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While increasing research focuses on the emotional well-being of agile team members, a significant gap remains in emotion monitoring studies for Scrum Masters and meeting organizers, whose impact on team dynamics is crucial. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingni Huang , Peter Bloodsworth

The field of emotion recognition of conversation (ERC) has been focusing on separating sentence feature encoding and context modeling, lacking exploration in generative paradigms based on unified designs. In this study, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shanglin Lei , Guanting Dong , Xiaoping Wang , Keheng Wang , Runqi Qiao , Sirui Wang

Speech emotions play a crucial role in human-computer interaction, shaping engagement and context-aware communication. Despite recent advances in spoken dialogue systems, a holistic system for evaluating emotional reasoning is still…

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) focuses on identifying emotion shifts within interactions, representing a significant step toward advancing machine intelligence. However, ERC data remains scarce, and existing datasets face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Burak Can Kaplan , Hugo Cesar De Castro Carneiro , Stefan Wermter

In this paper, we propose MMER, a novel Multimodal Multi-task learning approach for Speech Emotion Recognition. MMER leverages a novel multimodal network based on early-fusion and cross-modal self-attention between text and acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , S Ramaneswaran , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Dinesh Manocha

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is vital to the advancements of conversational AI and its applications. Therefore, the development of an automated ERC model using the concepts of machine learning (ML) would be beneficial.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Amitabha Dey , Shan Suthaharan

Automatic emotion recognition is one of the central concerns of the Human-Computer Interaction field as it can bridge the gap between humans and machines. Current works train deep learning models on low-level data representations to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Mariana Rodrigues Makiuchi , Kuniaki Uto , Koichi Shinoda

Emotion recognition is a critical task in human-computer interaction, enabling more intuitive and responsive systems. This study presents a multimodal emotion recognition system that combines low-level information from audio and text,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Shamin Bin Habib Avro , Taieba Taher , Nursadul Mamun

Advancements in spoken language processing have driven the development of spoken language models (SLMs), designed to achieve universal audio understanding by jointly learning text and audio representations for a wide range of tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Pedro Corrêa , João Lima , Victor Moreno , Lucas Ueda , Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) aims to identify and understand the emotions expressed by speakers during utterance interaction from multiple modalities (e.g., text, audio, images, etc.). Existing studies have shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tao Meng , Weilun Tang , Yuntao Shou , Yilong Tan , Jun Zhou , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

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

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

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emotion annotations, which often fail to adequately represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yoshiki Tanaka , Ryuichi Uehara , Koji Inoue , Michimasa Inaba

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of analyzing and identifying human emotions from sensing data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because visual channel conveys rich emotional cues. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kejun Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Chang Tang , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multi- and cross-modal integration capabilities. However, their potential for fine-grained emotion understanding remains systematically underexplored.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jing Han , Zhiqiang Gao , Shihao Gao , Jialing Liu , Hongyu Chen , Zixing Zhang , Björn W. Schuller

The integration of information across multiple modalities and across time is a promising way to enhance the emotion recognition performance of affective systems. Much previous work has focused on instantaneous emotion recognition. The 2018…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Didan Deng , Yuqian Zhou , Jimin Pi , Bertram E. Shi

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC), the task of recognizing the emotion of each utterance in a conversation, is crucial for building empathetic machines. Existing studies focus mainly on capturing context- and speaker-sensitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Hui Ma , Jian Wang , Hongfei Lin , Bo Zhang , Yijia Zhang , Bo Xu

Speech Large Language Models (SLLMs) enable high-level emotion reasoning but often produce ungrounded, text-biased judgments without verifiable acoustic evidence. In contrast, self-supervised speech encoders such as WavLM provide strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Esther Sun , Bo-Hao Su , Abinay Reddy Naini , Shinji Watanabe , Carlos Busso

Affective computing is a field of study that focuses on developing systems and technologies that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), in particular, has got a lot of attention from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Varun Sharma

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of identifying human emotions from given data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because facial expressions contain rich emotional cues. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Kejun Liu , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen , Shiguang Shan