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Emotion understanding is a complex process that involves multiple components. The ability to recognise emotions not only leads to new context awareness methods but also enhances system interaction's effectiveness by perceiving and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Rukshani Somarathna , Gelareh Mohammadi

The task of the emotion recognition in the wild (EmotiW) Challenge is to assign one of seven emotions to short video clips extracted from Hollywood style movies. The videos depict acted-out emotions under realistic conditions with a large…

Classifying group-level emotions is a challenging task due to complexity of video, in which not only visual, but also audio information should be taken into consideration. Existing works on multimodal emotion recognition are using bulky…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Lev Evtodienko

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

Humans infer emotions by integrating observed multimodal cues with expectations about how affective states may unfold. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs), however, often treat emotion recognition as static fusion over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Bo Zhao , Fanghua Ye , Yixin Ji , Sicheng Zhao , Xiaojiang Peng , Zitong YU

Emotion recognition plays a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction, particularly in movie recommendation systems where understanding emotional content is essential. While multimodal approaches combining audio and video have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiangrui Xiong , Zhou Zhou , Guocai Nong , Junlin Deng , Ning Wu

This research aims to comprehensively explore building a multimodal foundation model for egocentric video understanding. To achieve this goal, we work on three fronts. First, as there is a lack of QA data for egocentric video understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hanrong Ye , Haotian Zhang , Erik Daxberger , Lin Chen , Zongyu Lin , Yanghao Li , Bowen Zhang , Haoxuan You , Dan Xu , Zhe Gan , Jiasen Lu , Yinfei Yang

We present our submission to the Hume-ABAW10 Emotional Mimicry Intensity (EMI) Challenge, which aims to predict six continuous emotion intensity dimensions: Admiration, Amusement, Determination, Empathic Pain, Excitement, and Joy, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dinithi Dissanayake , Shaveen Silva , Ovindu Atukorala , Prasanth Sasikumar , Suranga Nanayakkara

Understanding emotions is a fundamental ability for intelligent systems to be able to interact with humans. Vision-language models (VLMs) have made tremendous progress in the last few years for many visual tasks, potentially offering a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Madhav Agarwal , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Steven McDonagh

Expressing and identifying emotions through facial and physical expressions is a significant part of social interaction. Emotion recognition is an essential task in computer vision due to its various applications and mainly for allowing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Willams Costa , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Lucas S. Figueiredo , Veronica Teichrieb

In this paper, we introduce EmoGist, a training-free, in-context learning method for performing visual emotion classification with LVLMs. The key intuition of our approach is that context-dependent definition of emotion labels could allow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ronald Seoh , Dan Goldwasser

Throughout the past decade, many studies have classified human emotions using only a single sensing modality such as face video, electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), etc. The results of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Siddharth Siddharth , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Terrence J. Sejnowski

Understanding the process of emotion generation is crucial for analyzing the causes behind emotions. Causal Emotion Entailment (CEE), an emotion-understanding task, aims to identify the causal utterances in a conversation that stimulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhaopei Huang , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin

While affective computing has advanced considerably, multimodal emotion prediction in aging populations remains underexplored, largely due to the scarcity of dedicated datasets. Existing multimodal benchmarks predominantly target young,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hongbin Chen , Jie Li , Wei Wang , Siyang Song , Xiao Gu , Jianqing Li , Wentao Xiang

Video Foundation Models (ViFMs) aim to learn a general-purpose representation for various video understanding tasks. Leveraging large-scale datasets and powerful models, ViFMs achieve this by capturing robust and generic features from video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Neelu Madan , Andreas Moegelmose , Rajat Modi , Yogesh S. Rawat , Thomas B. Moeslund

Facial affective behavior analysis (FABA) is crucial for understanding human mental states from images. However, traditional approaches primarily deploy models to discriminate among discrete emotion categories, and lack the fine granularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yifan Li , Anh Dao , Wentao Bao , Zhen Tan , Tianlong Chen , Huan Liu , Yu Kong

The significance of emotion detection is increasing in education, entertainment, and various other domains. We are developing a system that can identify and transform facial expressions into emojis to provide immediate feedback.The project…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Abhilash Khuntia , Shubham Kale

Despite rapid progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their capability for deep emotional understanding remains limited. We argue that genuine affective intelligence requires explicit modeling of Theory of Mind (ToM), the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Meng Luo , Bobo Li , Shanqing Xu , Shize Zhang , Qiuchan Chen , Menglu Han , Wenhao Chen , Yanxiang Huang , Hao Fei , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

In recent years, the use of bio-sensing signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), etc. have garnered interest towards applications in affective computing. The parallel trend of deep-learning has led to a huge leap…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Siddharth Siddharth , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Terrence J. Sejnowski

Emotion understanding is a fundamental challenge in affective computing and artificial intelligence. While existing approaches predominantly focus on facial expressions and speech, they often overlook the rich emotional cues conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chengyan Wang , Haoyu Chen , Hui Wei , Yueyi Yang , Yunquan Chen , Guoying Zhao