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Evaluating the emotional intelligence (EI) of audio language models (ALMs) is critical. However, existing benchmarks mostly rely on synthesized speech, are limited to single-turn interactions, and depend heavily on open-ended scoring. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Shuiyuan Wang , Zhixian Zhao , Hongfei Xue , Chengyou Wang , Shuai Wang , Hui Bu , Xin Xu , Lei Xie

In affective neuroscience and emotion-aware AI, understanding how complex auditory stimuli drive emotion arousal dynamics remains unresolved. This study introduces a computational framework to model the brain's encoding of naturalistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Guandong Pan , Yaqian Yang , Shi Chen , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Hongwei Zheng , Shaoting Tang

Dynamic emotion recognition in the wild remains challenging due to the transient nature of emotional expressions and temporal misalignment of multi-modal cues. Traditional approaches predict valence and arousal and often overlook the…

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Affective speech analysis is an ongoing topic of research. A relatively new problem in this field is the analysis of vocal bursts, which are nonverbal vocalisations such as laughs or sighs. Current state-of-the-art approaches to address…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Tobias Hallmen , Silvan Mertes , Dominik Schiller , Elisabeth André

Affective Behavior Analysis aims to develop emotionally intelligent technology that can recognize and respond to human emotions. To advance this field, the 7th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition holds the Multi-Task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Chen Liu , Wei Zhang , Feng Qiu , Lincheng Li , Xin Yu

We used two multimodal models for continuous valence-arousal recognition using visual, audio, and linguistic information. The first model is the same as we used in ABAW2 and ABAW3, which employs the leader-follower attention. The second…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Su Zhang , Ziyuan Zhao , Cuntai Guan

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…

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Video-based Emotional Reaction Intensity (ERI) estimation measures the intensity of subjects' reactions to stimuli along several emotional dimensions from videos of the subject as they view the stimuli. We propose a multi-modal architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yini Fang , Liang Wu , Frederic Jumelle , Bertram Shi

Audiovisual emotion recognition (AVER) aims to infer human emotions from nonverbal visual-audio (VA) cues, offering modality-complementary and language-agnostic advantages. However, AVER remains challenging due to the inherent ambiguity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hao Cheng , Zhiwei Zhao , Yichao He , Zhenzhen Hu , Jia Li , Meng Wang , Richang Hong

This paper illustrates our submission method to the fourth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) Competition. The method is used for the Multi-Task Learning Challenge. Instead of using only face information, we employ full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Irfan Haider , Minh-Trieu Tran , Soo-Hyung Kim , Hyung-Jeong Yang , Guee-Sang Lee

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

We address the Ambivalence/Hesitancy (A/H) Video Recognition Challenge at the 10th ABAW Competition (CVPR 2026). We propose a divergence-based multimodal fusion that explicitly measures cross-modal conflict between visual, audio, and…

The continuous improvement of human-computer interaction technology makes it possible to compute emotions. In this paper, we introduce our submission to the CVPR 2023 Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW). Sentiment…

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This paper presents our system development for SemEval-2024 Task 3: "The Competition of Multimodal Emotion Cause Analysis in Conversations". Effectively capturing emotions in human conversations requires integrating multiple modalities such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Arefa , Mohammed Abbas Ansari , Chandni Saxena , Tanvir Ahmad

Large pre-trained models are essential in paralinguistic systems, demonstrating effectiveness in tasks like emotion recognition and stuttering detection. In this paper, we employ large pre-trained models for the ACM Multimedia Computational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Dejan Porjazovski , Yaroslav Getman , Tamás Grósz , Mikko Kurimo

This article presents our results for the sixth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. To improve the trustworthiness of facial analysis, we study the possibility of using pre-trained deep models that extract reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Andrey V. Savchenko

In this paper, we present our solutions for emotion recognition in the sub-challenges of Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MER2024). To mitigate the modal competition issue between audio and text, we adopt an early fusion strategy…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mengying Ge , Mingyang Li , Dongkai Tang , Pengbo Li , Kuo Liu , Shuhao Deng , Songbai Pu , Long Liu , Yang Song , Tao Zhang

Ambivalence/hesitancy recognition in unconstrained videos is a challenging problem due to the subtle, multimodal, and context-dependent nature of this behavioral state. In this paper, a multimodal approach for video-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Elena Ryumina , Alexandr Axyonov , Dmitry Sysoev , Timur Abdulkadirov , Kirill Almetov , Yulia Morozova , Dmitry Ryumin

Automatic emotion recognition is a challenging task. In this paper, we present our effort for the audio-video based sub-challenge of the Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) 2018 challenge, which requires participants to assign a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zheng Lian , Ya Li , Jianhua Tao , Jian Huang

Affective behavior analysis plays an important role in human-computer interaction, customer marketing, health monitoring. ABAW Challenge and Aff-Wild2 dataset raise the new challenge for classifying basic emotions and regression…

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