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Traditional psychological evaluations rely heavily on human observation and interpretation, which are prone to subjectivity, bias, fatigue, and inconsistency. To address these limitations, this work presents a multimodal emotion recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kris Kraack

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) focuses on identifying and interpreting emotions from modality-compound inputs. Closely mirroring human cognitive processes in real-world environments, MER has drawn substantial attention from both…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hongrui Zhang , Daiqing Wu , Yangyang Li , Kuien Liu , Yuhui Wang , Yu Zhou , Sicheng Zhao

Multimodal emotion recognition plays a crucial role in enhancing user experience in human-computer interaction. Over the past few decades, researchers have proposed a series of algorithms and achieved impressive progress. Although each…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zheng Lian , Licai Sun , Yong Ren , Hao Gu , Haiyang Sun , Lan Chen , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality can offer. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chengyan Wu , Yiqiang Cai , Yang Liu , Pengxu Zhu , Yun Xue , Ziwei Gong , Julia Hirschberg , Bolei Ma

Multimodal desire understanding, a task closely related to both emotion and sentiment that aims to infer human intentions from visual and textual cues, is an emerging yet underexplored task in affective computing with applications in social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wei Chen , Tongguan Wang , Feiyue Xue , Junkai Li , Hui Liu , Ying Sha

Compared to traditional sentiment analysis, which only considers text, multimodal sentiment analysis needs to consider emotional signals from multimodal sources simultaneously and is therefore more consistent with the way how humans process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Hao Yang , Yanyan Zhao , Yang Wu , Shilong Wang , Tian Zheng , Hongbo Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Wanxiang Che , Bing Qin

Understanding emotion expressed in language has a wide range of applications, from building empathetic chatbots to detecting harmful online behavior. Advancement in this area can be improved using large-scale datasets with a fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Dorottya Demszky , Dana Movshovitz-Attias , Jeongwoo Ko , Alan Cowen , Gaurav Nemade , Sujith Ravi

Empathetic response generation aims to comprehend the user emotion and then respond to it appropriately. Most existing works merely focus on what the emotion is and ignore how the emotion is evoked, thus weakening the capacity of the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jiashuo Wang , Wenjie LI , Peiqin Lin , Feiteng Mu

This paper investigates the emotional reasoning abilities of the GPT family of large language models via a component perspective. The paper first examines how the model reasons about autobiographical memories. Second, it systematically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Ala N. Tak , Jonathan Gratch

Empathy is a cognitive and emotional reaction to an observed situation of others. Empathy has recently attracted interest because it has numerous applications in psychology and AI, but it is unclear how different forms of empathy (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Damilola Omitaomu , Shabnam Tafreshi , Tingting Liu , Sven Buechel , Chris Callison-Burch , Johannes Eichstaedt , Lyle Ungar , João Sedoc

Robots and artificial agents that interact with humans should be able to do so without bias and inequity, but facial perception systems have notoriously been found to work more poorly for certain groups of people than others. In our work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Saba Akhyani , Mehryar Abbasi Boroujeni , Mo Chen , Angelica Lim

Throughout the past decade, many studies have classified human emotions using only a single sensing modality such as face video, electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), etc. The results of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Siddharth Siddharth , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Terrence J. Sejnowski

Robots in shared spaces often move in ways that are difficult for people to interpret, placing the burden on humans to adapt. High-DoF robots exhibit motion that people read as expressive, intentionally or not, making it important to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jonathan Albert Cohen , Kye Shimizu , Allen Song , Vishnu Bharath , Kent Larson , Pattie Maes

Image captioning is the process of generating a natural language description of an image. Most current image captioning models, however, do not take into account the emotional aspect of an image, which is very relevant to activities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Peter Anderson , Len Hamey

Social anxiety is a prevalent condition that affects interpersonal interactions and social functioning. Recent advances in artificial intelligence and social robotics offer new opportunities to examine social anxiety in the human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vesna Poprcova , Iulia Lefter , Matthias Wieser , Martijn Warnier , Frances Brazier

Human emotions unfold over time, and more affective computing research has to prioritize capturing this crucial component of real-world affect. Modeling dynamic emotional stimuli requires solving the twin challenges of time-series modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Desmond C. Ong , Zhengxuan Wu , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Marianne Reddan , Isabella Kahhale , Alison Mattek , Jamil Zaki

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging problem because human convey emotions in subtle and complex ways. For emotion recognition on human speech, one can either extract emotion related features from audio signals or employ speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Haiyang Xu , Hui Zhang , Kun Han , Yun Wang , Yiping Peng , Xiangang Li

The lack of an available emotion pathology database is one of the key obstacles in studying the emotion expression status of patients with dysarthria. The first Chinese multimodal emotional pathological speech database containing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Ting Zhu , Shufei Duan , Huizhi Liang , Wei Zhang

A plethora of words are used to describe the spectrum of human emotions, but how many emotions are there really, and how do they interact? Over the past few decades, several theories of emotion have been proposed, each based around the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Eugene Yuta Bann

Social media generate data on human behaviour at large scales and over long periods of time, posing a complementary approach to traditional methods in the social sciences. Millions of texts from social media can be processed with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-29 David Garcia , Max Pellert , Jana Lasser , Hannah Metzler