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This paper proposes a system capable of recognizing a speaker's utterance-level emotion through multimodal cues in a video. The system seamlessly integrates multiple AI models to first extract and pre-process multimodal information from the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Sun-Kyung Lee , Jong-Hwan Kim

Emotion Representation Mapping (ERM) has the goal to convert existing emotion ratings from one representation format into another one, e.g., mapping Valence-Arousal-Dominance annotations for words or sentences into Ekman's Basic Emotions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities in perception, reasoning, and generation, and are increasingly used in applications such as social robots and human-computer interaction, where understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 He Hu , Tengjin Weng , Zebang Cheng , Yu Wang , Jiachen Luo , Björn Schuller , Zheng Lian , Laizhong Cui

Emotion recognition plays a vital role in enhancing human-computer interaction. In this study, we tackle the MER-SEMI challenge of the MER2025 competition by proposing a novel multimodal emotion recognition framework. To address the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Juewen Hu , Yexin Li , Jiulin Li , Shuo Chen , Pring Wong

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

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

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

Automated emotion detection in speech is a challenging task due to the complex interdependence between words and the manner in which they are spoken. It is made more difficult by the available datasets; their small size and incompatible…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Amith Ananthram , Kailash Karthik Saravanakumar , Jessica Huynh , Homayoon Beigi

The furnishing of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has led to the emergence of numerous benchmark studies, particularly those evaluating their perception and understanding capabilities. Among these, understanding image-evoked…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lancheng Gao , Ziheng Jia , Yunhao Zeng , Wei Sun , Yiming Zhang , Wei Zhou , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

The main task of Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) is to identify the emotions in modalities, e.g., text, audio, image and video, which is a significant development direction for realizing machine intelligence. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Humans convey emotions through daily dialogues, making emotion understanding a crucial step of affective intelligence. To understand emotions in dialogues, machines are asked to recognize the emotion for an utterance (Emotion Recognition in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jiangnan Li , Zheng Lin , Lanrui Wang , Qingyi Si , Yanan Cao , Mo Yu , Peng Fu , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

Sentiment and emotion understanding are essential to applications such as human-computer interaction and depression detection. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate robust general capabilities, they face considerable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ao Li , Longwei Xu , Chen Ling , Jinghui Zhang , Pengwei Wang

The subjective perception of emotion leads to inconsistent labels from human annotators. Typically, utterances lacking majority-agreed labels are excluded when training an emotion classifier, which cause problems when encountering ambiguous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Wen Wu , Bo Li , Chao Zhang , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Qiujia Li , Junwen Bai , Tara N. Sainath , Philip C. Woodland

Existing emotion recognition methods mainly focus on enhancing performance by employing complex deep models, typically resulting in significantly higher model complexity. Although effective, it is also crucial to ensure the reliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junxiao Xue , Xiaozhen Liu , Jie Wang , Xuecheng Wu , Bin Wu

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

Emotion recognition is a key attribute for artificial intelligence systems that need to naturally interact with humans. However, the task definition is still an open problem due to the inherent ambiguity of emotions. In this paper, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Xixin Wu , Philip C. Woodland

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in Open-Vocabulary (OV) emotion recognition but often neglect fine-grained acoustic modeling. Existing methods typically use global audio encoders, failing to capture subtle, local temporal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Liyun Zhang , Xuanmeng Sha , Shuqiong Wu , Fengkai Liu

Efficient discovery of a speaker's emotional states in a multi-party conversation is significant to design human-like conversational agents. During a conversation, the cognitive state of a speaker often alters due to certain past…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Shivani Kumar , Anubhav Shrimal , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Over the past two decades, speech emotion recognition (SER) has received growing attention. To train SER systems, researchers collect emotional speech databases annotated by crowdsourced or in-house raters who select emotions from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Huang-Cheng Chou , Chi-Chun Lee

Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition plays a crucial role in applications such as human-computer interaction and social media analytics. However, current approaches struggle with cue-level perception and reasoning due to two main…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hanwen Zhang , Yao Liu , Peiyuan Jiang , Lang Junjie , Xie Jun , Yihui He , Yajiao Deng , Siyu Du , Qiao Liu