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In recent years, Affective Computing and its applications have become a fast-growing research topic. Furthermore, the rise of Deep Learning has introduced significant improvements in the emotion recognition system compared to classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Joaquim Comas , Decky Aspandi , Xavier Binefa

The context-aware emotional reasoning ability of AI systems, especially in conversations, is of vital importance in applications such as online opinion mining from social media and empathetic dialogue systems. Due to the implicit nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Kailai Yang , Tianlin Zhang , Shaoxiong Ji , Sophia Ananiadou

We propose a graph-based mechanism to extract rich-emotion bearing patterns, which fosters a deeper analysis of online emotional expressions, from a corpus. The patterns are then enriched with word embeddings and evaluated through several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Elvis Saravia , Hsien-Chi Toby Liu , Yi-Shin Chen

Multimodal emotion recognition is crucial for future human-computer interaction. However, accurate emotion recognition still faces significant challenges due to differences between different modalities and the difficulty of characterizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Haoyang Zhang , Zhou Yang , Ke Sun , Yucai Pang , Guoliang Xu

The integration of information across multiple modalities and across time is a promising way to enhance the emotion recognition performance of affective systems. Much previous work has focused on instantaneous emotion recognition. The 2018…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Didan Deng , Yuqian Zhou , Jimin Pi , Bertram E. Shi

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) has garnered substantial research attention recently. Existing MERC methods face several challenges: (1) they fail to fully harness direct inter-modal cues, possibly leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Zhigang Zeng

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) refers to identifying and classifying human emotional states by combining data from multiple different modalities (e.g., audio, images, text, video, etc.). Most existing multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Compared to other modalities, electroencephalogram (EEG) based emotion recognition can intuitively respond to emotional patterns in the human brain and, therefore, has become one of the most focused tasks in affective computing. The nature…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Chenyu Liu , Xinliang Zhou , Yihao Wu , Yi Ding , Liming Zhai , Kun Wang , Ziyu Jia , Yang Liu

A graph neural network (GNN) for image understanding based on multiple cues is proposed in this paper. Compared to traditional feature and decision fusion approaches that neglect the fact that features can interact and exchange information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Xin Guo , Luisa F. Polania , Bin Zhu , Charles Boncelet , Kenneth E. Barner

Understanding individual, group and event level emotions along with contextual information is crucial for analyzing a multi-person social situation. To achieve this, we frame emotion comprehension as the task of predicting fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anubhav Kataria , Surbhi Madan , Shreya Ghosh , Tom Gedeon , Abhinav Dhall

Routine clinical visits of a patient produce not only image data, but also non-image data containing clinical information regarding the patient, i.e., medical data is multi-modal in nature. Such heterogeneous modalities offer different and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Sein Kim , Namkyeong Lee , Junseok Lee , Dongmin Hyun , Chanyoung Park

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

Heterogeneous graphs provide a compact, efficient, and scalable way to model data involving multiple disparate modalities. This makes modeling audiovisual data using heterogeneous graphs an attractive option. However, graph structure does…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Amir Shirian , Mona Ahmadian , Krishna Somandepalli , Tanaya Guha

Millions of images on the web enable us to explore images from social events such as a family party, thus it is of interest to understand and model the affect exhibited by a group of people in images. But analysis of the affect expressed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Xiaohua Huang , Abhinav Dhall , Xin Liu , Guoying Zhao , Jingang Shi , Roland Goecke , Matti Pietikainen

Human affect recognition is a well-established research area with numerous applications, e.g., in psychological care, but existing methods assume that all emotions-of-interest are given a priori as annotated training examples. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Kunyu Peng , Alina Roitberg , David Schneider , Marios Koulakis , Kailun Yang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Multimodal sentiment analysis has emerged as a critical tool for understanding human emotions across diverse communication channels. While existing methods have made significant strides, they often struggle to effectively differentiate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jiahao Qin , Feng Liu , Lu Zong

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations aims to infer utterance-level emotions by jointly modeling textual, acoustic, and visual cues within context. Despite recent progress, key challenges remain, including redundant cross-modal…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Chengling Guo , Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Yun Tan , Keqin Li

This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to emotion detection using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs). Unlike traditional unimodal techniques that rely on a single data type, we explore a multimodal framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Anushka Srivastava

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is a crucial component in affective dialogue systems, which helps the system understand users' emotions and generate empathetic responses. However, most works focus on modeling speaker and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jingwen Hu , Yuchen Liu , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin