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Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has emerged as a critical component of the next generation human-machine interfacing technologies. In this work, we propose a new dual-level model that predicts emotions based on both MFCC features and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Jianyou Wang , Michael Xue , Ryan Culhane , Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

The continuous evolution of pre-trained speech models has greatly advanced Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, current research typically relies on utterance-level emotion labels, inadequately capturing the complexity of emotions…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Heng Lu , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

Emotions play a crucial role in human behavior and decision-making, making emotion recognition a key area of interest in human-computer interaction (HCI). This study addresses the challenges of emotion recognition by integrating facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zaitian Wang , Jian He , Yu Liang , Xiyuan Hu , Tianhao Peng , Kaixin Wang , Jiakai Wang , Chenlong Zhang , Weili Zhang , Shuang Niu , Xiaoyang Xie

Classification of human emotions can play an essential role in the design and improvement of human-machine systems. While individual biological signals such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electrodermal Activity (EDA) have been widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Anubhav Bhatti , Behnam Behinaein , Dirk Rodenburg , Paul Hungler , Ali Etemad

Music emotion recognition (MER) is usually regarded as a multi-label tagging task, and each segment of music can inspire specific emotion tags. Most researchers extract acoustic features from music and explore the relations between these…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Xin Liu , Qingcai Chen , Xiangping Wu , Yan Liu , Yang Liu

Categorical speech emotion recognition is typically performed as a sequence-to-label problem, i.e., to determine the discrete emotion label of the input utterance as a whole. One of the main challenges in practice is that most of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Shuiyang Mao , P. C. Ching , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Tan Lee

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

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) seeks to identify the speakers' emotions expressed in each utterance, offering significant potential across diverse fields. The challenge of MERC lies in balancing speaker modeling and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zijian Yi , Ziming Zhao , Zhishu Shen , Tiehua Zhang

Affective Computing (AC) is essential for advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with emotion recognition serving as a key component. However, human emotions are inherently dynamic, influenced not only by an individual's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yupei Li , Qiyang Sun , Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy , Emran Alturki , Björn W. Schuller

This paper discusses the benefits of incorporating multimodal data for improving latent emotion recognition accuracy, focusing on micro-expression (ME) and physiological signals (PS). The proposed approach presents a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Liangfei Zhang , Yifei Qian , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Anthony Zhu

In the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) learning scenario, the semantic information of instructional videos has a crucial impact on learners' emotional state. Learners mainly acquire knowledge by watching instructional videos, and the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yuan Zhang , Xiaomei Tao , Hanxu Ai , Tao Chen , Yanling Gan

Emotion estimation in music listening is confronting challenges to capture the emotion variation of listeners. Recent years have witnessed attempts to exploit multimodality fusing information from musical contents and physiological signals…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Nattapong Thammasan , Ken-ichi Fukui , Masayuki Numao

Emotion decoding plays an important role in affective human-computer interaction. However, previous studies ignored the dynamic real-world scenario, where human experience a blend of multiple emotions which are incrementally integrated into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Kaicheng Fu , Changde Du , Xiaoyu Chen , Jie Peng , Huiguang He

This paper addresses data quality issues in multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) through systematic quality control and multi-stage transfer learning. We implement a quality control pipeline for MELD and IEMOCAP datasets…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Zanxu Wang , Homayoon Beigi

Multimodal emotion analysis is shifting from static classification to generative reasoning. Beyond simple label prediction, robust affective reasoning must synthesize fine-grained signals such as facial micro-expressions and prosodic which…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhixian Zhao , Wenjie Tian , Lei Xie

Word embeddings such as ELMo have recently been shown to model word semantics with greater efficacy through contextualized learning on large-scale language corpora, resulting in significant improvement in state of the art across many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Shao-Yen Tseng , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is challenging due to the multimodal nature of the emotion expression. In this paper, we propose to pretrain a text-based recognition model from unsupervised speech transcripts with LLM guidance.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in a single language has achieved remarkable results through deep learning approaches in the last decade. However, cross-lingual SER remains a challenge in real-world applications due to a great difference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Jin Li , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

Sentiment classification typically relies on a large amount of labeled data. In practice, the availability of labels is highly imbalanced among different languages, e.g., more English texts are labeled than texts in any other languages,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Zhenpeng Chen , Sheng Shen , Ziniu Hu , Xuan Lu , Qiaozhu Mei , Xuanzhe Liu

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