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Emotion recognition plays an important role in human-computer interaction (HCI) and has been extensively studied for decades. Although tremendous improvements have been achieved for posed expressions, recognizing human emotions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Ahmed Shehab Khan , Zhiyuan Li , James O'Reilly , Shizhong Han , Ping Liu , Min Chen , Yan Tong

Emotional intelligence in large language models (LLMs) is of great importance in Natural Language Processing. However, the previous research mainly focus on basic sentiment analysis tasks, such as emotion recognition, which is not enough to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yuyan Chen , Hao Wang , Songzhou Yan , Sijia Liu , Yueze Li , Yi Zhao , Yanghua Xiao

While deep-learning models have been shown to perform well on image-to-text datasets, it is difficult to use them in practice for captioning images. This is because captions traditionally tend to be context-dependent and offer complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shinjini Ghosh , Sagnik Anupam

Computer vision often treats human perception as homogeneous: an implicit assumption that visual stimuli are perceived similarly by everyone. This assumption is reflected in the way researchers collect datasets and train vision models. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Andre Ye , Sebastin Santy , Jena D. Hwang , Amy X. Zhang , Ranjay Krishna

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

Large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their impressive performance. While considerable research has evaluated these models from various perspectives, the extent to which LLMs can perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Guimin Hu , Hasti Seifi

There is a mismatch between psychological and computational studies on emotions. Psychological research aims at explaining and documenting internal mechanisms of these phenomena, while computational work often simplifies them into labels.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Enrica Troiano , Sofie Labat , Marco Antonio Stranisci , Viviana Patti , Rossana Damiano , Roman Klinger

Emotions are one of the important components of the human being, thus they are a valuable part of daily activities such as interaction with people, decision making and learning. For this reason, it is important to detect, recognize and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ricardo Vasquez , Diego Riofrío-Luzcando , Joe Carrion-Jumbo , Cesar Guevara

Human emotion is expressed in many communication modalities and media formats and so their computational study is equally diversified into natural language processing, audio signal analysis, computer vision, etc. Similarly, the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Vision language models (VLMs) are AI systems paired with both language and vision encoders to process multimodal input. They are capable of performing complex semantic tasks such as automatic captioning, but it remains an open question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tyler Tran , Sangeet Khemlani , J. G. Trafton

We leverage different context windows when predicting the emotion of different utterances. New modules are included to realize variable-length context: 1) two speaker-aware units, which explicitly model inner- and inter-speaker dependencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xiaochen Zhang , Daniel Tang

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are remarkable in vision-language tasks, such as image captioning and question answering, but lack the essential perception ability, i.e., object detection. In this work, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Jun Han , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is a crucial task for understanding human emotions and enabling natural human-computer interaction. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown great potential in this field, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinran Li , Yu Liu , Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu

In conflict, people use emotional expressions to shape their counterparts' thoughts, feelings, and actions. This paper explores whether automatic text emotion recognition offers insight into this influence in the context of dispute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Sushrita Rakshit , James Hale , Kushal Chawla , Jeanne M. Brett , Jonathan Gratch

This paper details the methodology and results of the EmotioNet challenge. This challenge is the first to test the ability of computer vision algorithms in the automatic analysis of a large number of images of facial expressions of emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 C. Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Ramprakash Srinivasan , Qianli Feng , Yan Wang , Aleix M. Martinez

Image emotion classification (IEC) is a longstanding research field that has received increasing attention with the rapid progress of deep learning. Although recent advances have leveraged the knowledge encoded in pre-trained visual models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zibo Zhou , Zhengjun Zhai , Huimin Chen , Wei Dai , Hansen Yang

Emotions play an essential role in human communication. Developing computer vision models for automatic recognition of emotion expression can aid in a variety of domains, including robotics, digital behavioral healthcare, and media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yang Qian , Ali Kargarandehkordi , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Saimourya Surabhi , Mohammadmahdi Honarmand , Dennis Paul Wall , Peter Washington

In a world where technology is increasingly embedded in our everyday experiences, systems that sense and respond to human emotions are elevating digital interaction. At the intersection of artificial intelligence and human-computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Karishma Hegde , Hemadri Jayalath

Modern machine learning models typically represent inputs as fixed points in a high-dimensional embedding space. While this approach has been proven powerful for a wide range of downstream tasks, it fundamentally differs from the way humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Frieda Born , Tom Neuhäuser , Lukas Muttenthaler , Brett D. Roads , Bernhard Spitzer , Andrew K. Lampinen , Matt Jones , Klaus-Robert Müller , Michael C. Mozer

The ability to represent emotion plays a significant role in human cognition and social interaction, yet the high-dimensional geometry of this affective space and its neural underpinnings remain debated. A key challenge, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Changde Du , Yizhuo Lu , Zhongyu Huang , Yi Sun , Zisen Zhou , Shaozheng Qin , Huiguang He