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Speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a critical role in building emotion-aware speech systems, but its performance degrades significantly under noisy conditions. Although speech enhancement (SE) can improve robustness, it often introduces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Jing-Tong Tzeng , Carlos Busso , Chi-Chun Lee

Despite notable progress, speech emotion recognition (SER) remains challenging due to the intricate and ambiguous nature of speech emotion, particularly in wild world. While current studies primarily focus on recognition and generalization…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yu Pan , Yuguang Yang , Yuheng Huang , Jixun Yao , Jingjing Yin , Yanni Hu , Heng Lu , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and the prevalence of spontaneous, natural speech. While recent approaches leverage self-supervised learning (SSL) representations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Lucas H. Ueda , João G. T. Lima , Paula D. P. Costa

The Multimodal Emotion Recognition challenge MER2024 focuses on recognizing emotions using audio, language, and visual signals. In this paper, we present our submission solutions for the Semi-Supervised Learning Sub-Challenge…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qi Fan , Yutong Li , Yi Xin , Xinyu Cheng , Guanglai Gao , Miao Ma

In recent years, speech emotion recognition (SER) has been used in wide ranging applications, from healthcare to the commercial sector. In addition to signal processing approaches, methods for SER now also use deep learning techniques.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) presents a significant yet persistent challenge in human-computer interaction. While deep learning has advanced spoken language processing, achieving high performance on limited datasets remains a critical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

Despite their strong performance in multimodal emotion reasoning, existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often overlook the scenarios involving emotion conflicts, where emotional cues from different modalities are inconsistent.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhiyuan Han , Beier Zhu , Yanlong Xu , Peipei Song , Xun Yang

Multimodal speech recognition aims to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems by leveraging additional visual information that is usually associated to the audio input. While previous approaches make crucial…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Dan Oneata , Horia Cucu

Multi-modal Multi-label Emotion Recognition (MMER) aims to identify various human emotions from heterogeneous visual, audio and text modalities. Previous methods mainly focus on projecting multiple modalities into a common latent space and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yi Zhang , Mingyuan Chen , Jundong Shen , Chongjun Wang

Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ozan Caglayan , Ramon Sanabria , Shruti Palaskar , Loïc Barrault , Florian Metze

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the uncertainty of human emotional expression and the heterogeneity gap between different modalities. Audio and text modalities are particularly important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Joshua Reiss

With the release of increasing open-source emotion recognition datasets on social media platforms and the rapid development of computing resources, multimodal emotion recognition tasks (MER) have begun to receive widespread research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Automatic emotion recognition is one of the central concerns of the Human-Computer Interaction field as it can bridge the gap between humans and machines. Current works train deep learning models on low-level data representations to solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Mariana Rodrigues Makiuchi , Kuniaki Uto , Koichi Shinoda

To establish empathy with machines, it is essential to fully understand human emotional changes. However, research in multimodal emotion recognition often overlooks one problem: individual expressive traits vary significantly, which means…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kexue Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is the task of recognising human's emotional states from speech. SER is extremely prevalent in helping dialogue systems to truly understand our emotions and become a trustworthy human conversational partner.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhao Ren , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Yi Chang , Björn W. Schuller

This paper presents an audio visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) system using a Transformer-based architecture. We particularly focus on the scene context provided by the visual information, to ground the ASR. We extract…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Aparna Khare , Shiva Sundaram

Recent advancements in Deep and Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have led to substantial improvements in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) performance, reaching unprecedented levels. However, obtaining sufficient amounts of accurately labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bulat Khaertdinov , Pedro Jeuris , Annanda Sousa , Enrique Hortal

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging problem because human convey emotions in subtle and complex ways. For emotion recognition on human speech, one can either extract emotion related features from audio signals or employ speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Haiyang Xu , Hui Zhang , Kun Han , Yun Wang , Yiping Peng , Xiangang Li

In this work, we detail our submission to the 2024 edition of the MSP-Podcast Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Challenge. This challenge is divided into two distinct tasks: Categorical Emotion Recognition and Emotional Attribute Prediction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jarod Duret , Mickael Rouvier , Yannick Estève