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Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predominantly rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, which fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Haoyu Chen , Lan Chen , Hao Gu , Zhuofan Wen , Shun Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Bin Liu , Rui Liu , Shan Liang , Ya Li , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

The rapid evolution of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) toward multimodal, high-stakes enterprise applications has outpaced the development of domain specific evaluation benchmarks. Existing datasets often rely on general-domain corpora…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chandan Kumar Sahu , Premith Kumar Chilukuri , Matthew Hetrich

Emotion recognition based on Electroencephalography (EEG) has gained significant attention and diversified development in fields such as neural signal processing and affective computing. However, the unique brain anatomy of individuals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Yihang Dong , Xuhang Chen , Yanyan Shen , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Tao Qian , Shuqiang Wang

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating multimodal data (text, images, videos) into retrieval and generation processes, overcoming the limitations of text-only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lang Mei , Siyu Mo , Zhihan Yang , Chong Chen

Empathetic response generation, aiming to understand the user's situation and feelings and respond empathically, is crucial in building human-like dialogue systems. Traditional approaches typically employ maximum likelihood estimation as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hui Ma , Bo Zhang , Bo Xu , Jian Wang , Hongfei Lin , Xiao Sun

Dynamic facial expression recognition in the wild remains challenging due to data scarcity and long-tail distributions, which hinder models from effectively learning the temporal dynamics of scarce emotions. To address these limitations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Huanzhen Wang , Ziheng Zhou , Jiaqi Song , Li He , Yunshi Lan , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

In real-world scenarios, providing user queries with visually enhanced responses can considerably benefit understanding and memory, underscoring the great value of interleaved image-text generation. Despite recent progress, like the visual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Rongyang Zhang , Yuqing Huang , Chengqiang Lu , Qimeng Wang , Yan Gao , Yi Wu , Yao Hu , Yin Xu , Wei Wang , Hao Wang , Enhong Chen

Automatic emotion recognition (AER) based on enriched multimodal inputs, including text, speech, and visual clues, is crucial in the development of emotionally intelligent machines. Although complex modality relationships have been proven…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Shuyun Tang , Zhaojie Luo , Guoshun Nan , Yuichiro Yoshikawa , Ishiguro Hiroshi

EEG-based multimodal emotion recognition(EMER) has gained significant attention and witnessed notable advancements, the inherent complexity of human neural systems has motivated substantial efforts toward multimodal approaches. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Zejun Liu , Yunshan Chen , Chengxi Xie , Yugui Xie , Huan Liu

Multimodal emotion recognition is an important research topic in artificial intelligence, whose main goal is to integrate multimodal clues to identify human emotional states. Current works generally assume accurate labels for benchmark…

Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by label spaces, enabling fine-grained emotion understanding. Unlike traditional discriminative methods, OV-MER leverages generative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zheng Lian , Fan Zhang , Yazhou Zhang , Jianhua Tao , Rui Liu , Haoyu Chen , Xiaobai Li , Bin He

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to detect the emotional status of a given expression by combining the speech and text information. Intuitively, label information should be capable of helping the model locate the salient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Peiying Wang , Sunlu Zeng , Junqing Chen , Lu Fan , Meng Chen , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

The prevalent approach in speech emotion recognition (SER) involves integrating both audio and textual information to comprehensively identify the speaker's emotion, with the text generally obtained through automatic speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiajun He , Xiaohan Shi , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

Lack of large, well-annotated emotional speech corpora continues to limit the performance and robustness of speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly as models grow more complex and the demand for multimodal systems increases. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chung-Soo Ahn , Rajib Rana , Sunil Sivadas , Carlos Busso , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Emotions conveyed through voice and face shape engagement and context in human AI interaction. Despite rapid progress in omni modal large language models, the holistic evaluation of emotional reasoning with audiovisual cues remains limited.…

Memes represent a tightly coupled, multimodal form of social expression, in which visual context and overlaid text jointly convey nuanced affect and commentary. Inspired by cognitive reappraisal in psychology, we introduce Meme Reappraisal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiqi Nie , Fei Wang , Junjie Chen , Kun Li , Yudi Cai , Dan Guo , Chenglong Li , Meng Wang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feng Li , Jiusong Luo , Wanjun Xia

Responsing with image has been recognized as an important capability for an intelligent conversational agent. Yet existing works only focus on exploring the multimodal dialogue models which depend on retrieval-based methods, but neglecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Qingfeng Sun , Yujing Wang , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang , Huang Hu , Fei Xu , Jessica Zhang , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) presents unique challenges, requiring models to capture the temporal flow of multi-turn dialogues and to effectively integrate cues from multiple modalities. We propose Mixture of Speech-Text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soumya Dutta , Smruthi Balaji , Sriram Ganapathy

Emotion recognition has the potential to play a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling systems to accurately interpret and respond to human affect. Yet, capturing emotions in face-to-face contexts remains…