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This work proposes to explore a new area of dynamic speech emotion recognition. Unlike traditional methods, we assume that each audio track is associated with a sequence of emotions active at different moments in time. The study…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ilya Fedorov , Dmitry Korobchenko

Despite significant progress over the past few years, ambiguity is still a key challenge in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). It can lead to noisy and inconsistent annotation, which hinders the performance of deep learning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Quang Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has traditionally relied on categorical or dimensional labels. However, this technique is limited in representing both the diversity and interpretability of emotions. To overcome this limitation, we focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ryotaro Nagase , Ryoichi Takashima , Yoichi Yamashita

Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

Sentiment analysis in conversations has gained increasing attention in recent years for the growing amount of applications it can serve, e.g., sentiment analysis, recommender systems, and human-robot interaction. The main difference between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Wei Li , Wei Shao , Shaoxiong Ji , Erik Cambria

The Complex Emotion Recognition System (CERS) deciphers complex emotional states by examining combinations of basic emotions expressed, their interconnections, and the dynamic variations. Through the utilization of advanced algorithms, CERS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Mohammad Maftoun , Bahareh Nakisa , Roohallah Alizadehsani , Meisam Yadollahzadeh-Tabari

This paper presents our approach for the SemEval-2024 Task 10: Emotion Discovery and Reasoning its Flip in Conversations. For the Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) task, we utilize a masked-memory network along with speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shubham Patel , Divyaksh Shukla , Ashutosh Modi

The successful emotional conversation system depends on sufficient perception and appropriate expression of emotions. In a real-life conversation, humans firstly instinctively perceive emotions from multi-source information, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Ying Zhang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

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

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays a crucial role in enabling dialogue systems to effectively respond to user requests. The emotions in a conversation can be identified by the representations from various modalities, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Taeyang Yun , Hyunkuk Lim , Jeonghwan Lee , Min Song

Emotion recognition in social situations is a complex task that requires integrating information from both facial expressions and the situational context. While traditional approaches to automatic emotion recognition have focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bin Han , Cleo Yau , Su Lei , Jonathan Gratch

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) and emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) are key research topics for computers to understand human behaviors. From a psychological perspective, emotions are the expression of affect or feelings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Guimin Hu , Ting-En Lin , Yi Zhao , Guangming Lu , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li

As different people perceive others' emotional expressions differently, their annotation in terms of arousal and valence are per se subjective. To address this, these emotion annotations are typically collected by multiple annotators and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Navin Raj Prabhu , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Group-level emotion recognition (GER) is an inseparable part of human behavior analysis, aiming to recognize an overall emotion in a multi-person scene. However, the existing methods are devoted to combing diverse emotion cues while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Qing Zhu , Qirong Mao , Jialin Zhang , Xiaohua Huang , Wenming Zheng

Emotions manifest through physical experiences and bodily reactions, yet identifying such embodied emotions in text remains understudied. We present an embodied emotion classification dataset, CHEER-Ekman, extending the existing binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Phan Anh Duong , Cat Luong , Divyesh Bommana , Tianyu Jiang

Non-speech emotion recognition has a wide range of applications including healthcare, crime control and rescue, and entertainment, to name a few. Providing these applications using edge computing has great potential, however, recent studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ibrahim Malik , Siddique Latif , Sanaullah Manzoor , Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Raja Jurdak

As the use of interactive machines grow, the task of Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) became more important. If the machine-generated sentences reflect emotion, more human-like sympathetic conversations are possible. Since emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Joosung Lee , Wooin Lee

Inferring emotion status from users' queries plays an important role to enhance the capacity in voice dialogues applications. Even though several related works obtained satisfactory results, the performance can still be further improved. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Zefang Zong , Hao Li , Qi Wang

Different from the emotion recognition in individual utterances, we propose a multimodal learning framework using relation and dependencies among the utterances for conversational emotion analysis. The attention mechanism is applied to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zheng Lian , Jianhua Tao , Bin Liu , Jian Huang