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Multimodal sentiment analysis is a key technology in the fields of human-computer interaction and affective computing. Accurately recognizing human emotional states is crucial for facilitating smooth communication between humans and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wangyuan Zhu , Jun Yu

Memes convey meaning through the interaction of visual and textual signals, often combining humor, irony, and offense in subtle ways. Detecting harmful or sensitive content in memes requires accurate modeling of these multimodal cues.…

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Multimodal emotion understanding requires effective integration of text, audio, and visual modalities for both discrete emotion recognition and continuous sentiment analysis. We present EGMF, a unified framework combining expert-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu , Xinran Li , Yu Liu

Hateful memes are widespread in social media and convey negative information. The main challenge of hateful memes detection is that the expressive meaning can not be well recognized by a single modality. In order to further integrate modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Weibo Zhang , Guihua Liu , Zhuohua Li , Fuqing Zhu

In recent years , there has been an upsurge in a new form of entertainment medium called memes. These memes although seemingly innocuous have transcended onto the boundary of online harassment against women and created an unwanted bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Harshvardhan Srivastava

Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

Compared with unimodal data, multimodal data can provide more features to help the model analyze the sentiment of data. Previous research works rarely consider token-level feature fusion, and few works explore learning the common features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Zhen Li , Bing Xu , Conghui Zhu , Tiejun Zhao

Although pre-trained visual models with text have demonstrated strong capabilities in visual feature extraction, sticker emotion understanding remains challenging due to its reliance on multi-view information, such as background knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jian Chen , Yuxuan Hu , Haifeng Lu , Wei Wang , Min Yang , Chengming Li , Xiping Hu

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 intent recognition (MMIR) suffers from weak semantic grounding and poor robustness under noisy or rare-class conditions. We propose MVCL-DAF++, which extends MVCL-DAF with two key modules: (1) Prototype-aware contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haofeng Huang , Yifei Han , Long Zhang , Bin Li , Yangfan He

Analyzing individual emotions during group conversation is crucial in developing intelligent agents capable of natural human-machine interaction. While reliable emotion recognition techniques depend on different modalities (text, audio,…

Developing effective multimodal data fusion strategies has become increasingly essential for improving the predictive power of statistical machine learning methods across a wide range of applications, from autonomous driving to medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ziyi Liang , Annie Qu , Babak Shahbaba

Cross-modal retrieval (CMR) is a fundamental task in multimedia research, focused on retrieving semantically relevant targets across different modalities. While traditional CMR methods match text and image via embedding-based similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Haoxuan Li , Yi Bin , Yunshan Ma , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Multi-modal image fusion (MMIF) integrates valuable information from different modality images into a fused one. However, the fusion of multiple visible images with different focal regions and infrared images is a unprecedented challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Tao Ye , Xiaoqi Cheng , Wuyang Liu , Haishu Tan

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

Multimodal embeddings serve as a bridge for aligning vision and language, with the two primary implementations -- CLIP-based and MLLM-based embedding models -- both limited to capturing only global semantic information. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Lexiang Hu , Youze Xue , Dian Li , Gang Liu , Zhouchen Lin

Moderation of social media content is currently a highly manual task, yet there is too much content posted daily to do so effectively. With the advent of a number of multimodal models, there is the potential to reduce the amount of manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Bryan Zhao , Andrew Zhang , Blake Watson , Gillian Kearney , Isaac Dale

Human Multimodal Language Understanding (MLU) aims to infer human intentions by integrating related cues from heterogeneous modalities. Existing works predominantly follow a ``learning to attend" paradigm, which maximizes mutual information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Menghua Jiang , Yuncheng Jiang , Haifeng Hu , Sijie Mai

Conditional inference on joint textual and visual clues is a multi-modal reasoning task that textual clues provide prior permutation or external knowledge, which are complementary with visual content and pivotal to deducing the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yunxin Li , Baotian Hu , Xinyu Chen , Yuxin Ding , Lin Ma , Min Zhang

Women are twice as likely as men to face online harassment due to their gender. Despite recent advances in multimodal content moderation, most approaches still overlook the social dynamics behind this phenomenon, where perpetrators…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Paolo Italiani , David Gimeno-Gomez , Luca Ragazzi , Gianluca Moro , Paolo Rosso