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Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) extracts emotions from multimodal data, including visual, speech, and text inputs, playing a key role in human-computer interaction. Attention-based fusion methods dominate MER research, achieving strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiajun He , Jinyi Mi , Tomoki Toda

Leveraging complementary relationships across modalities has recently drawn a lot of attention in multimodal emotion recognition. Most of the existing approaches explored cross-attention to capture the complementary relationships across the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 G Rajasekhar , Jahangir Alam

Emotion Prediction in Conversation (EPC) aims to forecast the emotions of forthcoming utterances by utilizing preceding dialogues. Previous EPC approaches relied on simple context modeling for emotion extraction, overlooking fine-grained…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Haoxiang Shi , Ziqi Liang , Jun Yu

Previous works on emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) follow a two-step paradigm, which can be summarized as first producing context-independent features via fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) and then analyzing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Xiangyu Qin , Zhiyu Wu , Jinshi Cui , Tingting Zhang , Yanran Li , Jian Luan , Bin Wang , Li Wang

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) and emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) are key research topics for computers to understand human behaviors. From a psychological perspective, emotions are the expression of affect or feelings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Guimin Hu , Ting-En Lin , Yi Zhao , Guangming Lu , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li

Due to the notorious modality imbalance problem, multimodal learning (MML) leads to the phenomenon of optimization imbalance, thus struggling to achieve satisfactory performance. Recently, some representative methods have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Qing-Yuan Jiang , Zhouyang Chi , Yang Yang

Compound Expression Recognition (CER), a subfield of affective computing, aims to detect complex emotional states formed by combinations of basic emotions. In this work, we present a novel zero-shot multimodal approach for CER that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Elena Ryumina , Maxim Markitantov , Alexandr Axyonov , Dmitry Ryumin , Mikhail Dolgushin , Alexey Karpov

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is a crucial task in natural language processing and affective computing. This paper proposes MultiDAG+CL, a novel approach for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) that employs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Cao-Bach Nguyen , Quang-Thuy Ha , Duc-Trong Le

Multimodal sentiment analysis relies on textual, acoustic, and visual signals, yet real-world data often suffer from modality missing and quality imbalance. Existing methods generate features for modality missing from available ones, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenglizhao Chen , Yuchen Cao , Xinyu Liu , Mengke Song , Guisheng Zhang , Xiaomin Yu

Understanding human emotions from multimodal signals poses a significant challenge in affective computing and human-robot interaction. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have excelled in general vision-language tasks, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaojiang Peng , Jingyi Chen , Zebang Cheng , Bao Peng , Fengyi Wu , Yifei Dong , Shuyuan Tu , Qiyu Hu , Huiting Huang , Yuxiang Lin , Jun-Yan He , Kai Wang , Zheng Lian , Zhi-Qi Cheng

We present our submission to the Hume-ABAW10 Emotional Mimicry Intensity (EMI) Challenge, which aims to predict six continuous emotion intensity dimensions: Admiration, Amusement, Determination, Empathic Pain, Excitement, and Joy, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dinithi Dissanayake , Shaveen Silva , Ovindu Atukorala , Prasanth Sasikumar , Suranga Nanayakkara

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) has garnered growing attention from research communities in various fields. In this paper, we propose a Cross-modal Fusion Network with Emotion-Shift Awareness (CFN-ESA) for ERC. Extant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Yingjian Liu , Zhigang Zeng

Multimodal fusion is susceptible to modality imbalance, where dominant modalities overshadow weak ones, easily leading to biased learning and suboptimal fusion, especially for incomplete modality conditions. To address this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiang Shi , Rui Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Yinpeng Liu , Qikai Cheng , Wei Lu

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality can offer. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chengyan Wu , Yiqiang Cai , Yang Liu , Pengxu Zhu , Yun Xue , Ziwei Gong , Julia Hirschberg , Bolei Ma

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

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

Analyzing individual emotions during group conversation is crucial in developing intelligent agents capable of natural human-machine interaction. While reliable emotion recognition techniques depend on different modalities (text, audio,…

Recent works on multi-modal emotion recognition move towards end-to-end models, which can extract the task-specific features supervised by the target task compared with the two-phase pipeline. However, previous methods only model the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yang Wu , Pai Peng , Zhenyu Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

We used two multimodal models for continuous valence-arousal recognition using visual, audio, and linguistic information. The first model is the same as we used in ABAW2 and ABAW3, which employs the leader-follower attention. The second…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Su Zhang , Ziyuan Zhao , Cuntai Guan

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for human-computer interaction, yet real-world challenges like dynamic modality incompleteness and asynchrony severely limit its robustness. Existing methods often assume consistently complete…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yitong Zhu , Lei Han , Guanxuan Jiang , PengYuan Zhou , Yuyang Wang