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The continuous and increasing use of social media has enabled the expression of human thoughts, opinions, and everyday actions publicly at an unprecedented scale. We present the Vent dataset, the largest annotated dataset of text, emotions,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Nikolaos Lykousas , Costantinos Patsakis , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Vicenç Gómez

We introduce FindingEmo, a new image dataset containing annotations for 25k images, specifically tailored to Emotion Recognition. Contrary to existing datasets, it focuses on complex scenes depicting multiple people in various naturalistic,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Laurent Mertens , Elahe' Yargholi , Hans Op de Beeck , Jan Van den Stock , Joost Vennekens

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

Affective Image Manipulation (AIM) seeks to modify user-provided images to evoke specific emotional responses. This task is inherently complex due to its twofold objective: significantly evoking the intended emotion, while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jingyuan Yang , Jiawei Feng , Weibin Luo , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Visual emotion analysis (VEA) has attracted great attention recently, due to the increasing tendency of expressing and understanding emotions through images on social networks. Different from traditional vision tasks, VEA is inherently more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jingyuan Yang , Jie Li , Xiumei Wang , Yuxuan Ding , Xinbo Gao

While sentiment analysis has advanced from sentence to aspect-level, i.e., the identification of concrete terms related to a sentiment, the equivalent field of Aspect-based Emotion Analysis (ABEA) is faced with dataset bottlenecks and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Christina Zorenböhmer , Sebastian Schmidt , Bernd Resch

This paper introduces a multi-label visual emotion analysis benchmark dataset for comprehensively evaluating the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to predict the emotions evoked by images. Recent user studies report an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tianwei Chen , Takuya Furusawa , Yuki Hirakawa , Ryotaro Shimizu , Mo Fan , Takashi Wada

Affective Image Editing (AIE) aims to modify visual content to evoke targeted emotions. Although current approaches achieve impressive editing quality, they often overlook inference efficiency, which limits their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xinyi Yin , Yiduo Wang , Tingqi Hu , Meicong Si , Yunyun Shi , Shi Chen , Hao Wang , Junxiao Xue , Xuecheng Wu

This paper examines potential biases and inconsistencies in emotional evocation of images produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) models and their potential bias toward negative emotions. In particular, we assess this bias by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maneet Mehta , Cody Buntain

Art has long been a profound medium for expressing emotions. While existing image stylization methods effectively transform visual appearance, they often overlook the emotional impact carried by styles. To bridge this gap, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jingyuan Yang , Zihuan Bai , Hui Huang

Visual emotion analysis holds significant research value in both computer vision and psychology. However, existing methods for visual emotion analysis suffer from limited generalizability due to the ambiguity of emotion perception and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Chuang Chen , Xiao Sun , Zhi Liu

Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA), which aims to predict people's emotions towards different visual stimuli, has become an attractive research topic recently. Rather than a single label classification task, it is more rational to regard VEA as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jingyuan Yang , Jie Li , Leida Li , Xiumei Wang , Yuxuan Ding , Xinbo Gao

We introduce a novel multimodal emotion recognition dataset that enhances the precision of Valence-Arousal Model while accounting for individual differences. This dataset includes electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (ECG), and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xin Huang , Shiyao Zhu , Ziyu Wang , Yaping He , Hao Jin , Zhengkui Liu

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

Visual Sentiment Analysis (VSA) is a challenging task due to the vast diversity of emotionally salient images and the inherent difficulty of acquiring sufficient data to capture this variability comprehensively. Key obstacles include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Marco Blanchini , Giovanna Maria Dimitri , Benedetta Tondi , Tarcisio Lancioni , Mauro Barni

Visual emotion analysis or recognition has gained considerable attention due to the growing interest in understanding how images can convey rich semantics and evoke emotions in human perception. However, visual emotion analysis poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Rahul Singh Maharjan , Marta Romeo , Angelo Cangelosi

Metaphors play a pivotal role in expressing emotions, making them crucial for emotional intelligence. The advent of multimodal data and widespread communication has led to a proliferation of multimodal metaphors, amplifying the complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xingyuan Lu , Yuxi Liu , Dongyu Zhang , Zhiyao Wu , Jing Ren , Feng Xia

Automated affective computing in the wild setting is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing annotated databases of facial expressions in the wild are small and mostly cover discrete emotions (aka the categorical model). There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ali Mollahosseini , Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Automatic Emotion Detection (ED) aims to build systems to identify users' emotions automatically. This field has the potential to enhance HCI, creating an individualised experience for the user. However, ED systems tend to perform poorly on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Annanda Sousa , Karen Young , Mathieu D'aquin , Manel Zarrouk , Jennifer Holloway

Spontaneous datasets for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) are scarce and frequently derived from laboratory environments or staged scenarios, such as TV shows, limiting their application in real-world contexts. We developed and publicly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Lucía Gómez-Zaragozá , Rocío del Amor , María José Castro-Bleda , Valery Naranjo , Mariano Alcañiz Raya , Javier Marín-Morales