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In this paper, we propose a solution for the semi-supervised learning track (MER-SEMI) in MER2024. First, in order to enhance the performance of the feature extractor on sentiment classification tasks,we fine-tuned video and text feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Pujin Shi , Fei Gao

The pre-training for language models captures general language understanding but fails to distinguish the affective impact of a particular context to a specific word. Recent works have sought to introduce contrastive learning (CL) for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jin Wang , Liang-Chih Yu , Xuejie Zhang

Multimodal emotion recognition plays a key role in many domains, including mental health monitoring, educational interaction, and human-computer interaction. However, existing methods often face three major challenges: unbalanced category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Feng Li , Ke Wu , Yongwei Li

Modality representation learning is an important problem for multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA), since the highly distinguishable representations can contribute to improving the analysis effect. Previous works of MSA have usually focused…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Peipei Liu , Xin Zheng , Hong Li , Jie Liu , Yimo Ren , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

A key requirement for the success of supervised deep learning is a large labeled dataset - a condition that is difficult to meet in medical image analysis. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can help in this regard by providing a strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

Despite the success of contrastive learning in Music Information Retrieval, the inherent ambiguity of contrastive self-supervision presents a challenge. Relying solely on augmentation chains and self-supervised positive sampling strategies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Julien Guinot , Elio Quinton , György Fazekas

In this work, we detail our submission to the 2024 edition of the MSP-Podcast Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Challenge. This challenge is divided into two distinct tasks: Categorical Emotion Recognition and Emotional Attribute Prediction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jarod Duret , Mickael Rouvier , Yannick Estève

MER2025 is the third year of our MER series of challenges, aiming to bring together researchers in the affective computing community to explore emerging trends and future directions in the field. Previously, MER2023 focused on multi-label…

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has seen significant progress with deep learning, yet remains challenging for Low-Resource Languages (LRLs) due to the scarcity of annotated data. In this work, we explore unsupervised learning to improve…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ziwei Gong , Pengyuan Shi , Kaan Donbekci , Lin Ai , Run Chen , David Sasu , Zehui Wu , Julia Hirschberg

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to identify human emotions by combining data from various modalities such as language, audio, and vision. Despite the recent advances of MER approaches, the limitations in obtaining extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yehun Song , Sunyoung Cho

Cross-lingual Speech Emotion Recognition (CLSER) aims to identify emotional states in unseen languages. However, existing methods heavily rely on the semantic synchrony of complete labels and static feature stability, hindering low-resource…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ya Zhao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

This paper presents our winning approach for the MER-NOISE and MER-OV tracks of the MER2024 Challenge on multimodal emotion recognition. Our system leverages the advanced emotional understanding capabilities of Emotion-LLaMA to generate…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Zebang Cheng , Shuyuan Tu , Dawei Huang , Minghan Li , Xiaojiang Peng , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a challenging task due to limited data and blurred boundaries of certain emotions. In this paper, we present a comprehensive approach to improve the SER performance throughout the model lifecycle,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Xuechen Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

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 representation learning is a challenging task in which previous work mostly focus on either uni-modality pre-training or cross-modality fusion. In fact, we regard modeling multimodal representation as building a skyscraper, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ronghao Lin , Haifeng Hu

Performance in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) on a single language has increased greatly in the last few years thanks to the use of deep learning techniques. However, cross-lingual SER remains a challenge in real-world applications due to…

This study investigates the integration of trustworthy prior reasoning knowledge from MLLMs into multimodal emotion recognition. We employ Gemini to generate fine-grained, modality-separable reasoning traces, which are injected as priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhepeng Wang , Yingjian Zhu , Guanghao Dong , Hongzhu Yi , Feng Chen , Xinming Wang , Jun Xie

Deep learning has demonstrated significant improvements in medical image segmentation using a sufficiently large amount of training data with manual labels. Acquiring well-representative labels requires expert knowledge and exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jinxi Xiang , Zhuowei Li , Wenji Wang , Qing Xia , Shaoting Zhang

Representation Learning is a significant and challenging task in multimodal learning. Effective modality representations should contain two parts of characteristics: the consistency and the difference. Due to the unified multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Wenmeng Yu , Hua Xu , Ziqi Yuan , Jiele Wu