English
Related papers

Related papers: emotion2vec: Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Spee…

200 papers

Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz

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

Affective computing is a field of study that focuses on developing systems and technologies that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), in particular, has got a lot of attention from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Varun Sharma

When recognizing emotions from speech, we encounter two common problems: how to optimally capture emotion-relevant information from the speech signal and how to best quantify or categorize the noisy subjective emotion labels.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Sofoklis Kakouros , Themos Stafylakis , Ladislav Mosner , Lukas Burget

The domain of 3D talking head generation has witnessed significant progress in recent years. A notable challenge in this field consists in blending speech-related motions with expression dynamics, which is primarily caused by the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Federico Nocentini , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

The lack of data and the difficulty of multimodal fusion have always been challenges for multimodal emotion recognition (MER). In this paper, we propose to use pretrained models as upstream network, wav2vec 2.0 for audio modality and BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dekai Sun , Yancheng He , Jiqing Han

Effective speech emotional representations play a key role in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) and Emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) tasks. However, emotional speech samples are more difficult and expensive to acquire compared with Neutral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Shijun Wang , Jón Guðnason , Damian Borth

Recently, a variety of acoustic tasks and related applications arised. For many acoustic tasks, the labeled data size may be limited. To handle this problem, we propose an unsupervised pre-training method using Transformer based encoder to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Ruixiong Zhang , Haiwei Wu , Wubo Li , Dongwei Jiang , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Task-specific pre-training is essential when task representations diverge from generic pre-training features. Existing task-general pre-training EEG models struggle with complex tasks like emotion recognition due to mismatches between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qingzhu Zhang , Jiani Zhong , Zongsheng Li , Xinke Shen , Quanying Liu

The research and applications of multimodal emotion recognition have become increasingly popular recently. However, multimodal emotion recognition faces the challenge of lack of data. To solve this problem, we propose to use transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zihan Zhao , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang

Recognizing emotions in conversations is a challenging task due to the presence of contextual dependencies governed by self- and inter-personal influences. Recent approaches have focused on modeling these dependencies primarily via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

While Wav2Vec 2.0 has been proposed for speech recognition (ASR), it can also be used for speech emotion recognition (SER); its performance can be significantly improved using different fine-tuning strategies. Two baseline methods, vanilla…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Li-Wei Chen , Alexander Rudnicky

Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa

Image emotion classification (IEC) is a longstanding research field that has received increasing attention with the rapid progress of deep learning. Although recent advances have leveraged the knowledge encoded in pre-trained visual models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zibo Zhou , Zhengjun Zhai , Huimin Chen , Wei Dai , Hansen Yang

The goal of our research is to automatically retrieve the satisfaction and the frustration in real-life call-center conversations. This study focuses an industrial application in which the customer satisfaction is continuously tracked down…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Manon Macary , Marie Tahon , Yannick Estève , Daniel Luzzati

Speech emotion recognition has evolved from research to practical applications. Previous studies of emotion recognition from speech have focused on developing models on certain datasets like IEMOCAP. The lack of data in the domain of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Bagus Tris Atmaja , Akira Sasou

In this study, we explored application of Word2Vec and Doc2Vec for sentiment analysis of clinical discharge summaries. We applied unsupervised learning since the data sets did not have sentiment annotations. Note that unsupervised learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Qufei Chen , Marina Sokolova

Automatically assessing emotional valence in human speech has historically been a difficult task for machine learning algorithms. The subtle changes in the voice of the speaker that are indicative of positive or negative emotional states…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Jonathan Chang , Stefan Scherer

Speech emotion recognition~(SER) refers to the technique of inferring the emotional state of an individual from speech signals. SERs continue to garner interest due to their wide applicability. Although the domain is mainly founded on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sneha Das , Nicklas Leander Lund , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen