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Emotion recognition in conversations is challenging due to the multi-modal nature of the emotion expression. We propose a hierarchical cross-attention model (HCAM) approach to multi-modal emotion recognition using a combination of recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Emotions are an inherent part of human interactions, and consequently, it is imperative to develop AI systems that understand and recognize human emotions. During a conversation involving various people, a person's emotions are influenced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Abhinav Joshi , Ashwani Bhat , Ayush Jain , Atin Vikram Singh , Ashutosh Modi

Emotion recognition in speech is a challenging multimodal task that requires understanding both verbal content and vocal nuances. This paper introduces a novel approach to emotion detection using Large Language Models (LLMs), which have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zehui Wu , Ziwei Gong , Lin Ai , Pengyuan Shi , Kaan Donbekci , Julia Hirschberg

Non-speech emotion recognition has a wide range of applications including healthcare, crime control and rescue, and entertainment, to name a few. Providing these applications using edge computing has great potential, however, recent studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ibrahim Malik , Siddique Latif , Sanaullah Manzoor , Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Raja Jurdak

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a typical dialogue that can effectively assist the user in mitigating emotional pressures. However, owing to the inherent subjectivity involved in analyzing emotions, current non-artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Huaiwen Zhang , Yu Chen , Ming Wang , Shi Feng

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is critical for interpreting real-world interactions. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) have shown promise in MER, their internal decision-making mechanisms under modality conflict and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yueru Sun , Yimeng Zhang , Haoyu Gu , Nuo Chen , Dong She , Xianrong Yao , Yang Gao , Zhanpeng Jin

This paper proposes a system capable of recognizing a speaker's utterance-level emotion through multimodal cues in a video. The system seamlessly integrates multiple AI models to first extract and pre-process multimodal information from the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Sun-Kyung Lee , Jong-Hwan Kim

Due to the complex nature of human emotions and the diversity of emotion representation methods in humans, emotion recognition is a challenging field. In this research, three input modalities, namely text, audio (speech), and video, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Minoo Shayaninasab , Bagher Babaali

Affect recognition, encompassing emotions, moods, and feelings, plays a pivotal role in human communication. In the realm of conversational artificial intelligence, the ability to discern and respond to human affective cues is a critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shutong Feng , Guangzhi Sun , Nurul Lubis , Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Milica Gašić

Multimodal emotion recognition is a task of great concern. However, traditional data sets are based on fixed labels, resulting in models that often focus on main emotions and ignore detailed emotional changes in complex scenes. This report…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mengying Ge , Dongkai Tang , Mingyang Li

The integration of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) into mental health care promises a new horizon for therapist-client interactions, aiming to closely emulate the depth and nuance of human conversations. Despite the potential,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuqi Chu , Lizi Liao , Zhiyuan Zhou , Chong-Wah Ngo , Richang Hong

Talking face generation has gained significant attention as a core application of generative models. To enhance the expressiveness and realism of synthesized videos, emotion editing in talking face video plays a crucial role. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chanhyuk Choi , Taesoo Kim , Donggyu Lee , Siyeol Jung , Taehwan Kim

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations remains a challenging task due to the complex interplay of textual, acoustic and visual signals. While recent models have improved performance via advanced fusion strategies, they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Guanyu Hu , Dimitrios Kollias , Xinyu Yang

Emotion Cause Extraction in Conversations (ECEC) aims to extract the utterances which contain the emotional cause in conversations. Most prior research focuses on modelling conversational contexts with sequential encoding, ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Dexin Kong , Nan Yu , Yun Yuan , Guohong Fu , Chen Gong

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by predefined label spaces, thereby enabling fine-grained emotion understanding. Unlike traditional discriminative methods, OV-MER…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zheng Lian , Fan Zhang , Lan Chen , Yazhou Zhang , Rui Liu , Jinyang Wu , Haoyu Chen , Xiaobai Li , Xiaojiang Peng , Bin He , Jianhua Tao

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) refers to identifying and classifying human emotional states by combining data from multiple different modalities (e.g., audio, images, text, video, etc.). Most existing multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is vital for obtaining emotional intelligence and understanding the contextual meaning of speech. Variations of consonant-vowel (CV) phonemic boundaries can enrich acoustic context with linguistic cues,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Anna Ollerenshaw , Md Asif Jalal , Rosanna Milner , Thomas Hain

The mainstream paradigm of speech emotion recognition (SER) is identifying the single emotion label of the entire utterance. This line of works neglect the emotion dynamics at fine temporal granularity and mostly fail to leverage linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Siyuan Shen , Yu Gao , Feng Liu , Hanyang Wang , Aimin Zhou

Multimodal Empathetic Response Generation (MERG) is crucial for building emotionally intelligent human-computer interactions. Although large language models (LLMs) have improved text-based ERG, challenges remain in handling multimodal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ronghao Lin , Shuai Shen , Weipeng Hu , Qiaolin He , Aolin Xiong , Li Huang , Haifeng Hu , Yap-peng Tan