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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

In recent years, Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) has made substantial progress. Nevertheless, most existing approaches neglect the semantic inconsistencies that may arise across modalities, such as conflicting emotional cues between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guowei Zhong , Junjie Li , Huaiyu Zhu , Ruohong Huan , Yun Pan

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to perceive human emotions through three modes: language, vision, and audio. Previous methods primarily focused on modal fusion without adequately addressing significant distributional differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jichao Zhu , Jun Yu

Cross-modal medical image-report retrieval task plays a significant role in clinical diagnosis and various medical generative tasks. Eliminating heterogeneity between different modalities to enhance semantic consistency is the key challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zeqiang Wei , Kai Jin , Xiuzhuang Zhou

Emotion recognition is a crucial task for human conversation understanding. It becomes more challenging with the notion of multimodal data, e.g., language, voice, and facial expressions. As a typical solution, the global- and the local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Anh-Tuan Mai , The-Son Le , Hai-Dang Kieu , Duc-Trong Le

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for enabling emotionally intelligent systems that perceive and respond to human emotions. However, existing methods suffer from limited cross-modal interaction and imbalanced contributions…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zeyu Deng , Yanhui Lu , Jiashu Liao , Shuang Wu , Chongfeng Wei

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays an important role in driving the development of human-machine interaction. Emotions can exist in multiple modalities, and multimodal ERC mainly faces two problems: (1) the noise problem in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shihao Zou , Xianying Huang , Xudong Shen

Human face-to-face communication is a complex multimodal signal. We use words (language modality), gestures (vision modality) and changes in tone (acoustic modality) to convey our intentions. Humans easily process and understand…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Amir Zadeh , Paul Pu Liang , Soujanya Poria , Prateek Vij , Erik Cambria , Louis-Philippe Morency

With the advancement of artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies, multimodal emotion recognition has become a prominent research topic. However, existing methods face challenges such as heterogeneous data fusion and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Wei Dai , Dequan Zheng , Feng Yu , Yanrong Zhang , Yaohui Hou

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) significantly enhances emotion recognition performance by integrating complementary emotional cues from text, audio, and visual modalities. While existing methods commonly utilize…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xinyi Che , Wenbo Wang , Jian Guan , Qijun Zhao

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) is a crucial task for understanding human interactions, where multimodal approaches integrating language, facial expressions, and vocal tone have achieved significant progress. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Phuong-Anh Nguyen , The-Son Le , Duc-Trong Le , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

Multi-modal conversation emotion recognition (MCER) aims to recognize and track the speaker's emotional state using text, speech, and visual information in the conversation scene. Analyzing and studying MCER issues is significant to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Fangze Fu , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) is an active research field that aims to accurately recognize human emotions by fusing multiple perceptual modalities. However, inherent heterogeneity across modalities introduces distribution gaps and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Haoqin Sun , Shiwan Zhao , Xuechen Wang , Wenjia Zeng , Yong Chen , Yong Qin

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) often encounters incomplete multimodality in practical applications due to sensor failures or privacy protection requirements. While existing methods attempt to address various incomplete multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xinkui Zhao , Jinsong Shu , Yangyang Wu , Guanjie Cheng , Zihe Liu , Naibo Wang , Shuiguang Deng , Zhongle Xie , Jianwei Yin

Learning modality-fused representations and processing unaligned multimodal sequences are meaningful and challenging in multimodal emotion recognition. Existing approaches use directional pairwise attention or a message hub to fuse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ziwang Fu , Feng Liu , Hanyang Wang , Siyuan Shen , Jiahao Zhang , Jiayin Qi , Xiangling Fu , Aimin Zhou

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC), the task of identifying the emotion label for each utterance in a conversation, is vital for developing empathetic machines. Current MLLM-based MERC studies focus mainly on capturing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Liu

Emotion represents an essential aspect of human speech that is manifested in speech prosody. Speech, visual, and textual cues are complementary in human communication. In this paper, we study a hybrid fusion method, referred to as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Zexu Pan , Zhaojie Luo , Jichen Yang , Haizhou Li

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to detect the emotional status of a given expression by combining the speech and text information. Intuitively, label information should be capable of helping the model locate the salient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Peiying Wang , Sunlu Zeng , Junqing Chen , Lu Fan , Meng Chen , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

In this paper, we propose MMER, a novel Multimodal Multi-task learning approach for Speech Emotion Recognition. MMER leverages a novel multimodal network based on early-fusion and cross-modal self-attention between text and acoustic…

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