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Telling stories is an integral part of human communication which can evoke emotions and influence the affective states of the audience. Automatically modeling emotional trajectories in stories has thus attracted considerable scholarly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Lukas Christ , Shahin Amiriparian , Manuel Milling , Ilhan Aslan , Björn W. Schuller

Continuous affect prediction in the wild is a very interesting problem and is challenging as continuous prediction involves heavy computation. This paper presents the methodologies and techniques used in our contribution to predict…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Sowmya Rasipuram , Junaid Hamid Bhat , Anutosh Maitra

In recent times, there has been significant interest in the machine recognition of human emotions, due to the suite of applications to which this knowledge can be applied. A number of different modalities, such as speech or facial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Jonny O'Dwyer , Ronan Flynn , Niall Murray

This paper describes the development and validation of a continuous pictographic scale for self-reported assessment of affective states in virtual environments. The developed tool, called Morph A Mood (MAM), consists of a 3D character whose…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Christian Krüger , Tanja Kojić , Luis Meier , Sebastian Möller , Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

In this project, we created a database with two types of annotations used in the emotion recognition domain : Action Units and Valence Arousal to try to achieve better results than with only one model. The originality of the approach is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Valentin Richer , Dimitrios Kollias

Emotion recognition from a given music track has heavily relied on acoustic features, social tags, and metadata but is seldom focused on lyrics. There are no datasets of Indian language songs that contain both valence and arousal manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 R Guru Ravi Shanker , B Manikanta Gupta , BV Koushik , Vinoo Alluri

Automatic emotion recognition has become increasingly important with the rise of AI, especially in fields like healthcare, education, and automotive systems. However, there is a lack of multimodal datasets, particularly involving body…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Seyed Muhammad Hossein Mousavi , Atiye Ilanloo

In this paper we propose a fusion approach to continuous emotion recognition that combines visual and auditory modalities in their representation spaces to predict the arousal and valence levels. The proposed approach employs a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Juan D. S. Ortega , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro L. Koerich

Automatic facial expression recognition is an important research area in the emotion recognition and computer vision. Applications can be found in several domains such as medical treatment, driver fatigue surveillance, sociable robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sevegni Odilon Clement Allognon , Alessandro L. Koerich , Alceu de S. Britto

Human-robot collaboration (HRC) can benefit from robots' abilities to interpret human emotional states. However, current emotion recognition (ER) models in HRC often fall short, particularly due to their reliance on acted datasets and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Seung Chan Hong , Dana Kulić , Leimin Tian

Second-person neuroscience holds social cognition as embodied meaning co-regulation through reciprocal interaction, modeled here as coupled active inference with affect emerging as inference over identity-relevant surprise. Each agent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-25 Nicolas Hinrichs , Mahault Albarracin , Dimitris Bolis , Yuyue Jiang , Leonardo Christov-Moore , Leonhard Schilbach

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

Emotions have a major interactive role in defining how humans interact with their environment by encoding their perception to external events and accordingly, influencing their cognition and decision-making process. Therefore, increasing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mustaffa Alfatlawi

In recent years, deep learning has achieved innovative advancements in various fields, including the analysis of human emotions and behaviors. Initiatives such as the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Seongjae Min , Junseok Yang , Sangjun Lim , Junyong Lee , Sangwon Lee , Sejoon Lim

Current FER (Facial Expression Recognition) dataset is mostly labeled by emotion categories, such as happy, angry, sad, fear, disgust, surprise, and neutral which are limited in expressiveness. However, future affective computing requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Yun Ge

Large Language Models primarily operate through text-based inputs and outputs, yet human emotion is communicated through both verbal and non-verbal cues, including facial expressions. While Vision-Language Models analyze facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Vaibhav Mehra , Guy Laban , Hatice Gunes

Augmented reality (AR) overlays digital content onto the reality. In AR system, correct and precise estimations of user's visual fixations and head movements can enhance the quality of experience by allocating more computation resources on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Yucheng Zhu , Xiongkuo Min , DanDan Zhu , Ke Gu , Jiantao Zhou , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zhang

With the growing integration of human-computer interaction into everyday life, advances in machine learning have enabled systems to better perceive and respond to users' emotional states. Most existing affect recognition datasets focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Karim Alghoul , Faisal Mohd , Fedwa Laamarti , Hussein Al Osman , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Emotions recognition is commonly employed for health assessment. However, the typical metric for evaluation in therapy is based on patient-doctor appraisal. This process can fall into the issue of subjectivity, while also requiring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Jumana Almahmoud , Kruthika Kikkeri

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise as tools for inferring affect from visual stimuli at scale; it is not yet clear how closely their outputs align with human affective ratings. We benchmarked nine VLMs, ranging from state-of-the-art…