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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal emotion recognition capabilities, integrating multimodal cues from visual, acoustic, and linguistic contexts in the video to recognize human emotional states.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Liyun Zhang

Humans modify their facial expressions in order to communicate their internal states and sometimes to mislead observers regarding their true emotional states. Evidence in experimental psychology shows that discriminative facial responses…

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Human affective recognition is an important factor in human-computer interaction. However, the method development with in-the-wild data is not yet accurate enough for practical usage. In this paper, we introduce the affective recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Sachihiro Youoku , Yuushi Toyoda , Takahisa Yamamoto , Junya Saito , Ryosuke Kawamura , Xiaoyu Mi , Kentaro Murase

Facial micro-expressions (MEs) are involuntary movements of the face that occur spontaneously when a person experiences an emotion but attempts to suppress or repress the facial expression, typically found in a high-stakes environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xinqi Fan , Jingting Li , John See , Moi Hoon Yap , Su-Jing Wang , Adrian K. Davison

Automated metaphor detection is a challenging task to identify metaphorical expressions of words in a sentence. To tackle this problem, we adopt pre-trained contextualized models, e.g., BERT and RoBERTa. To this end, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Eunseong Choi , Heesoo Park , Junhyuk Lee , Dongwon Lee , Jongwuk Lee

Facial micro-expressions are sudden involuntary minute muscle movements which reveal true emotions that people try to conceal. Spotting a micro-expression and recognizing it is a major challenge owing to its short duration and intensity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Sauradip Nag , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aishik Konwer , Partha Pratim Roy

Micro-expressions (MEs), brief and low-intensity facial movements revealing concealed emotions, are crucial for affective computing. Despite notable progress in ME recognition, existing methods are largely confined to discrete emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sirui Zhao , Zhengye Zhang , Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Shukang Yin , Chaoyou Fu , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Group emotion recognition in the wild is a challenging problem, due to the unstructured environments in which everyday life pictures are taken. Some of the obstacles for an effective classification are occlusions, variable lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Luca Surace , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Elena Battini Sönmez , William Spataro , Angelo Cangelosi

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

As a spontaneous expression of emotion on face, micro-expression reveals the underlying emotion that cannot be controlled by human. In micro-expression, facial movement is transient and sparsely localized through time. However, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Tao Bi , Tong Chen , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou

How much does ethnicity play its part in emotional expression? Emotional expression and micro-expression research probe into understanding human psychological responses to emotional stimuli, thereby revealing substantial hidden yet…

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Existing 3D facial emotion modeling have been constrained by limited emotion classes and insufficient datasets. This paper introduces "Emo3D", an extensive "Text-Image-Expression dataset" spanning a wide spectrum of human emotions, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mahshid Dehghani , Amirahmad Shafiee , Ali Shafiei , Neda Fallah , Farahmand Alizadeh , Mohammad Mehdi Gholinejad , Hamid Behroozi , Jafar Habibi , Ehsaneddin Asgari

Despite their success in a variety of NLP tasks, pre-trained language models, due to their heavy reliance on compositionality, fail in effectively capturing the meanings of multiword expressions (MWEs), especially idioms. Therefore,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Harish Tayyar Madabushi , Edward Gow-Smith , Carolina Scarton , Aline Villavicencio

A novel procedure is presented in this paper, for training a deep convolutional and recurrent neural network, taking into account both the available training data set and some information extracted from similar networks trained with other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Speech Emotion Conversion aims to modify the emotion expressed in input speech while preserving lexical content and speaker identity. Recently, generative modeling approaches have shown promising results in changing local acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Navin Raj Prabhu , Danilo de Oliveira , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Effectiveness of speech emotion recognition in real-world scenarios is often hindered by noisy environments and variability across datasets. This paper introduces a two-step approach to enhance the robustness and generalization of speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Upasana Tiwari , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

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

Expression recognition in in-the-wild video data remains challenging due to substantial variations in facial appearance, background conditions, audio noise, and the inherently dynamic nature of human affect. Relying on a single modality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Junhyeong Byeon , Jeongyeol Kim , Sejoon Lim

In this paper we introduce AFFDEX 2.0 - a toolkit for analyzing facial expressions in the wild, that is, it is intended for users aiming to; a) estimate the 3D head pose, b) detect facial Action Units (AUs), c) recognize basic emotions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mina Bishay , Kenneth Preston , Matthew Strafuss , Graham Page , Jay Turcot , Mohammad Mavadati

Emotional expressiveness captures the extent to which a person tends to outwardly display their emotions through behavior. Due to the close relationship between emotional expressiveness and behavioral health, as well as the crucial role…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Michael A. Sayette , Louis-Philippe Morency