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Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is crucial in developing sympathetic human-machine interaction. In conversational videos, emotion can be present in multiple modalities, i.e., audio, video, and transcript. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Vishal Chudasama , Purbayan Kar , Ashish Gudmalwar , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Naoyuki Onoe

An important challenge in emotion recognition is to develop methods that can leverage unlabeled training data. In this paper, we propose the VQ-MAE-AV model, a self-supervised multimodal model that leverages masked autoencoders to learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Samir Sadok , Simon Leglaive , Renaud Séguier

In the latest social networks, more and more people prefer to express their emotions in videos through text, speech, and rich facial expressions. Multimodal video emotion analysis techniques can help understand users' inner world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Qinglan Wei , Xuling Huang , Yuan Zhang

Emotion classification of speech and assessment of the emotion strength are required in applications such as emotional text-to-speech and voice conversion. The emotion attribute ranking function based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) was…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Rui Liu , Berrak Sisman , Björn Schuller , Guanglai Gao , Haizhou Li

The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2016) "Depression, Mood and Emotion" will be the sixth competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Michel Valstar , Jonathan Gratch , Bjorn Schuller , Fabien Ringeval , Denis Lalanne , Mercedes Torres Torres , Stefan Scherer , Guiota Stratou , Roddy Cowie , Maja Pantic

Large, pre-trained neural networks consisting of self-attention layers (transformers) have recently achieved state-of-the-art results on several speech emotion recognition (SER) datasets. These models are typically pre-trained in…

Understanding emotions in natural language is inherently a multi-dimensional reasoning problem, where multiple affective signals interact through context, interpersonal relations, and situational cues. However, most existing emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hemanth Kotaprolu , Kishan Maharaj , Raey Zhao , Abhijit Mishra , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Transfer learning has been widely used in natural language processing through deep pretrained language models, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and Universal Sentence Encoder. Despite the great success,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Maryam Hasan , Elke Rundensteiner , Emmanuel Agu

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

Recent advances in zero-shot voice conversion have exhibited potential in emotion control, yet the performance is suboptimal or inconsistent due to their limited expressive capacity. We propose Emotion-Aware Prefix for explicit emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Haoyuan Yang , Mu Yang , Jiamin Xie , Szu-Jui Chen , John H. L. Hansen

Emotion recognition based on Electroencephalography (EEG) has gained significant attention and diversified development in fields such as neural signal processing and affective computing. However, the unique brain anatomy of individuals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Yihang Dong , Xuhang Chen , Yanyan Shen , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Tao Qian , Shuqiang Wang

In this paper, we present our solutions for emotion recognition in the sub-challenges of Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MER2024). To mitigate the modal competition issue between audio and text, we adopt an early fusion strategy…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mengying Ge , Mingyang Li , Dongkai Tang , Pengbo Li , Kuo Liu , Shuhao Deng , Songbai Pu , Long Liu , Yang Song , Tao Zhang

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

Recently, many efforts have been made to explore how the brain processes speech using electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, where deep learning-based approaches were shown to be applicable in this field. In order to decode speech signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Qiushi Zhu , Xiaoying Zhao , Jie Zhang , Yu Gu , Chao Weng , Yuchen Hu

We propose a nonparallel data-driven emotional speech conversion method. It enables the transfer of emotion-related characteristics of a speech signal while preserving the speaker's identity and linguistic content. Most existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jian Gao , Deep Chakraborty , Hamidou Tembine , Olaitan Olaleye

We investigate the effect and usefulness of spontaneity (i.e. whether a given speech is spontaneous or not) in speech in the context of emotion recognition. We hypothesize that emotional content in speech is interrelated with its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-15 Karttikeya Mangalam , Tanaya Guha

Data-driven models achieve successful results in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, these models, which are often based on general acoustic features or end-to-end approaches, show poor performance when the testing set has a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Duowei Tang , Peter Kuppens , Lucca Geurts , Toon van Waterschoot

In expressive speech synthesis, there are high requirements for emotion interpretation. However, it is time-consuming to acquire emotional audio corpus for arbitrary speakers due to their deduction ability. In response to this problem, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Pengfei Wu , Junjie Pan , Chenchang Xu , Junhui Zhang , Lin Wu , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

Existing 3D facial emotion modeling have been constrained by limited emotion classes and insufficient datasets. This paper introduces "Emo3D", an extensive "Text-Image-Expression dataset" spanning a wide spectrum of human emotions, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mahshid Dehghani , Amirahmad Shafiee , Ali Shafiei , Neda Fallah , Farahmand Alizadeh , Mohammad Mehdi Gholinejad , Hamid Behroozi , Jafar Habibi , Ehsaneddin Asgari

Automatic emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is crucial for emotion-aware conversational artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a distribution-based framework that formulates ERC as a sequence-to-sequence problem for emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland