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Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems have demonstrated huge improvements and human-level parity in a range of activities, including speech recognition, face recognition and speaker verification. However, these diverse tasks…

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Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) that integrates Electroencephalogram (EEG) with peripheral physiological signals (PPS) is crucial for the development of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. However, existing methods encounter three…

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Emotion recognition plays a pivotal role in intelligent human-machine interaction systems. Multimodal approaches benefit from the fusion of diverse modalities, thereby improving the recognition accuracy. However, the lack of high-quality…

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Understanding human emotions from multimodal signals poses a significant challenge in affective computing and human-robot interaction. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have excelled in general vision-language tasks, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaojiang Peng , Jingyi Chen , Zebang Cheng , Bao Peng , Fengyi Wu , Yifei Dong , Shuyuan Tu , Qiyu Hu , Huiting Huang , Yuxiang Lin , Jun-Yan He , Kai Wang , Zheng Lian , Zhi-Qi Cheng

Multimodal multi-label emotion recognition (MMER) aims to identify the concurrent presence of multiple emotions in multimodal data. Existing studies primarily focus on improving fusion strategies and modeling modality-to-label dependencies.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jingwang Huang , Jiang Zhong , Qin Lei , Jinpeng Gao , Yuming Yang , Sirui Wang , Peiguang Li , Kaiwen Wei

In the context of today's high-pressure, aging society, the demand for large-scale emotional models capable of providing empathetic support is more critical than ever. However, existing benchmarks fail to simultaneously achieve ecological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pengze Guo , Jingxi Liang , Zhiwen Xie , Qifeng Wang , Derek F. Wong

The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advances multimodal emotion recognition (MER) to the next level, from naive discriminative tasks to complex emotion understanding with advanced video understanding abilities and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zheng Lian , Haoyu Chen , Lan Chen , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Yong Ren , Zebang Cheng , Bin Liu , Rui Liu , Xiaojiang Peng , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

Memory systems address the challenge of context loss in Large Language Model during prolonged interactions. However, compared to human cognition, the efficacy of these systems in processing emotion-related information remains inconclusive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Peng Liu , Zhen Tao , Jihao Zhao , Ding Chen , Yansong Zhang , Cuiping Li , Zhiyu Li , Hong Chen

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC), the task of identifying the emotion label for each utterance in a conversation, is vital for developing empathetic machines. Current MLLM-based MERC studies focus mainly on capturing…

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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

Multi-modal conversation emotion recognition (MCER) aims to recognize and track the speaker's emotional state using text, speech, and visual information in the conversation scene. Analyzing and studying MCER issues is significant to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Fangze Fu , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feng Li , Jiusong Luo , Wanjun Xia

Emotional Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is valuable for diagnosing health conditions such as autism and depression, and for understanding the emotions of individuals who struggle to express their feelings. Current ERC methods primarily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zijian Kang , Yueyang Li , Shengyu Gong , Weiming Zeng , Hongjie Yan , Lingbin Bian , Zhiguo Zhang , Wai Ting Siok , Nizhuan Wang

The main task of Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) is to identify the emotions in modalities, e.g., text, audio, image and video, which is a significant development direction for realizing machine intelligence. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Nan Yin , Keqin Li

Emotion recognition plays a vital role in enhancing human-computer interaction. In this study, we tackle the MER-SEMI challenge of the MER2025 competition by proposing a novel multimodal emotion recognition framework. To address the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Juewen Hu , Yexin Li , Jiulin Li , Shuo Chen , Pring Wong

Audiovisual emotion recognition (AVER) aims to infer human emotions from nonverbal visual-audio (VA) cues, offering modality-complementary and language-agnostic advantages. However, AVER remains challenging due to the inherent ambiguity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hao Cheng , Zhiwei Zhao , Yichao He , Zhenzhen Hu , Jia Li , Meng Wang , Richang Hong

EEG is a non-invasive, safe, and low-risk method to record electrophysiological signals inside the brain. Especially with recent technology developments like dry electrodes, consumer-grade EEG devices, and rapid advances in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tri Duc Ly , Gia H. Ngo

In recent years, Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) has made substantial progress. Nevertheless, most existing approaches neglect the semantic inconsistencies that may arise across modalities, such as conflicting emotional cues between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guowei Zhong , Junjie Li , Huaiyu Zhu , Ruohong Huan , Yun Pan

Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition plays a crucial role in applications such as human-computer interaction and social media analytics. However, current approaches struggle with cue-level perception and reasoning due to two main…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hanwen Zhang , Yao Liu , Peiyuan Jiang , Lang Junjie , Xie Jun , Yihui He , Yajiao Deng , Siyu Du , Qiao Liu

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER), leveraging speech and text, has emerged as a pivotal domain within human-computer interaction, demanding sophisticated methods for effective multimodal integration. The challenge of aligning features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Xuechen Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Haoqin Sun , Hui Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Yong Qin