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Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERCs) is a vital area within multimodal interaction research, dedicated to accurately identifying and classifying the emotions expressed by speakers throughout a conversation. Traditional ERC approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xinran Li , Xiaomao Fan , Qingyang Wu , Xiaojiang Peng , Ye Li

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

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a key step towards successful human-machine interaction. While the field has seen tremendous advancement in the last few years, new applications and implementation scenarios present novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Joao Paulo Carvalho

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

This paper introduces our method for the Emotional Reaction Intensity (ERI) Estimation Challenge, in CVPR 2023: 5th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). Based on the multimodal data provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Shangfei Wang , Jiaqiang Wu , Feiyi Zheng , Xin Li , Xuewei Li , Suwen Wang , Yi Wu , Yanan Chang , Xiangyu Miao

The objective of the Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation (MAFRG) task is to produce contextually appropriate and diverse listener facial behavioural responses based on the multimodal behavioural data of the conversational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Guanyu Hu , Jie Wei , Siyang Song , Dimitrios Kollias , Xinyu Yang , Zhonglin Sun , Odysseus Kaloidas

Incomplete multi-modal emotion recognition (IMER) aims at understanding human intentions and sentiments by comprehensively exploring the partially observed multi-source data. Although the multi-modal data is expected to provide more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Wen-Jue He , Xiaofeng Zhu , Zheng Zhang

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) presents unique challenges, requiring models to capture the temporal flow of multi-turn dialogues and to effectively integrate cues from multiple modalities. We propose Mixture of Speech-Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soumya Dutta , Smruthi Balaji , Sriram Ganapathy

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) integrates heterogeneous text, audio, and visual signals to infer human emotions. While recent approaches leverage cross-modal complementarity, they often struggle to fully utilize weaker modalities. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kang He , Yuzhe Ding , Xinrong Wang , Fei Li , Chong Teng , Donghong Ji

Emotional Mimicry Intensity (EMI) estimation plays a pivotal role in understanding human social behavior and advancing human-computer interaction. The core challenges lie in dynamic correlation modeling and robust fusion of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jun Yu , Lingsi Zhu , Yanjun Chi , Yunxiang Zhang , Yang Zheng , Yongqi Wang , Xilong Lu

The prevalent approach in speech emotion recognition (SER) involves integrating both audio and textual information to comprehensively identify the speaker's emotion, with the text generally obtained through automatic speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiajun He , Xiaohan Shi , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays a crucial role in enabling dialogue systems to effectively respond to user requests. The emotions in a conversation can be identified by the representations from various modalities, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Taeyang Yun , Hyunkuk Lim , Jeonghwan Lee , Min Song

With the release of increasing open-source emotion recognition datasets on social media platforms and the rapid development of computing resources, multimodal emotion recognition tasks (MER) have begun to receive widespread research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Studies on emotion recognition (ER) show that combining lexical and acoustic information results in more robust and accurate models. The majority of the studies focus on settings where both modalities are available in training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Gustavo Aguilar , Viktor Rozgić , Weiran Wang , Chao Wang

Multimodal affective computing underpins key tasks such as sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. Standard evaluations, however, often assume that textual, acoustic, and visual modalities are equally available. In real applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tien Anh Pham , Phuong-Anh Nguyen , Duc-Trong Le , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen

Multimodal emotion recognition systems rely heavily on the full availability of modalities, suffering significant performance declines when modal data is incomplete. To tackle this issue, we present the Cross-Modal Alignment,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Haoqin Sun , Shiwan Zhao , Shaokai Li , Xiangyu Kong , Xuechen Wang , Aobo Kong , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Chen , Wenjia Zeng , Yong Qin

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) has attracted growing attention with the rapid advancement of human-computer interaction. However, different modalities exhibit substantial discrepancies in semantics, quality, and availability, leading…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yan Zhuang , Minhao Liu , Yanru Zhang , Jiawen Deng , Fuji Ren

To address the limitation in multimodal emotion recognition (MER) performance arising from inter-modal information fusion, we propose a novel MER framework based on multitask learning where fusion occurs after alignment, called Foal-Net.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Yuhua Wen , Cong Wang , Ya Li

In this paper, we present our solutions for emotion recognition in the sub-challenges of Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MER2024). To mitigate the modal competition issue between audio and text, we adopt an early fusion strategy…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mengying Ge , Mingyang Li , Dongkai Tang , Pengbo Li , Kuo Liu , Shuhao Deng , Songbai Pu , Long Liu , Yang Song , Tao Zhang

Emotional Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is valuable for diagnosing health conditions such as autism and depression, and for understanding the emotions of individuals who struggle to express their feelings. Current ERC methods primarily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zijian Kang , Yueyang Li , Shengyu Gong , Weiming Zeng , Hongjie Yan , Lingbin Bian , Zhiguo Zhang , Wai Ting Siok , Nizhuan Wang