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In recent years, deep learning has achieved innovative advancements in various fields, including the analysis of human emotions and behaviors. Initiatives such as the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Seongjae Min , Junseok Yang , Sangjun Lim , Junyong Lee , Sangwon Lee , Sejoon Lim

Multimodal emotion recognition has recently gained much attention since it can leverage diverse and complementary relationships over multiple modalities (e.g., audio, visual, biosignals, etc.), and can provide some robustness to noisy…

Decades of research indicate that emotion recognition is more effective when drawing information from multiple modalities. But what if some modalities are sometimes missing? To address this problem, we propose a novel Transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L. Crowley

In the domain of human-computer interaction, accurately recognizing and interpreting human emotions is crucial yet challenging due to the complexity and subtlety of emotional expressions. This study explores the potential for detecting a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiehui Jia , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang

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,…

Multimodal emotion recognition often suffers from performance degradation in valence-arousal estimation due to noise and misalignment between audio and visual modalities. To address this challenge, we introduce TAGF, a Time-aware Gated…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yubeen Lee , Sangeun Lee , Chaewon Park , Junyeop Cha , Eunil Park

Emotions recognition is the task of recognizing people's emotions. Usually it is achieved by analyzing expression of peoples faces. There are two ways for representing emotions: The categorical approach and the dimensional approach by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Alvertos Benroumpi , Dimitrios Kollias

Multimodal sentiment analysis has a wide range of applications due to its information complementarity in multimodal interactions. Previous works focus more on investigating efficient joint representations, but they rarely consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Rongfei Chen , Wenju Zhou , Yang Li , Huiyu Zhou

Human emotion recognition plays an important role in human-computer interaction. In this paper, we present our approach to the Valence-Arousal (VA) Estimation Challenge, Expression (Expr) Classification Challenge, and Action Unit (AU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Weiwei Zhou , Jiada Lu , Zhaolong Xiong , Weifeng Wang

This paper presents a novel deep neural network (DNN) for multimodal fusion of audio, video and text modalities for emotion recognition. The proposed DNN architecture has independent and shared layers which aim to learn the representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Juan D. S. Ortega , Mohammed Senoussaoui , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro L. Koerich

Human emotion recognition plays a crucial role in facilitating seamless interactions between humans and computers. In this paper, we present our innovative methodology for tackling the Valence-Arousal (VA) Estimation Challenge, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Weiwei Zhou , Chenkun Ling , Zefeng Cai

Event classification is inherently sequential and multimodal. Therefore, deep neural models need to dynamically focus on the most relevant time window and/or modality of a video. In this study, we propose the Multi-level Attention Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mathilde Brousmiche , Jean Rouat , Stéphane Dupont

In this work, we describe our method for tackling the valence-arousal estimation challenge from ABAW FG-2020 Competition. The competition organizers provide an in-the-wild Aff-Wild2 dataset for participants to analyze affective behavior in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 I-Hsuan Li

Dimensional representations of speech emotions such as the arousal-valence (AV) representation provide a continuous and fine-grained description and control than their categorical counterparts. They have wide applications in tasks such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Enting Zhou , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

In this paper we propose a fusion approach to continuous emotion recognition that combines visual and auditory modalities in their representation spaces to predict the arousal and valence levels. The proposed approach employs a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Juan D. S. Ortega , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro L. Koerich

Many attempts have been made at estimating discrete emotions (calmness, anxiety, boredom, surprise, anger) and continuous emotional measures commonly used in psychology, namely `valence' (The pleasantness of the emotion being displayed) and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Karthik Subramanian , Saurav Singh , Justin Namba , Jamison Heard , Christopher Kanan , Ferat Sahin

This paper studies the emotion recognition from musical tracks in the 2-dimensional valence-arousal (V-A) emotional space. We propose a method based on convolutional (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN), having significantly fewer…

Most current audio-visual emotion recognition models lack the flexibility needed for deployment in practical applications. We envision a multimodal system that works even when only one modality is available and can be implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Lucas Goncalves , Seong-Gyun Leem , Wei-Cheng Lin , Berrak Sisman , Carlos Busso

Emotion recognition and sentiment analysis are pivotal tasks in speech and language processing, particularly in real-world scenarios involving multi-party, conversational data. This paper presents a multimodal approach to tackle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Aref Farhadipour , Hossein Ranjbar , Masoumeh Chapariniya , Teodora Vukovic , Sarah Ebling , Volker Dellwo

Traditional pet emotion recognition from vocalizations, based on discrete classification, struggles with ambiguity and capturing intensity variations. We propose a continuous Valence-Arousal (VA) model that represents emotions in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junyao Huang , Rumin Situ