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Emotion recognition and sentiment analysis are pivotal tasks in speech and language processing, particularly in real-world scenarios involving multi-party, conversational data. This paper presents a multimodal approach to tackle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Aref Farhadipour , Hossein Ranjbar , Masoumeh Chapariniya , Teodora Vukovic , Sarah Ebling , Volker Dellwo

In this work, we explore the emotional reactions that real-world images tend to induce by using natural language as the medium to express the rationale behind an affective response to a given visual stimulus. To embark on this journey, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Panos Achlioptas , Maks Ovsjanikov , Leonidas Guibas , Sergey Tulyakov

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

This is the Proceedings of the ACII Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop and Competition (A-VB). A-VB was a workshop-based challenge that introduces the problem of understanding emotional expression in vocal bursts -- a wide range of non-verbal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Alice Baird , Panagiotis Tzirakis , Jeffrey A. Brooks , Christopher B. Gregory , Björn Schuller , Anton Batliner , Dacher Keltner , Alan Cowen

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

Decoding emotional states from human brain activity plays an important role in brain-computer interfaces. Existing emotion decoding methods still have two main limitations: one is only decoding a single emotion category from a brain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Kaicheng Fu , Changde Du , Shengpei Wang , Huiguang He

In our multicultural world, affect-aware AI systems that support humans need the ability to perceive affect across variations in emotion expression patterns across cultures. These systems must perform well in cultural contexts without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Leena Mathur , Ralph Adolphs , Maja J Matarić

Recognising expressive behaviours in face videos is a long-standing challenge in Affective Computing. Despite significant advancements in recent years, it still remains a challenge to build a robust and reliable system for naturalistic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mani Kumar Tellamekala , Shashank Jaiswal , Thomas Smith , Timur Alamev , Gary McKeown , Anthony Brown , Michel Valstar

This paper addresses the question of emotion classification. The task consists in predicting emotion labels (taken among a set of possible labels) best describing the emotions contained in short video clips. Building on a standard framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Valentin Vielzeuf , Stéphane Pateux , Frédéric Jurie

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

Humans are skilled in reading the interlocutor's emotion from multimodal signals, including spoken words, simultaneous speech, and facial expressions. It is still a challenge to effectively decode emotions from the complex interactions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Feng Qiu , Chengyang Xie , Yu Ding , Wanzeng Kong

Emotional expressiveness captures the extent to which a person tends to outwardly display their emotions through behavior. Due to the close relationship between emotional expressiveness and behavioral health, as well as the crucial role…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Michael A. Sayette , Louis-Philippe Morency

Detection of human emotions based on facial images in real-world scenarios is a difficult task due to low image quality, variations in lighting, pose changes, background distractions, small inter-class variations, noisy crowd-sourced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sahil Naik , Soham Bagayatkar , Pavankumar Singh

There is an increasing consensus among re- searchers that making a computer emotionally intelligent with the ability to decode human affective states would allow a more meaningful and natural way of human-computer interactions (HCIs). One…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Maria S. Perez-Rosero , Behnaz Rezaei , Murat Akcakaya , Sarah Ostadabbas

Emotions play a crucial role in human behavior and decision-making, making emotion recognition a key area of interest in human-computer interaction (HCI). This study addresses the challenges of emotion recognition by integrating facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zaitian Wang , Jian He , Yu Liang , Xiyuan Hu , Tianhao Peng , Kaixin Wang , Jiakai Wang , Chenlong Zhang , Weili Zhang , Shuang Niu , Xiaoyang Xie

In this paper an accurate real-time sequence-based system for representation, recognition, interpretation, and analysis of the facial action units (AUs) and expressions is presented. Our system has the following characteristics: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-06 Mahmoud Khademi , Mohammad Hadi Kiapour , Mohammad T. Manzuri-Shalmani , Ali A. Kiaei

The study of affective computing in the wild setting is underpinned by databases. Existing multimodal emotion databases in the real-world conditions are few and small, with a limited number of subjects and expressed in a single language. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Jing Chen , Chenhui Wang , Kejun Wang , Chaoqun Yin , Cong Zhao , Tao Xu , Xinyi Zhang , Ziqiang Huang , Meichen Liu , Tao Yang

Automatic emotion recognition (ER) has recently gained lot of interest due to its potential in many real-world applications. In this context, multimodal approaches have been shown to improve performance (over unimodal approaches) by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 R Gnana Praveen , Eric Granger , Patrick Cardinal

In this research, we introduce a novel methodology for assessing Emotional Mimicry Intensity (EMI) as part of the 6th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild. Our methodology utilises the Wav2Vec 2.0…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tobias Hallmen , Fabian Deuser , Norbert Oswald , Elisabeth André

Effective human-agent interaction (HAI) relies on accurate and adaptive perception of human emotional states. While multimodal deep learning models - leveraging facial expressions, speech, and textual cues - offer high accuracy in emotion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Matvey Nepomnyaschiy , Oleg Pereziabov , Anvar Tliamov , Stanislav Mikhailov , Ilya Afanasyev