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The performance of most emotion recognition systems degrades in real-life situations ('in the wild' scenarios) where the audio is contaminated by reverberation. Our study explores new methods to alleviate the performance degradation of SER…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Ohad Cohen , Gershon Hazan , Sharon Gannot

This work explores the use of constant-Q transform based modulation spectral features (CQT-MSF) for speech emotion recognition (SER). The human perception and analysis of sound comprise of two important cognitive parts: early auditory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Premjeet Singh , Md Sahidullah , Goutam Saha

Humans use a host of signals to infer the emotional state of others. In general, computer systems that leverage signals from multiple modalities will be more robust and accurate in the same task. We present a multimodal affect and context…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Daniel McDuff , Kael Rowan , Piali Choudhury , Jessica Wolk , ThuVan Pham , Mary Czerwinski

Robustness to environmental noise is important to creating automatic speech emotion recognition systems that are deployable in the real world. Prior work on noise robustness has assumed that systems would not make use of sample-by-sample…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Alex Wilf , Emily Mower Provost

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is a crucial component in affective dialogue systems, which helps the system understand users' emotions and generate empathetic responses. However, most works focus on modeling speaker and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jingwen Hu , Yuchen Liu , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin

Multimodal emotion recognition is a task of great concern. However, traditional data sets are based on fixed labels, resulting in models that often focus on main emotions and ignore detailed emotional changes in complex scenes. This report…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mengying Ge , Dongkai Tang , Mingyang Li

Previous studies show that incorporating external information could improve the translation quality of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. However, there are inevitably noises in the external information, severely reducing the benefit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang , Zewei Sun , Rongxiang Weng , Xin-Yu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Affective judgment in real interaction is rarely a purely local prediction problem. Emotional meaning often depends on prior trajectory, accumulated context, and multimodal evidence that may be weak, noisy, or incomplete at the current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Deliang Wen , Ke Sun , Yu Wang

Emotions recognition is commonly employed for health assessment. However, the typical metric for evaluation in therapy is based on patient-doctor appraisal. This process can fall into the issue of subjectivity, while also requiring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Jumana Almahmoud , Kruthika Kikkeri

This paper proposes an approach to detect emotion from human speech employing majority voting technique over several machine learning techniques. The contribution of this work is in two folds: firstly it selects those features of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Md. Kamruzzaman Sarker , Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam , Md. Arifuzzaman

A multi-modal emotion recognition method was established by combining two-channel convolutional neural network with ring network. This method can extract emotional information effectively and improve learning efficiency. The words were…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Jiazhen Wang

With the proliferation of user-generated online videos, Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) has attracted increasing attention recently. Despite significant progress, there are still two major challenges on the way towards robust MSA: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Licai Sun , Zheng Lian , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to identify emotional states by integrating and analyzing information from multiple modalities. However, inherent modality heterogeneity and inconsistencies in emotional cues remain key challenges…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Peiyuan Jiang , Yao Liu , Qiao Liu , Zongshun Zhang , Jiaye Yang , Lu Liu , Daibing Yao

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is crucial in human-machine interactions. Mainstream approaches utilize Convolutional Neural Networks or Recurrent Neural Networks to learn local energy feature representations of speech segments from speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Xiaoyu Tang , Yixin Lin , Ting Dang , Yuanfang Zhang , Jintao Cheng

Multimodal sentiment analysis remains a challenging task due to the inherent heterogeneity across modalities. Such heterogeneity often manifests as asynchronous signals, imbalanced information between modalities, and interference from…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yadong Liu , Shangfei Wang

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

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predominantly rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, which fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Haoyu Chen , Lan Chen , Hao Gu , Zhuofan Wen , Shun Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Bin Liu , Rui Liu , Shan Liang , Ya Li , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) presents a significant yet persistent challenge in human-computer interaction. While deep learning has advanced spoken language processing, achieving high performance on limited datasets remains a critical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

Since Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) can be applied to public opinion monitoring, intelligent dialogue robots, and other fields, it has received extensive research attention in recent years. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tao Meng , Fuchen Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Hongen Shao , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Automatic emotion recognition (AER) based on enriched multimodal inputs, including text, speech, and visual clues, is crucial in the development of emotionally intelligent machines. Although complex modality relationships have been proven…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Shuyun Tang , Zhaojie Luo , Guoshun Nan , Yuichiro Yoshikawa , Ishiguro Hiroshi