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Emotion recognition and generation have emerged as crucial topics in Artificial Intelligence research, playing a significant role in enhancing human-computer interaction within healthcare, customer service, and other fields. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Rebecca Mobbs , Dimitrios Makris , Vasileios Argyriou

Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in mental health, and difficulties in regulating emotions can contribute to psychological disorders. While reappraisal and suppression are well-studied strategies, the combined contributions of gray…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Alessandro Grecucci , Parisa Ahmadi Ghomroudi , Carmen Morawetz , Valerie Lesk , Irene Messina

Affective Image Manipulation (AIM) seeks to modify user-provided images to evoke specific emotional responses. This task is inherently complex due to its twofold objective: significantly evoking the intended emotion, while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jingyuan Yang , Jiawei Feng , Weibin Luo , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

In this work, we explore the emotional reactions that real-world images tend to induce by using natural language as the medium to express the rationale behind an affective response to a given visual stimulus. To embark on this journey, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Panos Achlioptas , Maks Ovsjanikov , Leonidas Guibas , Sergey Tulyakov

The most prominent tasks in emotion analysis are to assign emotions to texts and to understand how emotions manifest in language. An observation for NLP is that emotions can be communicated implicitly by referring to events, appealing to an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Enrica Troiano , Laura Oberländer , Roman Klinger

Recent research shows that emotions can enhance users' cognition and influence information communication. While research on visual emotion analysis is extensive, limited work has been done on helping users generate emotionally rich image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shengqi Dang , Yi He , Long Ling , Ziqing Qian , Nanxuan Zhao , Nan Cao

The human brain constructs emotional percepts not by processing facial expressions in isolation, but through a dynamic, hierarchical integration of sensory input with semantic and contextual knowledge. However, existing vision-based dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Huanzhen Wang , Ziheng Zhou , Zeng Tao , Aoxing Li , Yingkai Zhao , Yuxuan Lin , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the emotion manipulation capabilities of diffusion models with "in-the-wild" images, a rather unexplored application area relative to the vast and rapidly growing literature for image-to-image translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Ioannis Pikoulis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Petros Maragos

Social reward as a form of community recognition provides a strong source of motivation for users of online platforms to engage and contribute with content. The recent progress of text-conditioned image synthesis has ushered in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Arman Isajanyan , Artur Shatveryan , David Kocharyan , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

The rapid advancement of generative image models has transformed digital media to the point where AI generated images can no longer be reliably distinguished from authentic photographs by human observers or many conventional detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohd Ruhul Ameen , Akif Islam

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

This article presents a multimodal emotion recognition module integrated into a proactive Socially Interactive Agent (SIA) powered by generative artificial intelligence. The system evaluates real-time affective states through two distinct…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Adnana Dragut , Raquel Lacuesta , F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

In this paper, we make the first attempt to align diffusion models for image inpainting with human aesthetic standards via a reinforcement learning framework, significantly improving the quality and visual appeal of inpainted images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kendong Liu , Zhiyu Zhu , Chuanhao Li , Hui Liu , Huanqiang Zeng , Junhui Hou

The primary tasks of a cognitive system is to survive and to maximize a life-long utility function, like the number of offsprings. A direct computational maximization of life-long utility is however not possible in complex environments,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2010-05-25 Claudius Gros

Emotional talking-head generation has emerged as a pivotal research area at the intersection of computer vision and multimodal artificial intelligence, with its core value lying in enhancing human-computer interaction through immersive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Hanlei Shi , Leyuan Qu , Yu Liu , Di Gao , Yuhua Zheng , Taihao Li

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integrated into everyday life, enabling them to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta

This paper introduces an audio-visual speech enhancement system that leverages score-based generative models, also known as diffusion models, conditioned on visual information. In particular, we exploit audio-visual embeddings obtained from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Julius Richter , Simone Frintrop , Timo Gerkmann

Image generation has recently seen tremendous advances, with diffusion models allowing to synthesize convincing images for a large variety of text prompts. In this article, we propose DiffEdit, a method to take advantage of text-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Guillaume Couairon , Jakob Verbeek , Holger Schwenk , Matthieu Cord

Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activities provides a promising opportunity to advance our understanding of the brain's visual system and its connection with computer vision models. Although deep generative models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingyuan Sun , Mingxiao Li , Marie-Francine Moens

An image conveys meaning through both its visual content and emotional tone, jointly shaping human perception. We introduce Controllable Emotional Image Content Generation (C-EICG), which aims to generate images that remain faithful to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jingyuan Yang , Weibin Luo , Hui Huang