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Emotion recognition is the task of classifying perceived emotions in people. Previous works have utilized various nonverbal cues to extract features from images and correlate them to emotions. Of these cues, situational context is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Willams de Lima Costa , Estefania Talavera Martinez , Lucas Silva Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Recent innovations in self-supervised representation learning have led to remarkable advances in natural language processing. That said, in the speech processing domain, self-supervised representation learning-based systems are not yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hagai Aronowitz , Itai Gat , Edmilson Morais , Weizhong Zhu , Ron Hoory

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

People's conduct and reactions are driven by their emotions. Online social media is becoming a great instrument for expressing emotions in written form. Paying attention to the context and the entire sentence help us to detect emotion from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Fereshteh Khoshnam , Ahmad Baraani-Dastjerdi , M. J. Liaghatdar

Speech is the most natural way of expressing ourselves as humans. Identifying emotion from speech is a nontrivial task due to the ambiguous definition of emotion itself. Speaker Emotion Recognition (SER) is essential for understanding human…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pourya Jafarzadeh , Amir Mohammad Rostami , Padideh Choobdar

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task and an important step towards more natural human-machine interaction. We show that pre-trained language models can be fine-tuned for text emotion recognition, achieving an accuracy of 69.5%…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Verena Heusser , Niklas Freymuth , Stefan Constantin , Alex Waibel

The recent progress on image recognition and language modeling is making automatic description of image content a reality. However, stylized, non-factual aspects of the written description are missing from the current systems. One such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Alexander Mathews , Lexing Xie , Xuming He

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the task of discerning human emotions for each utterance within a conversation, has garnered significant attention in human-computer interaction systems. Previous ERC studies focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Lili Shan , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Li

Sarcasm Explanation in Dialogue (SED) is a new yet challenging task, which aims to generate a natural language explanation for the given sarcastic dialogue that involves multiple modalities (\ie utterance, video, and audio). Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kun Ouyang , Liqiang Jing , Xuemeng Song , Meng Liu , Yupeng Hu , Liqiang Nie

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has been a challenging problem in spoken language processing research, because it is unclear how human emotions are connected to various components of sounds such as pitch, loudness, and energy. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a typical dialogue that can effectively assist the user in mitigating emotional pressures. However, owing to the inherent subjectivity involved in analyzing emotions, current non-artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Huaiwen Zhang , Yu Chen , Ming Wang , Shi Feng

Speech Large Language Models (SLLMs) enable high-level emotion reasoning but often produce ungrounded, text-biased judgments without verifiable acoustic evidence. In contrast, self-supervised speech encoders such as WavLM provide strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Esther Sun , Bo-Hao Su , Abinay Reddy Naini , Shinji Watanabe , Carlos Busso

Capturing a video's meaning and critical concepts by analyzing the subtle details is a fundamental yet challenging task in video captioning. Identifying the dominant emotional tone in a video significantly enhances the perception of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ehsan Faghihi , Mohammedreza Zarenejad , Ali-Asghar Beheshti Shirazi

The performance of speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by the insufficient emotion information in unimodal systems and the feature alignment difficulties in multimodal systems. Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yiqing Yang , Man-Wai Mak

Transformer has obtained promising results on cognitive speech signal processing field, which is of interest in various applications ranging from emotion to neurocognitive disorder analysis. However, most works treat speech signal as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Weidong Chen , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Jianxin Pang , Lan Du

Emotion understanding is an essential but highly challenging component of artificial general intelligence. The absence of extensively annotated datasets has significantly impeded advancements in this field. We present EmotionCLIP, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sitao Zhang , Yimu Pan , James Z. Wang

It is important for machines to interpret human emotions properly for better human-machine communications, as emotion is an essential part of human-to-human communications. One aspect of emotion is reflected in the language we use. How to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Ji Ho Park

Speech emotion recognition plays an important role in various applications. However, most existing approaches predict a single emotion label, oversimplifying the inherently ambiguous nature of human emotional expression. Recent large…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaofeng Yu , Jiaheng Dong , Jean Honorio , Abhirup Ghosh , Hong Jia , Ting Dang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is typically trained and evaluated on majority-voted labels, which simplifies benchmarking but masks subjectivity and provides little transparency into why predictions are made. This neglects valid minority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Bo-Hao Su , Hui-Ying Shih , Jinchuan Tian , Jiatong Shi , Chi-Chun Lee , Carlos Busso , Shinji Watanabe

Speech emotion recognition (SER) classifies human emotions in speech with a computer model. Recently, performance in SER has steadily increased as deep learning techniques have adapted. However, unlike many domains that use speech data,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Byunggun Kim , Younghun Kwon