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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

Evaluating Large Language Models' (LLMs) anthropomorphic capabilities has become increasingly important in contemporary discourse. Utilizing the emotion appraisal theory from psychology, we propose to evaluate the empathy ability of LLMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jen-tse Huang , Man Ho Lam , Eric John Li , Shujie Ren , Wenxuan Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Zhaopeng Tu , Michael R. Lyu

In this paper, we propose a solution for the semi-supervised learning track (MER-SEMI) in MER2024. First, in order to enhance the performance of the feature extractor on sentiment classification tasks,we fine-tuned video and text feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Pujin Shi , Fei Gao

Although speech emotion recognition (SER) has advanced significantly with deep learning, annotation remains a major hurdle. Human annotation is not only costly but also subject to inconsistencies annotators often have different preferences…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xin Jing , Jiadong Wang , Iosif Tsangko , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn W. Schuller

The recent advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is transforming human-computer interaction (HCI) from surface-level exchanges into more nuanced and emotionally intelligent communication. To realize this shift, emotion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hyeongseop Rha , Jeong Hun Yeo , Yeonju Kim , Yong Man Ro

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) aims to enhance emotion understanding by integrating complementary cues from text, audio, and visual modalities. Existing MERC approaches predominantly focus on cross-modal shared…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xinyi Che , Wenbo Wang , Yuanbo Hou , Mingjie Xie , Qijun Zhao , Jian Guan

This study investigates the key characteristics and suitability of widely used Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets for training deep learning models. In the field of affective computing, FER is essential for interpreting human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Célia Martinie , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

We introduce EQ-Bench, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate aspects of emotional intelligence in Large Language Models (LLMs). We assess the ability of LLMs to understand complex emotions and social interactions by asking them to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Samuel J. Paech

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

This paper presents our approach for SemEval 2025 Task 11 Track A, focusing on multilabel emotion classification across 28 languages. We explore two main strategies: fully fine-tuning transformer models and classifier-only training,…

Emotion understanding is a critical yet challenging task. Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced their capabilities in this area. However, MLLMs often suffer from hallucinations, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Bohao Xing , Xin Liu , Guoying Zhao , Chengyu Liu , Xiaolan Fu , Heikki Kälviäinen

Multimodal sentiment analysis, a pivotal task in affective computing, seeks to understand human emotions by integrating cues from language, audio, and visual signals. While many recent approaches leverage complex attention mechanisms and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Nischal Mandal , Yang Li

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (mERC) is an active research topic in natural language processing (NLP), which aims to predict human's emotional states in communications of multiple modalities, e,g., natural language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jinglin Wang , Fang Ma , Yazhou Zhang , Dawei Song

Automatic emotion recognition is an active research topic with wide range of applications. Due to the high manual annotation cost and inevitable label ambiguity, the development of emotion recognition dataset is limited in both scale and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jingjun Liang , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin

The furnishing of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has led to the emergence of numerous benchmark studies, particularly those evaluating their perception and understanding capabilities. Among these, understanding image-evoked…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lancheng Gao , Ziheng Jia , Yunhao Zeng , Wei Sun , Yiming Zhang , Wei Zhou , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Mathematical Expression Recognition (MER) has made significant progress in recognizing simple expressions, but the robust recognition of complex mathematical expressions with many tokens and multiple lines remains a formidable challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weikang Bai , Yongkun Du , Yuchen Su , Yazhen Xie , Zhineng Chen

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

Classification of human emotions remains an important and challenging task for many computer vision algorithms, especially in the era of humanoid robots which coexist with humans in their everyday life. Currently proposed methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Ivona Tautkute , Tomasz Trzcinski , Adam Bielski

As emotions play a central role in human communication, automatic emotion recognition has attracted increasing attention in the last two decades. While multimodal systems enjoy high performances on lab-controlled data, they are still far…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Denis Dresvyanskiy , Maxim Markitantov , Jiawei Yu , Peitong Li , Heysem Kaya , Alexey Karpov