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Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) in practical scenarios is significantly challenged by the presence of missing or incomplete data across different modalities. To overcome these challenges, researchers have aimed to simulate incomplete…

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Analyzing individual emotions during group conversation is crucial in developing intelligent agents capable of natural human-machine interaction. While reliable emotion recognition techniques depend on different modalities (text, audio,…

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is critical for interpreting real-world interactions. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) have shown promise in MER, their internal decision-making mechanisms under modality conflict and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yueru Sun , Yimeng Zhang , Haoyu Gu , Nuo Chen , Dong She , Xianrong Yao , Yang Gao , Zhanpeng Jin

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to accurately identify human emotional states by integrating heterogeneous modalities such as visual, auditory, and textual data. Existing approaches predominantly rely on unified emotion labels to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Wen Yin , Siyu Zhan , Cencen Liu , Xin Hu , Guiduo Duan , Xiurui Xie , Yuan-Fang Li , Tao He

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has long benefited from the adoption of deep learning methodologies. Deeper models -- with more layers and more trainable parameters -- are generally perceived as being `better' by the SER community. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Anton Batliner , Björn W. Schuller

Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection in conversation is key in several real-world applications, with an increase in modalities available aiding a better understanding of the underlying emotions. Multi-modal Emotion Detection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Aman Shenoy , Ashish Sardana

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has received a great deal of attention in recent years in the context of spontaneous conversations. While there have been notable results on datasets like the well known corpus of naturalistic dyadic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Alex-Răzvan Ispas , Théo Deschamps-Berger , Laurence Devillers

Emotion recognition in multi-speaker conversations faces significant challenges due to speaker ambiguity and severe class imbalance. We propose a novel framework that addresses these issues through three key innovations: (1) a speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiao Li , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Multimodal speech emotion recognition aims to detect speakers' emotions from audio and text. Prior works mainly focus on exploiting advanced networks to model and fuse different modality information to facilitate performance, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhen Wu , Yizhe Lu , Xinyu Dai

Since Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) can be applied to public opinion monitoring, intelligent dialogue robots, and other fields, it has received extensive research attention in recent years. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tao Meng , Fuchen Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Hongen Shao , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

SER is a challenging task due to the subjective nature of human emotions and their uneven representation under naturalistic conditions. We propose MEDUSA, a multimodal framework with a four-stage training pipeline, which effectively handles…

Cross-lingual speech emotion recognition (SER) is important for a wide range of everyday applications. While recent SER research relies heavily on large pretrained models for emotion training, existing studies often concentrate solely on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shreya G. Upadhyay , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been widely applied across various fields due to their powerful perceptual and reasoning capabilities. In the realm of psychology, these models hold promise for a deeper understanding of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jinpeng Hu , Hongchang Shi , Chongyuan Dai , Zhuo Li , Peipei Song , Meng Wang

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) and emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) are key research topics for computers to understand human behaviors. From a psychological perspective, emotions are the expression of affect or feelings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Guimin Hu , Ting-En Lin , Yi Zhao , Guangming Lu , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is the task of recognising human's emotional states from speech. SER is extremely prevalent in helping dialogue systems to truly understand our emotions and become a trustworthy human conversational partner.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhao Ren , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Yi Chang , Björn W. Schuller

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is an important research topic in human-computer interaction. Many recent works focus on directly extracting emotional cues through pre-trained knowledge, frequently overlooking considerations of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Haiyang Sun , Fulin Zhang , Yingying Gao , Zheng Lian , Shilei Zhang , Junlan Feng

Micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary facial movements revealing people's hidden feelings in high-stake situations and have practical importance in medical treatment, national security, interrogations and many human-computer interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yante Li , Jinsheng Wei , Yang Liu , Janne Kauttonen , Guoying Zhao

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has traditionally relied on categorical or dimensional labels. However, this technique is limited in representing both the diversity and interpretability of emotions. To overcome this limitation, we focus on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ryotaro Nagase , Ryoichi Takashima , Yoichi Yamashita

In real-world scenarios, audio and video signals are often subject to environmental noise and limited acquisition conditions, resulting in extracted features containing excessive noise. Furthermore, there is an imbalance in data quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ying Liu , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Tao Meng , Keqin Li

Automatic emotion recognition (AER) based on enriched multimodal inputs, including text, speech, and visual clues, is crucial in the development of emotionally intelligent machines. Although complex modality relationships have been proven…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Shuyun Tang , Zhaojie Luo , Guoshun Nan , Yuichiro Yoshikawa , Ishiguro Hiroshi