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This paper introduces a multi-label visual emotion analysis benchmark dataset for comprehensively evaluating the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to predict the emotions evoked by images. Recent user studies report an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tianwei Chen , Takuya Furusawa , Yuki Hirakawa , Ryotaro Shimizu , Mo Fan , Takashi Wada

The first Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MER 2023) was successfully held at ACM Multimedia. The challenge focuses on system robustness and consists of three distinct tracks: (1) MER-MULTI, where participants are required to…

In this work, we present a novel method for music emotion recognition that leverages Large Language Model (LLM) embeddings for label alignment across multiple datasets and zero-shot prediction on novel categories. First, we compute LLM…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Renhang Liu , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

This paper explores the development of a multimodal sentiment analysis model that integrates text, audio, and visual data to enhance sentiment classification. The goal is to improve emotion detection by capturing the complex interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Hui Lee , Singh Suniljit , Yong Siang Ong

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires representations that effectively integrate signals from multiple modalities. These signals include modality-specific cues, information shared across modalities, and interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anh-Tuan Mai , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Duc-Trong Le

Affective judgment in real interaction is rarely a purely local prediction problem. Emotional meaning often depends on prior trajectory, accumulated context, and multimodal evidence that may be weak, noisy, or incomplete at the current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Deliang Wen , Ke Sun , Yu Wang

In this work, we present a lightweight and privacy-preserving Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) framework designed for deployment on edge devices. To demonstrate framework's versatility, our implementation uses three modalities - speech,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rémi Grzeczkowicz , Eric Soriano , Ali Janati , Miyu Zhang , Gerard Comas-Quiles , Victor Carballo Araruna , Aneesh Jonelagadda

Lack of large, well-annotated emotional speech corpora continues to limit the performance and robustness of speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly as models grow more complex and the demand for multimodal systems increases. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chung-Soo Ahn , Rajib Rana , Sunil Sivadas , Carlos Busso , Jagath C. Rajapakse

Speech emotion recognition (SER) models typically rely on costly human-labeled data for training, making scaling methods to large speech datasets and nuanced emotion taxonomies difficult. We present LanSER, a method that enables the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Taesik Gong , Josh Belanich , Krishna Somandepalli , Arsha Nagrani , Brian Eoff , Brendan Jou

Music emotion recognition is a key task in symbolic music understanding (SMER). Recent approaches have shown promising results by fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained models (e.g., MIDIBERT, a benchmark in symbolic music understanding) to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Haiying Xia , Zhongyi Huang , Yumei Tan , Shuxiang Song

Despite the recent progress in speech emotion recognition (SER), state-of-the-art systems are unable to achieve improved performance in cross-language settings. In this paper, we propose a Multimodal Dual Attention Transformer (MDAT) model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Syed Aun Muhammad Zaidi , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

Since Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) can be applied to public opinion monitoring, intelligent dialogue robots, and other fields, it has received extensive research attention in recent years. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tao Meng , Fuchen Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Hongen Shao , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an objective tool for emotion recognition and shows promising performance. However, the label scarcity problem is a main challenge in this field, which limits the wide application of EEG-based emotion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Rushuang Zhou , Weishan Ye , Zhiguo Zhang , Yanyang Luo , Li Zhang , Linling Li , Gan Huang , Yining Dong , Yuan-Ting Zhang , Zhen Liang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems rely on speech input and emotional labels annotated by humans. However, various emotion databases collect perceptional evaluations in different ways. For instance, the IEMOCAP dataset uses video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Huang-Cheng Chou , Haibin Wu , Hung-yi Lee , Chi-Chun Lee

Emotion recognition plays a pivotal role in intelligent human-machine interaction systems. Multimodal approaches benefit from the fusion of diverse modalities, thereby improving the recognition accuracy. However, the lack of high-quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Jinming Chen , Jingyi Fang , Yuanzhong Zheng , Yaoxuan Wang , Haojun Fei

This paper aims to test whether a multi-modal approach for music emotion recognition (MER) performs better than a uni-modal one on high-level song features and lyrics. We use 11 song features retrieved from the Spotify API, combined lyrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Tibor Krols , Yana Nikolova , Ninell Oldenburg

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feng Li , Jiusong Luo , Wanjun Xia

Recent advancements in EEG-based emotion recognition have shown promising outcomes using both deep learning and classical machine learning approaches; however, most existing studies focus narrowly on binary valence prediction or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Abdul Rehman , Ilona Heldal , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin

Despite remarkable advances in emotion recognition, they are severely restrained from either the essentially limited property of the employed single modality, or the synchronous presence of all involved multiple modalities. Motivated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Jing Han , Zixing Zhang , Zhao Ren , Björn Schuller

Multimodal emotion recognition aims to integrate text, audio, and video sources to understand human affective states. Although multimodal large language models excel at multimodal reasoning, they typically treat emotion categories as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zeheng Wang , Bo Zhao , Yijie Zhu , Zhishu Liu , Hui Ma , Ruixin Zhang , Shouhong Ding , Qianyu Xie , Zitong Yu