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Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to accurately identify human emotional states by integrating heterogeneous modalities such as visual, auditory, and textual data. Existing approaches predominantly rely on unified emotion labels to…

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This work presents MAD (Multimodal Affection Dataset), a multimodal emotion dataset designed for affective computing and neurophysiological modeling. MAD is built upon synchronous collection of diverse physiological signals (EEG, ECG, EOG,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Shengwei Guo , Yunqing Qiao , Wenzhan Zhang , Bo Liu , Yong Wang , Guobing Sun

Emotion recognition is essential for applications in affective computing and behavioral prediction, but conventional systems relying on single-modality data often fail to capture the complexity of affective states. To address this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Jianlu Wang , Yanan Wang , Tong Liu

Multimodal sentiment analysis is an active research area that combines multiple data modalities, e.g., text, image and audio, to analyze human emotions and benefits a variety of applications. Existing multimodal sentiment analysis methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yangmin Li , Ruiqi Zhu , Wengen Li

The integration of information across multiple modalities and across time is a promising way to enhance the emotion recognition performance of affective systems. Much previous work has focused on instantaneous emotion recognition. The 2018…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Didan Deng , Yuqian Zhou , Jimin Pi , Bertram E. Shi

Decades of research indicate that emotion recognition is more effective when drawing information from multiple modalities. But what if some modalities are sometimes missing? To address this problem, we propose a novel Transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L. Crowley

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Fusing multiple modalities has proven effective for multimodal information processing. However, the incongruity between modalities poses a challenge for multimodal fusion, especially in affect recognition. In this study, we first analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yaoting Wang , Yuanchao Li , Paul Pu Liang , Louis-Philippe Morency , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Current FER (Facial Expression Recognition) dataset is mostly labeled by emotion categories, such as happy, angry, sad, fear, disgust, surprise, and neutral which are limited in expressiveness. However, future affective computing requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yi Huo , Yun Ge

Emotion recognition is a critical component of affective computing. Training accurate machine learning models for emotion recognition typically requires a large amount of labeled data. Due to the subtleness and complexity of emotions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yifan Xu , Xue Jiang , Dongrui Wu

Emotion recognition in real-world environments is hindered by partial occlusions, missing modalities, and severe class imbalance. To address these issues, particularly for the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jun Yu , Naixiang Zheng , Guoyuan Wang , Yunxiang Zhang , Lingsi Zhu , Jiaen Liang , Wei Huang , Shengping Liu

Multimodal affective computing, learning to recognize and interpret human affects and subjective information from multiple data sources, is still challenging because: (i) it is hard to extract informative features to represent human affects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Yue Gu , Kangning Yang , Shiyu Fu , Shuhong Chen , Xinyu Li , Ivan Marsic

Multimodal sarcasm detection, which aims to precisely identify pragmatic incongruities between literal text and nonverbal cues, has gained substantial attention in multimodal understanding. Recent advancements have predominantly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maoheng Li , Ling Zhou , Xiaohua Huang , Rubing Huang , Wenming Zheng , Guoying Zhao

Ambivalence and hesitancy (A/H) are subtle affective states where a person shows conflicting signals through different channels -- saying one thing while their face or voice tells another story. Recognising these states automatically is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Hichem Telli , Azeddine Benlamoudi , Salah Eddine Herrouz , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed , Abdenour Hadid

Multi-modal affective computing aims to automatically recognize and interpret human attitudes from diverse data sources such as images and text, thereby enhancing human-computer interaction and emotion understanding. Existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuanhe Tian , Pengsen Cheng , Guoqing Jin , Lei Zhang , Yan Song

Multimodal emotion analysis performed better in emotion recognition depending on more comprehensive emotional clues and multimodal emotion dataset. In this paper, we developed a large multimodal emotion dataset, named "HED" dataset, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhongyu Fang , Aoyun He , Qihui Yu , Baopeng Gao , Weiping Ding , Tong Zhang , Lei Ma

Multimodal sentiment analysis has a wide range of applications due to its information complementarity in multimodal interactions. Previous works focus more on investigating efficient joint representations, but they rarely consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Rongfei Chen , Wenju Zhou , Yang Li , Huiyu Zhou

Traditional psychological evaluations rely heavily on human observation and interpretation, which are prone to subjectivity, bias, fatigue, and inconsistency. To address these limitations, this work presents a multimodal emotion recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kris Kraack

The effectiveness of a model is heavily reliant on the quality of the fusion representation of multiple modalities in multimodal sentiment analysis. Moreover, each modality is extracted from raw input and integrated with the rest to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Cong-Duy Nguyen , Thong Nguyen , Duc Anh Vu , Luu Anh Tuan

We introduce Multimodal Matching based on Valence and Arousal (MMVA), a tri-modal encoder framework designed to capture emotional content across images, music, and musical captions. To support this framework, we expand the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Suhwan Choi , Kyu Won Kim , Myungjoo Kang