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We propose a novel transfer learning method for speech emotion recognition allowing us to obtain promising results when only few training data is available. With as low as 125 examples per emotion class, we were able to reach a higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jonathan Boigne , Biman Liyanage , Ted Östrem

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task for three main reasons: 1) human emotion is abstract, which means it is hard to distinguish; 2) in general, human emotion can only be detected in some specific moments during a long…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Jun Du , Zirui Wang , Jianshu Zhang

Understanding emotions accurately is essential for fields like human-computer interaction. Due to the complexity of emotions and their multi-modal nature (e.g., emotions are influenced by facial expressions and audio), researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Qize Yang , Detao Bai , Yi-Xing Peng , Xihan Wei

Related tasks often have inter-dependence on each other and perform better when solved in a joint framework. In this paper, we present a deep multi-task learning framework that jointly performs sentiment and emotion analysis both. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Md Shad Akhtar , Dushyant Singh Chauhan , Deepanway Ghosal , Soujanya Poria , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Exploring proper way to conduct multi-speech feature fusion for cross-corpus speech emotion recognition is crucial as different speech features could provide complementary cues reflecting human emotion status. While most previous approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xueyu Liu , Jie Lin , Chao Wang

To address the limitation in multimodal emotion recognition (MER) performance arising from inter-modal information fusion, we propose a novel MER framework based on multitask learning where fusion occurs after alignment, called Foal-Net.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Yuhua Wen , Cong Wang , Ya Li

Emotion recognition is essential for applications in affective computing and behavioral prediction, but conventional systems relying on single-modality data often fail to capture the complexity of affective states. To address this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Jianlu Wang , Yanan Wang , Tong Liu

In this work, we tackle a problem of speech emotion classification. One of the issues in the area of affective computation is that the amount of annotated data is very limited. On the other hand, the number of ways that the same emotion can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Egor Lakomkin , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Automated emotion recognition in speech is a long-standing problem. While early work on emotion recognition relied on hand-crafted features and simple classifiers, the field has now embraced end-to-end feature learning and classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Ravi Shankar , Abdouh Harouna Kenfack , Arjun Somayazulu , Archana Venkataraman

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

In this paper, we propose to improve emotion recognition by combining acoustic information and conversation transcripts. On the one hand, an LSTM network was used to detect emotion from acoustic features like f0, shimmer, jitter, MFCC, etc.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Jaejin Cho , Raghavendra Pappagari , Purva Kulkarni , Jesus Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Understanding Affect from video segments has brought researchers from the language, audio and video domains together. Most of the current multimodal research in this area deals with various techniques to fuse the modalities, and mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Saurav Sahay , Shachi H Kumar , Rui Xia , Jonathan Huang , Lama Nachman

In emotion recognition from speech, a key challenge lies in identifying speech signal segments that carry the most relevant acoustic variations for discerning specific emotions. Traditional approaches compute functionals for features such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sofoklis Kakouros

Multi-modal sentiment analysis plays an important role for providing better interactive experiences to users. Each modality in multi-modal data can provide different viewpoints or reveal unique aspects of a user's emotional state. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Debapriya Banerjee , Fotios Lygerakis , Fillia Makedon

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) systems typically outperform unimodal systems by leveraging the inter- and intra-modal relationships between, e.g., visual, textual, physiological, and auditory modalities. This paper proposes an MMER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Paul Waligora , Haseeb Aslam , Osama Zeeshan , Soufiane Belharbi , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Marco Pedersoli , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful alternative to hand-crafted methods for emotion recognition on combined acoustic and text modalities. Baseline systems model emotion information in text and acoustic modes independently using Deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Darshana Priyasad , Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

Alongside acoustic information, linguistic features based on speech transcripts have been proven useful in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, due to the scarcity of emotion labelled data and the difficulty of recognizing emotional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Yuanchao Li , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Training SER models in natural, spontaneous speech is especially challenging due to the subtle expression of emotions and the unpredictable nature of real-world audio. In this paper, we present a robust system for the INTERSPEECH 2025…

Multimodal sentiment analysis, which includes both image and text data, presents several challenges due to the dissimilarities in the modalities of text and image, the ambiguity of sentiment, and the complexities of contextual meaning. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sumana Biswas , Karen Young , Josephine Griffith

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the uncertainty of human emotional expression and the heterogeneity gap between different modalities. Audio and text modalities are particularly important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Joshua Reiss