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Affective computing plays a key role in human-computer interactions, entertainment, teaching, safe driving, and multimedia integration. Major breakthroughs have been made recently in the areas of affective computing (i.e., emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yan Wang , Wei Song , Wei Tao , Antonio Liotta , Dawei Yang , Xinlei Li , Shuyong Gao , Yixuan Sun , Weifeng Ge , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

The project leverages advanced machine and deep learning techniques to address the challenge of emotion recognition by focusing on non-facial cues, specifically hands, body gestures, and gestures. Traditional emotion recognition systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Haoyang Liu

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

As the name suggests, affective computing aims to recognize human emotions, sentiments, and feelings. There is a wide range of fields that study affective computing, including languages, sociology, psychology, computer science, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sitara Afzal , Haseeb Ali Khan , Imran Ullah Khan , Md. Jalil Piran , Jong Weon Lee

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , S Ramaneswaran , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Dinesh Manocha

The development of affective multimodal language models (MLMs) has long been constrained by a gap between low-level perception and high-level interaction, leading to fragmented affective capabilities and limited generalization. To bridge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiahao Huang , Fengyan Lin , Xuechao Yang , Chen Feng , Kexin Zhu , Xu Yang , Zhide Chen

Predicting and reasoning how a video would make a human feel is crucial for developing socially intelligent systems. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive video understanding capabilities, they tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yuxiang Guo , Faizan Siddiqui , Yang Zhao , Rama Chellappa , Shao-Yuan Lo

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important part of human-computer interaction, receiving extensive attention from both industry and academia. However, the current research field of SER has long suffered from the following problems: 1)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ziyang Ma , Mingjie Chen , Hezhao Zhang , Zhisheng Zheng , Wenxi Chen , Xiquan Li , Jiaxin Ye , Xie Chen , Thomas Hain

Automatic group emotion recognition plays an important role in understanding complex human-human interaction. This paper introduces, Emolysis, a Python-based, standalone open-source group emotion analysis toolkit for use in different social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shreya Ghosh , Zhixi Cai , Parul Gupta , Garima Sharma , Abhinav Dhall , Munawar Hayat , Tom Gedeon

This study introduces EM2LDL, a novel multilingual speech corpus designed to advance mixed emotion recognition through label distribution learning. Addressing the limitations of predominantly monolingual and single-label emotion corpora…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xingfeng Li , Xiaohan Shi , Junjie Li , Yongwei Li , Masashi Unoki , Tomoki Toda , Masato Akagi

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is a crucial task for understanding human emotions and enabling natural human-computer interaction. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown great potential in this field, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinran Li , Yu Liu , Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu

"How does the person in the bounding box feel?" Achieving human-level recognition of the apparent emotion of a person in real world situations remains an unsolved task in computer vision. Facial expressions are not enough: body pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yasaman Etesam , Özge Nilay Yalçın , Chuxuan Zhang , Angelica Lim

The remarkable progress of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has garnered unparalleled attention, due to their superior performance in visual contexts. However, their capabilities in visual math problem-solving remain insufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Renrui Zhang , Dongzhi Jiang , Yichi Zhang , Haokun Lin , Ziyu Guo , Pengshuo Qiu , Aojun Zhou , Pan Lu , Kai-Wei Chang , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Emotion recognition is a core research area at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human communication analysis. It is a significant technical challenge since humans display their emotions through complex idiosyncratic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have revolutionized numerous research fields, including computer vision and affective computing. As a pivotal challenge in this interdisciplinary domain, facial expression recognition (FER) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Fan Zhang , Haoxuan Li , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Zheng Lian , Hao Wu , Zhihong Zhu , Yuan Gao , Qiankun Li , Yefeng Zheng , Zhouchen Lin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Humans no doubt use language to communicate about their emotional experiences, but does language in turn help humans understand emotions, or is language just a vehicle of communication? This study used a form of artificial intelligence (AI)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ming Li , Yusheng Su , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Jiali Cheng , Xin Hu , Xinmiao Zhang , Huadong Wang , Yujia Qin , Xiaozhi Wang , Kristen A. Lindquist , Zhiyuan Liu , Dan Zhang

Emotion estimation in images is a challenging task, typically using computer vision methods to directly estimate people's emotions using face, body pose and contextual cues. In this paper, we explore whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Vera Yang , Archita Srivastava , Yasaman Etesam , Chuxuan Zhang , Angelica Lim

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Datasets used for emotion recognition tasks typically contain overt cues that can be used in predicting the emotions expressed in a text. However, one challenge is that texts sometimes contain covert contextual cues that are rich in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Gerard Christopher Yeo , Kokil Jaidka

The ability to represent emotion plays a significant role in human cognition and social interaction, yet the high-dimensional geometry of this affective space and its neural underpinnings remain debated. A key challenge, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Changde Du , Yizhuo Lu , Zhongyu Huang , Yi Sun , Zisen Zhou , Shaozheng Qin , Huiguang He