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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 in Conversations (MERC) enhances emotional understanding through the fusion of multimodal signals. However, unpredictable modality absence in real-world scenarios significantly degrades the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xihang Qiu , Jiarong Cheng , Yuhao Fang , Wanpeng Zhang , Yao Lu , Ye Zhang , Chun Li

Emotion recognition is involved in several real-world applications. With an increase in available modalities, automatic understanding of emotions is being performed more accurately. The success in Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Riccardo Franceschini , Enrico Fini , Cigdem Beyan , Alessandro Conti , Federica Arrigoni , Elisa Ricci

Human state recognition is a critical topic with pervasive and important applications in human-machine systems. Multi-modal fusion, the combination of metrics from multiple data sources, has been shown as a sound method for improving the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Ruiqi Wang , Wonse Jo , Dezhong Zhao , Weizheng Wang , Baijian Yang , Guohua Chen , Byung-Cheol Min

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment from language, acoustic, and visual data in videos. However, imbalanced unimodal performance often leads to suboptimal fused representations. Existing approaches typically adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dingkang Yang , Mingcheng Li , Xuecheng Wu , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Keliang Liu , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is hard because discriminative evidence is sparse, localized, and often asynchronous across modalities. We center ERC on emotion hotspots and present a unified model that detects per-utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yu Liu , Hanlei Shi , Haoxun Li , Yuqing Sun , Yuxuan Ding , Linlin Gong , Leyuan Qu , Taihao Li

Human Activity Recognition is an important task in many human-computer collaborative scenarios, whilst having various practical applications. Although uni-modal approaches have been extensively studied, they suffer from data quality and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jingcheng Li , Lina Yao , Binghao Li , Claude Sammut

Automatic emotion recognition is one of the central concerns of the Human-Computer Interaction field as it can bridge the gap between humans and machines. Current works train deep learning models on low-level data representations to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Mariana Rodrigues Makiuchi , Kuniaki Uto , Koichi Shinoda

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

Multi-modal emotion recognition is challenging due to the difficulty of extracting features that capture subtle emotional differences. Understanding multi-modal interactions and connections is key to building effective bimodal speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Lin Wang , Joshua D. Reiss

Speech emotion recognition is a challenge and an important step towards more natural human-computer interaction (HCI). The popular approach is multimodal emotion recognition based on model-level fusion, which means that the multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Fan Qian , Jiqing Han

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) is critical for human-computer interaction but faces challenges when the modalities are incomplete or missing. Existing methods often assume pre-defined missing modalities or fixed missing rates, limiting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Liling Li , Guoyang Xu , Xiongri Shen , Zhifei Xu , Yanbo Zhang , Zhiguo Zhang , Zhenxi Song

Multimodal emotion recognition from speech is an important area in affective computing. Fusing multiple data modalities and learning representations with limited amounts of labeled data is a challenging task. In this paper, we explore the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Shamane Siriwardhana , Andrew Reis , Rivindu Weerasekera , Suranga Nanayakkara

With the increasing popularity of video sharing websites such as YouTube and Facebook, multimodal sentiment analysis has received increasing attention from the scientific community. Contrary to previous works in multimodal sentiment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Minghai Chen , Sen Wang , Paul Pu Liang , Tadas Baltrušaitis , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal emotion analysis performed better in emotion recognition depending on more comprehensive emotional clues and multimodal emotion dataset. In this paper, we developed a large multimodal emotion dataset, named "HED" dataset, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhongyu Fang , Aoyun He , Qihui Yu , Baopeng Gao , Weiping Ding , Tong Zhang , Lei Ma

Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) aims to recognize and interpret human emotions by integrating information from diverse modalities such as text, video, and audio. Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Miaosen Luo , Jiesen Long , Zequn Li , Yunying Yang , Yuncheng Jiang , Sijie Mai

Continuous dimensional speech emotion recognition captures affective variation along valence, arousal, and dominance, providing finer-grained representations than categorical approaches. Yet most multimodal methods rely solely on global…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haoxun Li , Yuqing Sun , Hanlei Shi , Yu Liu , Leyuan Qu , Taihao Li

Multimodal fusion is considered a key step in multimodal tasks such as sentiment analysis, emotion detection, question answering, and others. Most of the recent work on multimodal fusion does not guarantee the fidelity of the multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria , Gangeshwar Krishnamurthy , Niyati Chhaya , Rada Mihalcea , Alexander Gelbukh

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) stands as a critical research frontier, seeking to comprehensively unravel human emotions by amalgamating text, audio, and visual data. Yet, discerning subtle emotional nuances within audio and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sheng Wu , Xiaobao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Dongxiao He , Jianwu Dang

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa