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Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) identifies emotional states across text, audio and video, which is essential for intelligent dialogue systems and opinion analysis. Existing methods emphasize heterogeneous modal fusion…

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Multimodal sentiment analysis remains a challenging task due to the inherent heterogeneity across modalities. Such heterogeneity often manifests as asynchronous signals, imbalanced information between modalities, and interference from…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yadong Liu , Shangfei Wang

Multimodal emotion understanding requires effective integration of text, audio, and visual modalities for both discrete emotion recognition and continuous sentiment analysis. We present EGMF, a unified framework combining expert-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu , Xinran Li , Yu Liu

The performance of local feature descriptors degrades in the presence of large rotation variations. To address this issue, we present an efficient approach to learning rotation invariant descriptors. Specifically, we propose Rotated Kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ranran Huang , Jiancheng Cai , Chao Li , Zhuoyuan Wu , Xinmin Liu , Zhenhua Chai

Facial micro-expressions are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal hidden emotions. Most Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) methods that rely on optical flow typically focus on the onset-to-apex phase, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) extracts emotions from multimodal data, including visual, speech, and text inputs, playing a key role in human-computer interaction. Attention-based fusion methods dominate MER research, achieving strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiajun He , Jinyi Mi , Tomoki Toda

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to automatically identify and understand human emotional states by integrating information from various modalities. However, the scarcity of annotated multimodal data significantly hinders the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhixian Zhao , Haifeng Chen , Xi Li , Dongmei Jiang , Lei Xie

Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by predefined label spaces, thereby enabling fine-grained emotion understanding. Unlike traditional discriminative methods, OV-MER…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zheng Lian , Fan Zhang , Lan Chen , Yazhou Zhang , Rui Liu , Jinyang Wu , Haoyu Chen , Xiaobai Li , Xiaojiang Peng , Bin He , Jianhua Tao

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is crucial in developing sympathetic human-machine interaction. In conversational videos, emotion can be present in multiple modalities, i.e., audio, video, and transcript. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Vishal Chudasama , Purbayan Kar , Ashish Gudmalwar , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Naoyuki Onoe

Compound Expression Recognition (CER), a subfield of affective computing, aims to detect complex emotional states formed by combinations of basic emotions. In this work, we present a novel zero-shot multimodal approach for CER that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Elena Ryumina , Maxim Markitantov , Alexandr Axyonov , Dmitry Ryumin , Mikhail Dolgushin , Alexey Karpov

Micro-expression recognition (MER), a critical subfield of affective computing, presents greater challenges than macro-expression recognition due to its brief duration and low intensity. While incorporating prior knowledge has been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Chuang Ma , Shaokai Zhao , Dongdong Zhou , Yu Pei , Zhiguo Luo , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multi- and cross-modal integration capabilities. However, their potential for fine-grained emotion understanding remains systematically underexplored.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jing Han , Zhiqiang Gao , Shihao Gao , Jialing Liu , Hongyu Chen , Zixing Zhang , Björn W. Schuller

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predominantly rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, which fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Haoyu Chen , Lan Chen , Hao Gu , Zhuofan Wen , Shun Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Bin Liu , Rui Liu , Shan Liang , Ya Li , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

Due to the complex nature of human emotions and the diversity of emotion representation methods in humans, emotion recognition is a challenging field. In this research, three input modalities, namely text, audio (speech), and video, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Minoo Shayaninasab , Bagher Babaali

Recent advancements in Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) face challenges in addressing both modality missing and Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) data simultaneously. Existing methods often rely on specific models or introduce excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Guowei Zhong , Ruohong Huan , Mingzhen Wu , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) plays a critical role in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Although existing methods achieve comparable performance, they inevitably suffer from performance degradation under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Feng-Qi Cui , Anyang Tong , Jinyang Huang , Jie Zhang , Dan Guo , Zhi Liu , Meng Wang

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays an important role in driving the development of human-machine interaction. Emotions can exist in multiple modalities, and multimodal ERC mainly faces two problems: (1) the noise problem in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shihao Zou , Xianying Huang , Xudong Shen

Blended emotion recognition is challenging because emotions are often expressed as mixtures of subtle and overlapping multimodal cues rather than a single dominant signal. We propose a rank-aware multi-encoder framework that selectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junghyun Lee , Hyunseo Kim , Hanna Jang , Junhyug Noh

Automatic emotion recognition has recently gained significant attention due to the growing popularity of deep learning algorithms. One of the primary challenges in emotion recognition is effectively utilizing the various cues (modalities)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mijanur Palash , Bharat Bhargava

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) is an important research area that aims to understand and recognize human sentiment through multiple modalities. The complementary information provided by multimodal fusion promotes better sentiment…