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Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has considerable prospects for developing empathetic machines. For multimodal ERC, it is vital to understand context and fuse modality information in conversations. Recent graph-based fusion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Dou Hu , Xiaolong Hou , Lingwei Wei , Lianxin Jiang , Yang Mo

Multimodal emotion understanding requires effective integration of text, audio, and visual modalities for both discrete emotion recognition and continuous sentiment analysis. We present EGMF, a unified framework combining expert-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu , Xinran Li , Yu Liu

Multimodal affective computing analyzes user-generated social media content to predict emotional states. However, a critical gap remains in understanding how visual content shapes cognitive interpretations and elicits specific affective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nastaran Dab , Raziyeh Zall , Mohammadreza Kangavari

Memes are one of the most ubiquitous forms of social media communication. The study and processing of memes, which are intrinsically multimedia, is a popular topic right now. The study presented in this research is based on the Memotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Nayan Varma Alluri , Neeli Dheeraj Krishna

Emotion recognition in conversations is a challenging task that has recently gained popularity due to its potential applications. Until now, however, a large-scale multimodal multi-party emotional conversational database containing more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Soujanya Poria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Navonil Majumder , Gautam Naik , Erik Cambria , Rada Mihalcea

The automated detection of sexism in memes is a challenging task due to multimodal ambiguity, cultural nuance, and the use of humor to provide plausible deniability. Content-only models often fail to capture the complexity of human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Iván Arcos , Paolo Rosso , Elena Gomis-Vicent

Memes have gained popularity as a means to share visual ideas through the Internet and social media by mixing text, images and videos, often for humorous purposes. Research enabling automated analysis of memes has gained attention in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xiaoyu Guo , Jing Ma , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Traditional sentiment analysis has long been a unimodal task, relying solely on text. This approach overlooks non-verbal cues such as vocal tone and prosody that are essential for capturing true emotional intent. We introduce Dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sadia Abdulhalim , Muaz Albaghdadi , Moshiur Farazi

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,…

Micro-expressions (MEs) are subtle, fleeting nonverbal cues that reveal an individual's genuine emotional state. Their analysis has attracted considerable interest due to its promising applications in fields such as healthcare, criminal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Chuang Ma , Yu Pei , Jianhang Zhang , Shaokai Zhao , Bowen Ji , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Emotion recognition has a pivotal role in affective computing and in human-computer interaction. The current technological developments lead to increased possibilities of collecting data about the emotional state of a person. In general,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Andreea Birhala , Catalin Nicolae Ristea , Anamaria Radoi , Liviu Cristian Dutu

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

In-vehicle emotion recognition underpins adaptive driver-assistance systems and, ultimately, occupant safety. However, practical deployment is hindered by (i) modality fragility - poor lighting and occlusions degrade vision-based methods;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Baran Can Gül , Suraksha Nadig , Stefanos Tziampazis , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich

Emotion recognition has a wide range of applications in human-computer interaction, marketing, healthcare, and other fields. In recent years, the development of deep learning technology has provided new methods for emotion recognition.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Junwei Feng , Xueyan Fan

Emotion recognition is essential for applications in affective computing and behavioral prediction, but conventional systems relying on single-modality data often fail to capture the complexity of affective states. To address this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Jianlu Wang , Yanan Wang , Tong Liu

Hate speech is a societal problem that has significantly grown through the Internet. New forms of digital content such as image memes have given rise to spread of hate using multimodal means, being far more difficult to analyse and detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Christos Koutlis , Manos Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos

The importance of automated Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) grows the more common human-machine interactions become, which will only continue to increase dramatically with time. A common method to describe human sentiment or feeling is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Carl Norman

This paper proposes a multimodal emotion recognition system based on hybrid fusion that classifies the emotions depicted by speech utterances and corresponding images into discrete classes. A new interpretability technique has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Puneet Kumar , Sarthak Malik , Balasubramanian Raman

The rapid expansion of social media platforms has provided unprecedented access to massive amounts of multimodal user-generated content. Comprehending user emotions can provide valuable insights for improving communication and understanding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Sree Bhattacharyya , Shuhua Yang , James Z. Wang

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) plays a crucial role in visual affective computing, aiming to infer a person's emotional state based on facial data. Scientifically, facial expressions (FEs) result from the coordinated movement of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhuozhao Hu , Kaishen Yuan , Xin Liu , Zitong Yu , Yuan Zong , Jingang Shi , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang