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Humans are emotional creatures. Multiple modalities are often involved when we express emotions, whether we do so explicitly (e.g., facial expression, speech) or implicitly (e.g., text, image). Enabling machines to have emotional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Sicheng Zhao , Guoli Jia , Jufeng Yang , Guiguang Ding , Kurt Keutzer

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 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

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) aims to help the machine to understand human's subjective emotion from only audio information. However, extracting and utilizing comprehensive in-depth audio information is still a challenging task. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Heqing Zou , Yuke Si , Chen Chen , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) seeks to identify the speakers' emotions expressed in each utterance, offering significant potential across diverse fields. The challenge of MERC lies in balancing speaker modeling and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zijian Yi , Ziming Zhao , Zhishu Shen , Tiehua Zhang

This paper proposes a multimodal emotion recognition system based on hybrid fusion that classifies the emotions depicted by speech utterances and corresponding images into discrete classes. A new interpretability technique has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Puneet Kumar , Sarthak Malik , Balasubramanian Raman

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires representations that effectively integrate signals from multiple modalities. These signals include modality-specific cues, information shared across modalities, and interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anh-Tuan Mai , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Duc-Trong Le

This paper addresses data quality issues in multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) through systematic quality control and multi-stage transfer learning. We implement a quality control pipeline for MELD and IEMOCAP datasets…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Zanxu Wang , Homayoon Beigi

Multimodal sentiment analysis, a pivotal task in affective computing, seeks to understand human emotions by integrating cues from language, audio, and visual signals. While many recent approaches leverage complex attention mechanisms and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Nischal Mandal , Yang Li

Categorical speech emotion recognition is typically performed as a sequence-to-label problem, i.e., to determine the discrete emotion label of the input utterance as a whole. One of the main challenges in practice is that most of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Shuiyang Mao , P. C. Ching , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Tan Lee

Multi-modal multi-label emotion recognition (MMER) aims to identify relevant emotions from multiple modalities. The challenge of MMER is how to effectively capture discriminative features for multiple labels from heterogeneous data. Recent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Cheng Peng , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

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

The Music Emotion Recognition (MER) field has seen steady developments in recent years, with contributions from feature engineering, machine learning, and deep learning. The landscape has also shifted from audio-centric systems to bimodal…

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) identifies emotional states across text, audio and video, which is essential for intelligent dialogue systems and opinion analysis. Existing methods emphasize heterogeneous modal fusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jiagen Li , Rui Yu , Huihao Huang , Huaicheng Yan

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

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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feng Li , Jiusong Luo , Wanjun Xia

Multimodal emotion recognition utilizes complete multimodal information and robust multimodal joint representation to gain high performance. However, the ideal condition of full modality integrity is often not applicable in reality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Qi Fan , Hongyu Yuan , Haolin Zuo , Rui Liu , Guanglai Gao

Accurate emotion perception is crucial for various applications, including human-computer interaction, education, and counseling. However, traditional single-modality approaches often fail to capture the complexity of real-world emotional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zebang Cheng , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Yan He , Jingdong Sun , Kai Wang , Yuxiang Lin , Zheng Lian , Xiaojiang Peng , Alexander Hauptmann