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In this paper, we propose MMER, a novel Multimodal Multi-task learning approach for Speech Emotion Recognition. MMER leverages a novel multimodal network based on early-fusion and cross-modal self-attention between text and acoustic…

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant capabilities in various fields, and in areas such as human-computer interaction (HCI), embodied intelligence, and the design and animation of virtual digital humans, both…

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Multimodal sentiment analysis is a key technology in the fields of human-computer interaction and affective computing. Accurately recognizing human emotional states is crucial for facilitating smooth communication between humans and…

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Multimodal emotion recognition (MER), leveraging speech and text, has emerged as a pivotal domain within human-computer interaction, demanding sophisticated methods for effective multimodal integration. The challenge of aligning features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Xuechen Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Haoqin Sun , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Qin

Technological advancement and its omnipresent connection have pushed humans past the boundaries and limitations of a computer screen, physical state, or geographical location. It has provided a depth of avenues that facilitate…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Dayo Samuel Banjo , Connice Trimmingham , Niloofar Yousefi , Nitin Agarwal

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

In the domain of human-computer interaction, accurately recognizing and interpreting human emotions is crucial yet challenging due to the complexity and subtlety of emotional expressions. This study explores the potential for detecting a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiehui Jia , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang

In this work, we present a lightweight and privacy-preserving Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) framework designed for deployment on edge devices. To demonstrate framework's versatility, our implementation uses three modalities - speech,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rémi Grzeczkowicz , Eric Soriano , Ali Janati , Miyu Zhang , Gerard Comas-Quiles , Victor Carballo Araruna , Aneesh Jonelagadda

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC), the task of identifying the emotion label for each utterance in a conversation, is vital for developing empathetic machines. Current MLLM-based MERC studies focus mainly on capturing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Liu

One of the most significant challenges in Music Emotion Recognition (MER) comes from the fact that emotion labels can be heterogeneous across datasets with regard to the emotion representation, including categorical (e.g., happy, sad)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jaeyong Kang , Dorien Herremans

Memory systems address the challenge of context loss in Large Language Model during prolonged interactions. However, compared to human cognition, the efficacy of these systems in processing emotion-related information remains inconclusive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Peng Liu , Zhen Tao , Jihao Zhao , Ding Chen , Yansong Zhang , Cuiping Li , Zhiyu Li , Hong Chen

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires representations that effectively integrate signals from multiple modalities. These signals include modality-specific cues, information shared across modalities, and interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anh-Tuan Mai , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Duc-Trong Le

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multi- and cross-modal integration capabilities. However, their potential for fine-grained emotion understanding remains systematically underexplored.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jing Han , Zhiqiang Gao , Shihao Gao , Jialing Liu , Hongyu Chen , Zixing Zhang , Björn W. Schuller

Multimodal emotion recognition is a task of great concern. However, traditional data sets are based on fixed labels, resulting in models that often focus on main emotions and ignore detailed emotional changes in complex scenes. This report…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mengying Ge , Dongkai Tang , Mingyang Li

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

With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), they have demonstrated exceptional capabilities across a variety of vision-language tasks. However, current evaluation benchmarks predominantly focus on objective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haokun Li , Yazhou Zhang , Jizhi Ding , Qiuchi Li , Peng Zhang

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) seeks to identify the speakers' emotions expressed in each utterance, offering significant potential across diverse fields. The challenge of MERC lies in balancing speaker modeling and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zijian Yi , Ziming Zhao , Zhishu Shen , Tiehua Zhang

Emotion understanding is a core capability for LLMs to interact effectively with humans, yet existing evaluation paradigms rely on discrete emotion label prediction and fail to capture the cognitive processes underlying emotion generation.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaoyue Sun , Hainiu Xu , Andero Uusberg , James J. Gross , Petr Slovak , Yulan He

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

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun