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When recognizing emotions from speech, we encounter two common problems: how to optimally capture emotion-relevant information from the speech signal and how to best quantify or categorize the noisy subjective emotion labels.…

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The emergence of artificial emotional intelligence technology is revolutionizing the fields of computers and robotics, allowing for a new level of communication and understanding of human behavior that was once thought impossible. While…

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Visual emotion recognition (VER) is a longstanding field that has garnered increasing attention with the advancement of deep neural networks. Although recent studies have achieved notable improvements by leveraging the knowledge embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Daiqing Wu , Dongbao Yang , Yu Zhou , Can Ma

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

Emotional talking-head generation has emerged as a pivotal research area at the intersection of computer vision and multimodal artificial intelligence, with its core value lying in enhancing human-computer interaction through immersive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Hanlei Shi , Leyuan Qu , Yu Liu , Di Gao , Yuhua Zheng , Taihao Li

Multimodal emotion recognition study is hindered by the lack of labelled corpora in terms of scale and diversity, due to the high annotation cost and label ambiguity. In this paper, we propose a pre-training model \textbf{MEmoBERT} for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jinming Zhao , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin , Xinchao Wang , Haizhou Li

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations remains a challenging task due to the complex interplay of textual, acoustic and visual signals. While recent models have improved performance via advanced fusion strategies, they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Guanyu Hu , Dimitrios Kollias , Xinyu Yang

Due to the complex nature of human emotions and the diversity of emotion representation methods in humans, emotion recognition is a challenging field. In this research, three input modalities, namely text, audio (speech), and video, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Minoo Shayaninasab , Bagher Babaali

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

Emotion recognition is a crucial task for human conversation understanding. It becomes more challenging with the notion of multimodal data, e.g., language, voice, and facial expressions. As a typical solution, the global- and the local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Anh-Tuan Mai , The-Son Le , Hai-Dang Kieu , Duc-Trong Le

Visual gaze estimation, with its wide-ranging application scenarios, has garnered increasing attention within the research community. Although existing approaches infer gaze solely from image signals, recent advances in visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jun Wang , Hao Ruan , Liangjian Wen , Yong Dai , Mingjie Wang

Emotion recognition has become an important field of research in the human-computer interactions domain. The latest advancements in the field show that combining visual with audio information lead to better results if compared to the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Liviu Cristian Dutu , Anamaria Radoi

Measuring the perception of visual content is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Many mathematical models have been developed to evaluate the look or quality of an image. Despite the effectiveness of such tools in quantifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jianyi Wang , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

Visual Emotion Comprehension (VEC) aims to infer sentiment polarities or emotion categories from affective cues embedded in images. In recent years, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have established a popular paradigm in VEC,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Daiqing Wu , Dongbao Yang , Can Ma , Yu Zhou

The canonical approach to video action recognition dictates a neural model to do a classic and standard 1-of-N majority vote task. They are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories, limiting their transferable ability on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Mengmeng Wang , Jiazheng Xing , Yong Liu

Research in emotion analysis is scattered across different label formats (e.g., polarity types, basic emotion categories, and affective dimensions), linguistic levels (word vs. sentence vs. discourse), and, of course, (few well-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Sven Buechel , Luise Modersohn , Udo Hahn

As text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) increasingly structures everyday interaction, a central question re-emerges with new urgency: How do users reconstruct nonverbal expression in environments where embodied cues are absent?…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Taara Kumar , Kokil Jaidka

Emotion recognition from multi-modal physiological and behavioral signals plays a pivotal role in affective computing, yet most existing models remain constrained to the prediction of singular emotions in controlled laboratory settings.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ming Li , Yong-Jin Liu , Fang Liu , Huankun Sheng , Yeying Fan , Yixiang Wei , Minnan Luo , Weizhan Zhang , Wenping Wang

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is an important and active research area. Recent work has shown the benefits of using multiple modalities (e.g., text, audio, and video) for the ERC task. In a conversation, participants tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Harsh Agarwal , Keshav Bansal , Abhinav Joshi , Ashutosh Modi

Recent advances in brain-inspired artificial intelligence have sought to align neural signals with visual semantics using multimodal models such as CLIP. However, existing methods often treat CLIP as a static feature extractor, overlooking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jiyuan Wang , Li Zhang , Haipeng Lin , Qile Liu , Gan Huang , Ziyu Li , Zhen Liang , Xia Wu