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In this paper, we present a multimodal approach to simultaneously analyze facial movements and several peripheral physiological signals to decode individualized affective experiences under positive and negative emotional contexts, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yu Yin , Mohsen Nabian , Miolin Fan , ChunAn Chou , Maria Gendron , Sarah Ostadabbas

In recent years, deep neural networks have demonstrated increasingly strong abilities to recognize objects and activities in videos. However, as video understanding becomes widely used in real-world applications, a key consideration is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Mantas Mazeika , Eric Tang , Andy Zou , Steven Basart , Jun Shern Chan , Dawn Song , David Forsyth , Jacob Steinhardt , Dan Hendrycks

Nowadays, touch remains essential for emotional conveyance and interpersonal communication as more interactions are mediated remotely. While many studies have discussed the effectiveness of using haptics to communicate emotions,…

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

Building a socially intelligent agent involves many challenges, one of which is to teach the agent to speak guided by its value like a human. However, value-driven chatbots are still understudied in the area of dialogue systems. Most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Liang Qiu , Yizhou Zhao , Jinchao Li , Pan Lu , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Song-Chun Zhu

Emotion recognition has a pivotal role in affective computing and in human-computer interaction. The current technological developments lead to increased possibilities of collecting data about the emotional state of a person. In general,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Andreea Birhala , Catalin Nicolae Ristea , Anamaria Radoi , Liviu Cristian Dutu

Conversations contain a wide spectrum of multimodal information that gives us hints about the emotions and moods of the speaker. In this paper, we developed a system that supports humans to analyze conversations. Our main contribution is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Joshua Y. Kim , Greyson Y. Kim , Kalina Yacef

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in everyday life, the ability of interactive agents to express empathy has become critical for effective human-AI interaction, particularly in emotionally sensitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sung Park , Daeho Yoon , Jungmin Lee

Analyzing individual emotions during group conversation is crucial in developing intelligent agents capable of natural human-machine interaction. While reliable emotion recognition techniques depend on different modalities (text, audio,…

Emotion recognition plays a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction, particularly in movie recommendation systems where understanding emotional content is essential. While multimodal approaches combining audio and video have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiangrui Xiong , Zhou Zhou , Guocai Nong , Junlin Deng , Ning Wu

Emotion-Cause analysis has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. However, most existing datasets are limited in size and number of emotion categories. They often focus on extracting parts of the document that contain the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Mia Huong Nguyen , Yasith Samaradivakara , Prasanth Sasikumar , Chitralekha Gupta , Suranga Nanayakkara

Previous research on empathetic dialogue systems has mostly focused on generating responses given certain emotions. However, being empathetic not only requires the ability of generating emotional responses, but more importantly, requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Jamin Shin , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

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

Teachers' emotional states are critical in educational scenarios, profoundly impacting teaching efficacy, student engagement, and learning achievements. However, existing studies often fail to accurately capture teachers' emotions due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhiyi Duan , Xiangren Wang , Hongyu Yuan , Qianli Xing

This paper explores the development of a multimodal sentiment analysis model that integrates text, audio, and visual data to enhance sentiment classification. The goal is to improve emotion detection by capturing the complex interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Hui Lee , Singh Suniljit , Yong Siang Ong

While there are many music datasets with emotion labels in the literature, they cannot be used for research on symbolic-domain music analysis or generation, as there are usually audio files only. In this paper, we present the EMOPIA…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Hsiao-Tzu Hung , Joann Ching , Seungheon Doh , Nabin Kim , Juhan Nam , Yi-Hsuan Yang

The volumetric representation of human interactions is one of the fundamental domains in the development of immersive media productions and telecommunication applications. Particularly in the context of the rapid advancement of Extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Fatemeh Ghorbani Lohesara , Davi Rabbouni Freitas , Christine Guillemot , Karen Eguiazarian , Sebastian Knorr

Emotion recognition is a core research area at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human communication analysis. It is a significant technical challenge since humans display their emotions through complex idiosyncratic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

In the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) learning scenario, the semantic information of instructional videos has a crucial impact on learners' emotional state. Learners mainly acquire knowledge by watching instructional videos, and the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yuan Zhang , Xiaomei Tao , Hanxu Ai , Tao Chen , Yanling Gan

Based on the WASSA 2022 Shared Task on Empathy Detection and Emotion Classification, we predict the level of empathic concern and personal distress displayed in essays. For the first stage of this project we implemented a Feed-Forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Manisha Singh , Divy Sharma , Alonso Ma , Nora Goldfine