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What matters for contrastive learning? We argue that contrastive learning heavily relies on informative features, or "hard" (positive or negative) features. Early works include more informative features by applying complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Jiangmeng Li , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Bing Su , Hui Xiong

The ambiguity of human emotions poses several challenges for machine learning models, as they often overlap and lack clear delineating boundaries. Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has emerged as a key technique for…

Emotion recognition (ER) technology is an integral part for developing innovative applications such as drowsiness detection and health monitoring that plays a pivotal role in contemporary society. This study delves into ER using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Haseeb ur Rahman Abbasi , Zeeshan Rashid , Muhammad Majid , Syed Muhammad Anwar

Multi-modal semantic understanding requires integrating information from different modalities to extract users' real intention behind words. Most previous work applies a dual-encoder structure to separately encode image and text, but fails…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ming Zhang , Ke Chang , Yunfang Wu

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…

Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis is critical for brain-computer interfaces and neuroscience, but the intrinsic noise and high dimensionality of EEG signals hinder effective feature learning. We propose a self-supervised framework based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Yinghao Wang , Lintao Xu , Shujian Yu , Enzo Tartaglione , Van-Tam Nguyen

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the use of supervised detection methods of major depressive disorder (MDD) based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. However, the process of labeling MDD remains challenging. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Li-Xuan Zhao , Chen-Yang Xu , Wen-Qiang Li , Bo Wang , Rong-Xing Wei , Qing-Hao Menga

Datasets for biosignals, such as electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG), often have noisy labels and have limited number of subjects (<100). To handle these challenges, we propose a self-supervised approach based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Joseph Y. Cheng , Hanlin Goh , Kaan Dogrusoz , Oncel Tuzel , Erdrin Azemi

Motivated by the challenge of seamless cross-dataset transfer in EEG signal processing, this article presents an exploratory study on the use of Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs). In recent years, self-supervised learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Pierre Guetschel , Thomas Moreau , Michael Tangermann

Contrastive learning techniques have been widely used in the field of computer vision as a means of augmenting datasets. In this paper, we extend the use of these contrastive learning embeddings to sentiment analysis tasks and demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ipsita Mohanty , Ankit Goyal , Alex Dotterweich

Electroencephalography (EEG) is shown to be a valuable data source for evaluating subjects' mental states. However, the interpretation of multi-modal EEG signals is challenging, as they suffer from poor signal-to-noise-ratio, are highly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 David Bethge , Philipp Hallgarten , Ozan Özdenizci , Ralf Mikut , Albrecht Schmidt , Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl

Early detection of mental disorder is crucial as it enables prompt intervention and treatment, which can greatly improve outcomes for individuals suffering from debilitating mental affliction. The recent proliferation of mental health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Ai-Te Kuo , Haiquan Chen , Yu-Hsuan Kuo , Wei-Shinn Ku

This paper tackles the problem of subject adaptive EEG-based visual recognition. Its goal is to accurately predict the categories of visual stimuli based on EEG signals with only a handful of samples for the target subject during training.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Pilhyeon Lee , Sunhee Hwang , Jewook Lee , Minjung Shin , Seogkyu Jeon , Hyeran Byun

This paper explores the development of a multimodal sentiment analysis model that integrates text, audio, and visual data to enhance sentiment classification. The goal is to improve emotion detection by capturing the complex interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Hui Lee , Singh Suniljit , Yong Siang Ong

We propose a new representation learning solution for the classification of cognitive load based on Electroencephalogram (EEG). Our method integrates both time and frequency domains by first passing the raw EEG signals through the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Prithila Angkan , Amin Jalali , Paul Hungler , Ali Etemad

Facial expression recognition has been an active research area over the past few decades, and it is still challenging due to the high intra-class variation. Traditional approaches for this problem rely on hand-crafted features such as SIFT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

Enhancing feature transferability by matching marginal distributions has led to improvements in domain adaptation, although this is at the expense of feature discrimination. In particular, the ideal joint hypothesis error in the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Changhwa Park , Jonghyun Lee , Jaeyoon Yoo , Minhoe Hur , Sungroh Yoon

Imbalanced electrocardiogram (ECG) data hampers the efficacy and resilience of algorithms in the automated processing and interpretation of cardiovascular diagnostic information, which in turn impedes deep learning-based ECG classification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Haijian Shao , Wei Liu , Xing Deng , Daze Lu

Recent advances in brain-inspired artificial intelligence have sought to align neural signals with visual semantics using multimodal models such as CLIP. However, existing methods often treat CLIP as a static feature extractor, overlooking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jiyuan Wang , Li Zhang , Haipeng Lin , Qile Liu , Gan Huang , Ziyu Li , Zhen Liang , Xia Wu

Electroencephalography-based Emotion Recognition (EEG-ER) has become a growing research area in recent years. Analyzing 216 papers published between 2018 and 2023, we uncover that the field lacks a unified evaluation protocol, which is…