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Emotion recognition in dynamic social contexts requires an understanding of the complex interaction between facial expressions and situational cues. This paper presents a salience-adjusted framework for context-aware emotion recognition…

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As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in our daily life, the ability to recognize and adapt to human emotions is essential for effective human-computer interaction. Facial expression recognition (FER) provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thibault Geoffroy , Myriam Maumy , Lionel Prevost

Classification of human emotions can play an essential role in the design and improvement of human-machine systems. While individual biological signals such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electrodermal Activity (EDA) have been widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Anubhav Bhatti , Behnam Behinaein , Dirk Rodenburg , Paul Hungler , Ali Etemad

This paper proposes a process for a classification model for the facial expressions. The proposed process would aid in specific categorisation of children's emotions from 2 emotions namely 'Happy' and 'Sad'. Since the existing emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Sanchayan Vivekananthan

Video-based emotion recognition is a challenging task because it requires to distinguish the small deformations of the human face that represent emotions, while being invariant to stronger visual differences due to different identities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Masih Aminbeidokhti , Marco Pedersoli , Patrick Cardinal , Eric Granger

In this paper we describe a solution to our entry for the emotion recognition challenge EmotiW 2017. We propose an ensemble of several models, which capture spatial and audio features from videos. Spatial features are captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Boris Knyazev , Roman Shvetsov , Natalia Efremova , Artem Kuharenko

Emotion recognition in videos is a pivotal task in affective computing, where identifying subtle psychological states such as Ambivalence and Hesitancy holds significant value for behavioral intervention and digital health. Ambivalence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Liang Tang , Hongda Li , Jiayu Zhang , Long Chen , Shuxian Li , Siqi Pei , Tiaonan Duan , Yuhao Cheng

The intensity estimation of facial action units (AUs) is challenging due to subtle changes in the person's facial appearance. Previous approaches mainly rely on probabilistic models or predefined rules for modeling co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yingruo Fan , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li

A key challenge for Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is to distinguish semantically similar emotions. Some works utilise Supervised Contrastive Learning (SCL) which uses categorical emotion labels as supervision signals and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kailai Yang , Tianlin Zhang , Hassan Alhuzali , Sophia Ananiadou

Active recognition, which allows intelligent agents to explore observations for better recognition performance, serves as a prerequisite for various embodied AI tasks, such as grasping, navigation and room arrangements. Given the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Lei Fan , Jianxiong Zhou , Xiaoying Xing , Ying Wu

Emotion is intrinsic to humans and consequently emotion understanding is a key part of human-like artificial intelligence (AI). Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is becoming increasingly popular as a new research frontier in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Soujanya Poria , Navonil Majumder , Rada Mihalcea , Eduard Hovy

The 10th Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) Workshop and Competition, held at CVPR 2026, continues to advance research on modelling, analysis, understanding of human affect and behavior in real-world, unconstrained…

Emotion recognition plays a vital role in enhancing human-computer interaction. In this study, we tackle the MER-SEMI challenge of the MER2025 competition by proposing a novel multimodal emotion recognition framework. To address the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Juewen Hu , Yexin Li , Jiulin Li , Shuo Chen , Pring Wong

Emotion recognition in user-generated videos plays an important role in human-centered computing. Existing methods mainly employ traditional two-stage shallow pipeline, i.e. extracting visual and/or audio features and training classifiers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Sicheng Zhao , Yunsheng Ma , Yang Gu , Jufeng Yang , Tengfei Xing , Pengfei Xu , Runbo Hu , Hua Chai , Kurt Keutzer

Over the past few years many research efforts have been devoted to the field of affect analysis. Various approaches have been proposed for: i) discrete emotion recognition in terms of the primary facial expressions; ii) emotion analysis in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We consider the task of dimensional emotion recognition on video data using deep learning. While several previous methods have shown the benefits of training temporal neural network models such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Pooya Khorrami , Tom Le Paine , Kevin Brady , Charlie Dagli , Thomas S. Huang

Automatic emotion recognition for real-life appli-cations is a challenging task. Human emotion expressions aresubtle, and can be conveyed by a combination of several emo-tions. In most existing emotion recognition studies, each…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jay Desai , Houwei Cao , Ravi Shah

Face based affective computing consists in detecting emotions from face images. It is useful to unlock better automatic comprehension of human behaviours and could pave the way toward improved human-machines interactions. However it comes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Gauthier Tallec , Jules Bonnard , Arnaud Dapogny , Kévin Bailly

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to infer human affect by jointly modeling audio and visual cues; however, existing approaches often struggle with temporal misalignment, weakly discriminative feature representations, and suboptimal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Joe Dhanith P R , Shravan Venkatraman , Vigya Sharma , Santhosh Malarvannan

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) represents the latest incarnation of pre-trained vision-language models. Although CLIP has recently shown its superior power on a wide range of downstream vision-language tasks like Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sinuo Deng , Lifang Wu , Ge Shi , Lehao Xing , Meng Jian , Ye Xiang