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Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) increasingly depends on fine grained, evidence grounded annotations, yet inspection and label construction are hard to scale when cues are dynamic and misaligned across modalities. We present an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zheyuan Kuang , Weiwei Jiang , Nicholas Koemel , Matthew Ahmadi , Emmanuel Stamatakis , Benjamin Tag , Anusha Withana , Zhanna Sarsenbayeva

Affective computing is a field of study that focuses on developing systems and technologies that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), in particular, has got a lot of attention from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Varun Sharma

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to navigate the nuances of human emotion. While research confirms that LLMs can simulate emotional intelligence, their internal emotional mechanisms remain largely unexplored. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingxiang Zhang , Lujia Zhong

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to emotional support conversation (ESC). However, complex multi-turn support remains challenging.This is because existing alignment schemes rely on sparse outcome-level signals, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chenghui Zou , Ning Wang , Tiesunlong Shen , Luwei Xiao , Chuan Ma , Xiangpeng Li , Rui Mao , Erik Cambria

Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition (EMER) is an emerging task that aims to achieve reliable and accurate emotion recognition. However, due to the high annotation cost, the existing dataset (denoted as EMER-Fine) is small, making it…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Jiangyan Yi , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

Expression of emotions is a crucial part of daily human communication. Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is an emerging field of study, where the primary task is to identify the emotion behind each utterance in a conversation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Sreyan Ghosh , S Ramaneswaran , Utkarsh Tyagi , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Samden Lepcha , S Sakshi , Dinesh Manocha

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

Although Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have exhibited outstanding performance in auditory understanding, their performance in affective computing scenarios, particularly in emotion recognition, reasoning, and subtle sentiment…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pengcheng Li , Botao Zhao , Zuheng Kang , Junqing Peng , Xiaoyang Qu , Yayun He , Jianzong Wang

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for human-computer interaction, yet real-world challenges like dynamic modality incompleteness and asynchrony severely limit its robustness. Existing methods often assume consistently complete…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yitong Zhu , Lei Han , Guanxuan Jiang , PengYuan Zhou , Yuyang Wang

Despite their strong performance in multimodal emotion reasoning, existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often overlook the scenarios involving emotion conflicts, where emotional cues from different modalities are inconsistent.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhiyuan Han , Beier Zhu , Yanlong Xu , Peipei Song , Xun Yang

Humans infer emotions by integrating observed multimodal cues with expectations about how affective states may unfold. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs), however, often treat emotion recognition as static fusion over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Bo Zhao , Fanghua Ye , Yixin Ji , Sicheng Zhao , Xiaojiang Peng , Zitong YU

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) seeks to integrate various modalities to predict emotional states accurately. However, most current research focuses solely on the fusion of audio and text features, overlooking the valuable information…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuechun Shao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa

In this paper, we propose MMER, a novel Multimodal Multi-task learning approach for Speech Emotion Recognition. MMER leverages a novel multimodal network based on early-fusion and cross-modal self-attention between text and acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , S Ramaneswaran , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Dinesh Manocha

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC), the task of discerning human emotions for each utterance within a conversation, has garnered significant attention in human-computer interaction systems. Previous ERC studies focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Lili Shan , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Li

With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, group-level emotion recognition (GER) has emerged as an important area in analyzing human behavior. Early GER methods are primarily relied on handcrafted features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Xiaohua Huang , Jinke Xu , Wenming Zheng , Qirong Mao , Abhinav Dhall

Research increasingly leverages audio-visual materials to analyze emotions in political communication. Multimodal large language models (mLLMs) promise to enable such analyses through in-context learning. However, we lack systematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hauke Licht

Emotion recognition is a core research area at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human communication analysis. It is a significant technical challenge since humans display their emotions through complex idiosyncratic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

Emotions conveyed through voice and face shape engagement and context in human AI interaction. Despite rapid progress in omni modal large language models, the holistic evaluation of emotional reasoning with audiovisual cues remains limited.…

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a wide variety of real-world applications in various domains. However, creating a high-performing application with high accuracy remains challenging, particularly for subjective tasks like emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mengqi Wang , Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan