ali Mollahosseini , Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Nonverbal vocalizations (NVs), such as laughter and sighs, are central to the expression of affective cues in emotional speech synthesis. However, learning diverse and contextually aligned NVs remains challenging in open settings due to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Deok-Hyeon Cho , Hyung-Seok Oh , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

While Wav2Vec 2.0 has been proposed for speech recognition (ASR), it can also be used for speech emotion recognition (SER); its performance can be significantly improved using different fine-tuning strategies. Two baseline methods, vanilla…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Li-Wei Chen , Alexander Rudnicky

Vocal Bursts -- short, non-speech vocalizations that convey emotions, such as laughter, cries, sighs, moans, and groans -- are an often-overlooked aspect of speech emotion recognition, but an important aspect of human vocal communication.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Fred W. Buhl

Human affective behavior analysis has received much attention in human-computer interaction (HCI). In this paper, we introduce our submission to the CVPR 2022 Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). To fully exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wei Zhang , Feng Qiu , Suzhen Wang , Hao Zeng , Zhimeng Zhang , Rudong An , Bowen Ma , Yu Ding

In this paper, we present our solution and experiment result for the Multi-Task Learning Challenge of the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild(ABAW7) Competition. This challenge consists of three tasks: action unit detection, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiaodong Li , Wenchao Du , Hongyu Yang

In this work, we describe our method for tackling the valence-arousal estimation challenge from ABAW2 ICCV-2021 Competition. The competition organizers provide an in-the-wild Aff-Wild2 dataset for participants to analyze affective behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Hong-Xia Xie , I-Hsuan Li , Ling Lo , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

In the field of affective computing, traditional methods for generating emotions predominantly rely on deep learning techniques and large-scale emotion datasets. However, deep learning techniques are often complex and difficult to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Haidong Wang , Qia Shan , JianHua Zhang , PengFei Xiao , Ao Liu

Human affective behavior analysis focuses on analyzing human expressions or other behaviors to enhance the understanding of human psychology. The CVPR 2023 Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) is dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Wei Zhang , Bowen Ma , Feng Qiu , Yu Ding

Accomplishments in the field of artificial intelligence are utilized in the advancement of computing and making of intelligent machines for facilitating mankind and improving user experience. Emotions are rudimentary for people, affecting…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Asfand Ali , Danial Nasir , Mohammad Hassan Jawad

The integration of information across multiple modalities and across time is a promising way to enhance the emotion recognition performance of affective systems. Much previous work has focused on instantaneous emotion recognition. The 2018…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Didan Deng , Yuqian Zhou , Jimin Pi , Bertram E. Shi

Word vector representations are a crucial part of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human Computer Interaction. In this paper, we propose a novel word vector representation, Confusion2Vec, motivated from the human speech production and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Panayiotis Georgiou