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Multimodal music emotion recognition (MMER) is an emerging discipline in music information retrieval that has experienced a surge in interest in recent years. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rashini Liyanarachchi , Aditya Joshi , Erik Meijering

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) in practical scenarios is significantly challenged by the presence of missing or incomplete data across different modalities. To overcome these challenges, researchers have aimed to simulate incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Qi Fan , Haolin Zuo , Rui Liu , Zheng Lian , Guanglai Gao

Despite significant progress over the past few years, ambiguity is still a key challenge in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). It can lead to noisy and inconsistent annotation, which hinders the performance of deep learning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Quang Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

The main task of Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) is to identify the emotions in modalities, e.g., text, audio, image and video, which is a significant development direction for realizing machine intelligence. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER), leveraging speech and text, has emerged as a pivotal domain within human-computer interaction, demanding sophisticated methods for effective multimodal integration. The challenge of aligning features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Xuechen Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Haoqin Sun , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Qin

Conventional Multi-modal multi-label emotion recognition (MMER) assumes complete access to visual, textual, and acoustic modalities. However, real-world multi-party settings often violate this assumption, as non-speakers frequently lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xudong Yang , Yizhang Zhu , Hanfeng Liu , Zeyi Wen , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to identify emotional states by integrating and analyzing information from multiple modalities. However, inherent modality heterogeneity and inconsistencies in emotional cues remain key challenges…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Peiyuan Jiang , Yao Liu , Qiao Liu , Zongshun Zhang , Jiaye Yang , Lu Liu , Daibing Yao

Recent advancements in Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) face challenges in addressing both modality missing and Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) data simultaneously. Existing methods often rely on specific models or introduce excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Guowei Zhong , Ruohong Huan , Mingzhen Wu , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) is an active research field that aims to accurately recognize human emotions by fusing multiple perceptual modalities. However, inherent heterogeneity across modalities introduces distribution gaps and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Haoqin Sun , Shiwan Zhao , Xuechen Wang , Wenjia Zeng , Yong Chen , Yong Qin

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) systems typically outperform unimodal systems by leveraging the inter- and intra-modal relationships between, e.g., visual, textual, physiological, and auditory modalities. This paper proposes an MMER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Paul Waligora , Haseeb Aslam , Osama Zeeshan , Soufiane Belharbi , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Marco Pedersoli , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

Multi-modal affective computing aims to automatically recognize and interpret human attitudes from diverse data sources such as images and text, thereby enhancing human-computer interaction and emotion understanding. Existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuanhe Tian , Pengsen Cheng , Guoqing Jin , Lei Zhang , Yan Song

Descriptive Multimodal Emotion Recognition (DMER) has garnered increasing research attention. Unlike traditional discriminative paradigms that rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, DMER aims to describe human emotional state using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zheng Lian , Licai Sun , Lan Chen , Haoyu Chen , Zebang Cheng , Fan Zhang , Ziyu Jia , Ziyang Ma , Fei Ma , Xiaojiang Peng , Jianhua Tao

Blended emotion recognition is challenging because emotions are often expressed as mixtures of subtle and overlapping multimodal cues rather than a single dominant signal. We propose a rank-aware multi-encoder framework that selectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junghyun Lee , Hyunseo Kim , Hanna Jang , Junhyug Noh

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 emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for human-computer interaction, yet real-world challenges like dynamic modality incompleteness and asynchrony severely limit its robustness. Existing methods often assume consistently complete…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yitong Zhu , Lei Han , Guanxuan Jiang , PengYuan Zhou , Yuyang Wang

Multi-modal multi-label emotion recognition (MMER) aims to identify relevant emotions from multiple modalities. The challenge of MMER is how to effectively capture discriminative features for multiple labels from heterogeneous data. Recent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Cheng Peng , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

To address the limitation in multimodal emotion recognition (MER) performance arising from inter-modal information fusion, we propose a novel MER framework based on multitask learning where fusion occurs after alignment, called Foal-Net.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qifei Li , Yingming Gao , Yuhua Wen , Cong Wang , Ya Li

It has been a hot research topic to enable machines to understand human emotions in multimodal contexts under dialogue scenarios, which is tasked with multimodal emotion analysis in conversation (MM-ERC). MM-ERC has received consistent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Bobo Li , Hao Fei , Lizi Liao , Yu Zhao , Chong Teng , Tat-Seng Chua , Donghong Ji , Fei Li

There are threefold challenges in emotion recognition. First, it is difficult to recognize human's emotional states only considering a single modality. Second, it is expensive to manually annotate the emotional data. Third, emotional data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-08 Changde Du , Changying Du , Hao Wang , Jinpeng Li , Wei-Long Zheng , Bao-Liang Lu , Huiguang He

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the uncertainty of human emotional expression and the heterogeneity gap between different modalities. Audio and text modalities are particularly important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Joshua Reiss