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Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved unprecedented success in several objective multimodal reasoning tasks. However, to further enhance their capabilities of empathetic and effective communication with humans, improving how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sree Bhattacharyya , James Z. Wang

Analysts often make visual causal inferences about possible data-generating models. However, visual analytics (VA) software tends to leave these models implicit in the mind of the analyst, which casts doubt on the statistical validity of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Alex Kale , Yifan Wu , Jessica Hullman

Internet memes are a central element of online culture, blending images and text. While substantial research has focused on either the visual or textual components of memes, little attention has been given to their interplay. This gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aidos Konyspay , Pakizar Shamoi , Malika Ziyada , Zhusup Smambayev

Visual emotion recognition (VER) is a longstanding field that has garnered increasing attention with the advancement of deep neural networks. Although recent studies have achieved notable improvements by leveraging the knowledge embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Daiqing Wu , Dongbao Yang , Yu Zhou , Can Ma

Visual engagement in social media platforms comprises interactions with photo posts including comments, shares, and likes. In this paper, we leverage such visual engagement clues as supervisory signals for representation learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Menglin Jia , Zuxuan Wu , Austin Reiter , Claire Cardie , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

We propose VADEC, a multi-task framework that exploits the correlation between the categorical and dimensional models of emotion representation for better subjectivity analysis. Focusing primarily on the effective detection of emotions from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Rajdeep Mukherjee , Atharva Naik , Sriyash Poddar , Soham Dasgupta , Niloy Ganguly

Emotion recognition or emotion prediction is a higher approach or a special case of sentiment analysis. In this task, the result is not produced in terms of either polarity: positive or negative or in the form of rating (from 1 to 5) but of…

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations remains a challenging task due to the complex interplay of textual, acoustic and visual signals. While recent models have improved performance via advanced fusion strategies, they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Guanyu Hu , Dimitrios Kollias , Xinyu Yang

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Existing visual reasoning datasets such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), often suffer from biases conditioned on the question, image or answer distributions. The recently proposed CLEVR dataset addresses these limitations and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Ning Xie , Farley Lai , Derek Doran , Asim Kadav

Emotion understanding is an essential but highly challenging component of artificial general intelligence. The absence of extensively annotated datasets has significantly impeded advancements in this field. We present EmotionCLIP, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sitao Zhang , Yimu Pan , James Z. Wang

We introduce the SEER (Span-based Emotion Evidence Retrieval) Benchmark to test Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to identify the specific spans of text that express emotion. Unlike traditional emotion recognition tasks that assign a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Aneesha Sampath , Oya Aran , Emily Mower Provost

Voice interfaces integral to the human-computer interaction systems can benefit from speech emotion recognition (SER) to customize responses based on user emotions. Since humans convey emotions through multi-modal audio-visual cues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Varsha Pendyala , Pedro Morgado , William Sethares

Visual Sentiment Analysis aims to understand how images affect people, in terms of evoked emotions. Although this field is rather new, a broad range of techniques have been developed for various data sources and problems, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Alessandro Ortis , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Sebastiano Battiato

Emotion recognition is the task of classifying perceived emotions in people. Previous works have utilized various nonverbal cues to extract features from images and correlate them to emotions. Of these cues, situational context is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Willams de Lima Costa , Estefania Talavera Martinez , Lucas Silva Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

Optimal computations under uncertainty require an adequate probabilistic representation about beliefs. Deep generative models, and specifically Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), have the potential to meet this demand by building latent…

Although the terms mood and emotion are closely related and often used interchangeably, they are distinguished based on their duration, intensity and attribution. To date, hardly any computational models have (a) examined mood recognition,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Soujanya Narayana , Ramanathan Subramanian , Ibrahim Radwan , Roland Goecke

The stance detection task aims to categorise the stance regarding specified targets. Current methods face challenges in effectively integrating sentiment information for stance detection. Moreover, the role of highly granular sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Beiyu Xu , Zhiwei Liu , Sophia Ananiadou

When assigning quantitative labels to a dataset, different methodologies may rely on different scales. In particular, when assigning polarities to words in a sentiment lexicon, annotators may use binary, categorical, or continuous labels.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Alexander Hoyle , Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin , Hanna Wallach , Ryan Cotterell , Isabelle Augenstein