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Negative emotions are linked to the onset of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia, yet they are often difficult to detect through observation. Physiological signals from wearable devices offer a promising noninvasive method for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Muhammad Irfan , Anum Nawaz , Ayse Kosal Bulbul , Riku Klen , Abdulhamit Subasi , Tomi Westerlund , Wei Chen

Accurate emotion recognition is pivotal for nuanced and engaging human-computer interactions, yet remains difficult to achieve, especially in dynamic, conversation-like settings. In this study, we showcase how integrating eye-tracking data,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Meisam Jamshidi Seikavandi , Jostein Fimland , Maria Barrett , Paolo Burelli

Affect (emotion) recognition has gained significant attention from researchers in the past decade. Emotion-aware computer systems and devices have many applications ranging from interactive robots, intelligent online tutor to emotion based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Amol Patwardhan , Gerald Knapp

The convincingness of an argument does not only depend on its structure (logos), the person who makes the argument (ethos), but also on the emotion that it causes in the recipient (pathos). While the overall intensity and categorical values…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lynn Greschner , Meike Bauer , Sabine Weber , Roman Klinger

We present a model to predict fine-grained emotions along the continuous dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance (VAD) with a corpus with categorical emotion annotations. Our model is trained by minimizing the EMD (Earth Mover's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Sungjoon Park , Jiseon Kim , Seonghyeon Ye , Jaeyeol Jeon , Hee Young Park , Alice Oh

Eye-based information channels include the pupils, gaze, saccades, fixational movements, and numerous forms of eye opening and closure. Pupil size variation indicates cognitive load and emotion, while a person's gaze direction is said to be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Jonny O'Dwyer , Niall Murray , Ronan Flynn

In recent years, Affective Computing and its applications have become a fast-growing research topic. Furthermore, the rise of Deep Learning has introduced significant improvements in the emotion recognition system compared to classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Joaquim Comas , Decky Aspandi , Xavier Binefa

Affect recognition based on subjects' facial expressions has been a topic of major research in the attempt to generate machines that can understand the way subjects feel, act and react. In the past, due to the unavailability of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Physiological signals that provide the objective repression of human affective states are attracted increasing attention in the emotion recognition field. However, the single signal is difficult to obtain completely and accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jing Zhang , Yong Zhang , Suhua Zhan , Cheng Cheng

Facial expression analysis has long been an active research area of computer vision. Traditional methods mainly analyse images for prototypical discrete emotions; as a result, they do not provide an accurate depiction of the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Calvin Chen , Stefan Winkler

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved high visual fidelity, yet precise control over scene semantics and fine-grained affective tone remains challenging. Human visual affect arises from the rapid integration of contextual meaning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Li He , Longtai Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang , Yan Wang , Lizhe Qi

To describe complex emotional states, psychologists have proposed multiple emotion descriptors: sparse descriptors like facial action units; continuous descriptors like valence and arousal; and discrete class descriptors like happiness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Didan Deng

Dynamic emotion recognition in the wild remains challenging due to the transient nature of emotional expressions and temporal misalignment of multi-modal cues. Traditional approaches predict valence and arousal and often overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Vrushank Ahire , Kunal Shah , Mudasir Nazir Khan , Nikhil Pakhale , Lownish Rai Sookha , M. A. Ganaie , Abhinav Dhall

Understanding human affect from facial behavior requires not only accurate recognition but also structured reasoning over the latent dependencies that drive muscle activations and their expressive outcomes. Although Action Units (AUs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Guanyu Hu , Tangzheng Lian , Dimitrios Kollias , Oya Celiktutan , Xinyu Yang

Emotion recognition is a complex task due to the inherent subjectivity in both the perception and production of emotions. The subjectivity of emotions poses significant challenges in developing accurate and robust computational models. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Mimansa Jaiswal

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 paper proposes a process for a classification model for the facial expressions. The proposed process would aid in specific categorisation of children's emotions from 2 emotions namely 'Happy' and 'Sad'. Since the existing emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Sanchayan Vivekananthan

The project leverages advanced machine and deep learning techniques to address the challenge of emotion recognition by focusing on non-facial cues, specifically hands, body gestures, and gestures. Traditional emotion recognition systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Haoyang Liu

While sentiment analysis has advanced from sentence to aspect-level, i.e., the identification of concrete terms related to a sentiment, the equivalent field of Aspect-based Emotion Analysis (ABEA) is faced with dataset bottlenecks and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Christina Zorenböhmer , Sebastian Schmidt , Bernd Resch

The valence analysis of speakers' utterances or written posts helps to understand the activation and variations of the emotional state throughout the conversation. More recently, the concept of Emotion Carriers (EC) has been introduced to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gabriel Roccabruna , Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Giuseppe Riccardi