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Speech Large Language Models (LLMs) show great promise for speech emotion recognition (SER) via generative interfaces. However, shifting from closed-set classification to open text generation introduces zero-shot stochasticity, making…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hezhao Zhang , Huang-Cheng Chou , Shrikanth Narayanan , Thomas Hain

The importance of automated Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) grows the more common human-machine interactions become, which will only continue to increase dramatically with time. A common method to describe human sentiment or feeling is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Carl Norman

This paper presents our winning submission to Subtask 2 of SemEval 2024 Task 3 on multimodal emotion cause analysis in conversations. We propose a novel Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Multimodal Emotion Cause Extraction (MER-MCE)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zebang Cheng , Fuqiang Niu , Yuxiang Lin , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Bowen Zhang , Xiaojiang Peng

The ability to represent emotion plays a significant role in human cognition and social interaction, yet the high-dimensional geometry of this affective space and its neural underpinnings remain debated. A key challenge, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Changde Du , Yizhuo Lu , Zhongyu Huang , Yi Sun , Zisen Zhou , Shaozheng Qin , Huiguang He

Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anders Rolighed Larsen , Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Paula Petcu , Line Clemmensen

Micro-expressions (MEs), brief and low-intensity facial movements revealing concealed emotions, are crucial for affective computing. Despite notable progress in ME recognition, existing methods are largely confined to discrete emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sirui Zhao , Zhengye Zhang , Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Shukang Yin , Chaoyou Fu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities in perception, reasoning, and generation, and are increasingly used in applications such as social robots and human-computer interaction, where understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 He Hu , Tengjin Weng , Zebang Cheng , Yu Wang , Jiachen Luo , Björn Schuller , Zheng Lian , Laizhong Cui

Large language models (LLMs) and their variants have shown extraordinary efficacy across numerous downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which has presented a new vision for the development of NLP. Despite their remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Yazhou Zhang , Mengyao Wang , Youxi Wu , Prayag Tiwari , Qiuchi Li , Benyou Wang , Jing Qin

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) plays a crucial role in visual affective computing, aiming to infer a person's emotional state based on facial data. Scientifically, facial expressions (FEs) result from the coordinated movement of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhuozhao Hu , Kaishen Yuan , Xin Liu , Zitong Yu , Yuan Zong , Jingang Shi , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Deep learning models for music have advanced drastically in recent years, but how good are machine learning models at capturing emotion, and what challenges are researchers facing? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jaeyong Kang , Dorien Herremans

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

Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Wen-Huang Cheng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davision

Music Emotion Recognition (MER) is a task deeply connected to human perception, relying heavily on subjective annotations collected from contributors. Prior studies tend to focus on specific musical styles rather than incorporating a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Joann Ching , Gerhard Widmer

Emotions are experienced and expressed differently across the world. In order to use Large Language Models (LMs) for multilingual tasks that require emotional sensitivity, LMs must reflect this cultural variation in emotion. In this study,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shreya Havaldar , Sunny Rai , Bhumika Singhal , Langchen Liu , Sharath Chandra Guntuku , Lyle Ungar

In recent years, Affective Computing and its applications have become a fast-growing research topic. Furthermore, the rise of Deep Learning has introduced significant improvements in the emotion recognition system compared to classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Joaquim Comas , Decky Aspandi , Xavier Binefa

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

The Music Emotion Recognition (MER) field has seen steady developments in recent years, with contributions from feature engineering, machine learning, and deep learning. The landscape has also shifted from audio-centric systems to bimodal…

Affective Computing (AC) is essential in bridging the gap between human emotional experiences and machine understanding. Traditionally, AC tasks in natural language processing (NLP) have been approached through pipeline architectures, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Wenna Lai , Haoran Xie , Guandong Xu , Qing Li , S. Joe Qin

Facial emotion recognition is a vast and complex problem space within the domain of computer vision and thus requires a universally accepted baseline method with which to evaluate proposed models. While test datasets have served this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Nyle Siddiqui , Rushit Dave , Tyler Bauer , Thomas Reither , Dylan Black , Mitchell Hanson

With strong expressive capabilities in Large Language Models(LLMs), generative models effectively capture sentiment structures and deep semantics, however, challenges remain in fine-grained sentiment classification across multi-lingual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jie Wang , Yichen Wang , Zhilin Zhang , Jianhao Zeng , Kaidi Wang , Zhiyang Chen