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Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anders Rolighed Larsen , Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Paula Petcu , Line Clemmensen

Emotion recognition is a topic of significant interest in assistive robotics due to the need to equip robots with the ability to comprehend human behavior, facilitating their effective interaction in our society. Consequently, efficient and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rutherford Agbeshi Patamia , Paulo E. Santos , Kingsley Nketia Acheampong , Favour Ekong , Kwabena Sarpong , She Kun

Large language models are routinely deployed on text that varies widely in emotional tone, yet their reasoning behavior is typically evaluated without accounting for emotion as a source of representational variation. Prior work has largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Benjamin Reichman , Adar Avsian , Samuel Webster , Larry Heck

Understanding emotions in natural language is inherently a multi-dimensional reasoning problem, where multiple affective signals interact through context, interpersonal relations, and situational cues. However, most existing emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hemanth Kotaprolu , Kishan Maharaj , Raey Zhao , Abhijit Mishra , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

This paper is the basis paper for the accepted IJCNN challenge One-Minute Gradual-Emotion Recognition (OMG-Emotion) by which we hope to foster long-emotion classification using neural models for the benefit of the IJCNN community. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Egor Lakomkin , Henrique Siqueira , Alexander Sutherland , Stefan Wermter

Current works in human emotion recognition follow the traditional closed learning approach governed by rigid rules without any consideration of novelty. Classification models are trained on some collected datasets and expected to have the…

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

In recent years, deep learning has achieved innovative advancements in various fields, including the analysis of human emotions and behaviors. Initiatives such as the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Seongjae Min , Junseok Yang , Sangjun Lim , Junyong Lee , Sangwon Lee , Sejoon Lim

A fundamental challenge in affective cognitive science is to develop models that accurately capture the relationship between external emotional stimuli and human internal experiences. While ANNs have demonstrated remarkable accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haotian Deng , Chi Zhang , Chen Wei , Quanying Liu

Humans have a selective memory, remembering relevant episodes and forgetting the less relevant information. Possessing awareness of event memorability for a user could help intelligent systems in more accurate user modelling, especially for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Maria Tsfasman , Ramin Ghorbani , Catholijn M. Jonker , Bernd Dudzik

In affective computing, datasets often contain multiple annotations from different annotators, which may lack full agreement. Typically, these annotations are merged into a single gold standard label, potentially losing valuable inter-rater…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ibrahim Shoer , Engin Erzin

Affect modeling is viewed, traditionally, as the process of mapping measurable affect manifestations from multiple modalities of user input to affect labels. That mapping is usually inferred through end-to-end (manifestation-to-affect)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Kosmas Pinitas , Konstantinos Makantasis , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Emotions play a crucial role in human life. The research community has proposed many theories on emotions without reaching much consensus. The situation is similar for emotions in cognitive architectures and autonomous agents. I propose in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-23 Yue Jin

Canonical emotions, such as happy, sad, and fearful, are easy to understand and annotate. However, emotions are often compound, e.g. happily surprised, and can be mapped to the action units (AUs) used for expressing emotions, and trivially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Reni Paskaleva , Mykyta Holubakha , Andela Ilic , Saman Motamed , Luc Van Gool , Danda Paudel

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

The study of human emotions, traditionally a cornerstone in fields like psychology and neuroscience, has been profoundly impacted by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). Multiple channels, such as speech (voice) and facial…

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

Human emotion is expressed, perceived and captured using a variety of dynamic data modalities, such as speech (verbal), videos (facial expressions) and motion sensors (body gestures). We propose a generalized approach to emotion recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 A. Shirian , S. Tripathi , T. Guha

Automatic facial expression recognition is an important research area in the emotion recognition and computer vision. Applications can be found in several domains such as medical treatment, driver fatigue surveillance, sociable robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sevegni Odilon Clement Allognon , Alessandro L. Koerich , Alceu de S. Britto

The emotion recognition has attracted more attention in recent decades. Although significant progress has been made in the recognition technology of the seven basic emotions, existing methods are still hard to tackle compound emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sunan Li , Hailun Lian , Cheng Lu , Yan Zhao , Tianhua Qi , Hao Yang , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng

Physiological Signals are the most reliable form of signals for emotion recognition, as they cannot be controlled deliberately by the subject. Existing review papers on emotion recognition based on physiological signals surveyed only the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zeeshan Ahmad , Naimul Khan