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Existing affective understanding studies have mainly focused on recognizing emotions from images, audio signals, or pre-cliped video clips, where the affective evidence is already given. This passive and clip-centered setting does not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhen Zhang , Yuhang Yang , Yunxiang Jiang , Yuhuan Lu , Haifeng Lu , Zheng Lian , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

In affective computing, the task of Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) has emerged as a focal area of research. The primary objective of this task is to predict emotional states within conversations by analyzing multimodal data…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Xiaomin Yu , Feiyang Wang , Ziyue Qiao

Affective Computing (AC) is essential for advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with emotion recognition serving as a key component. However, human emotions are inherently dynamic, influenced not only by an individual's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yupei Li , Qiyang Sun , Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy , Emran Alturki , Björn W. Schuller

This paper proposes a system capable of recognizing a speaker's utterance-level emotion through multimodal cues in a video. The system seamlessly integrates multiple AI models to first extract and pre-process multimodal information from the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Sun-Kyung Lee , Jong-Hwan Kim

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong video understanding, yet their application to long-form videos remains constrained by limited context windows. A common workaround is to compress long videos into a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yun Wang , Long Zhang , Jingren Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiahao Zheng , Ao Ma , Run Ling , Xun Yang , Dapeng Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Xuelong Li

People's conduct and reactions are driven by their emotions. Online social media is becoming a great instrument for expressing emotions in written form. Paying attention to the context and the entire sentence help us to detect emotion from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Fereshteh Khoshnam , Ahmad Baraani-Dastjerdi , M. J. Liaghatdar

Large audio-language models (LALMs) exhibit strong zero-shot performance across speech tasks but struggle with speech emotion recognition (SER) due to weak paralinguistic modeling and limited cross-modal reasoning. We propose Compositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiacheng Shi , Hongfei Du , Y. Alicia Hong , Ye Gao

Emotion is an intricate physiological response that plays a crucial role in how we respond and cooperate with others in our daily affairs. Numerous experiments have been evolved to recognize emotion, however still require exploration to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Danastan Tasaouf Mridula , Abu Ahmed Ferdaus , Tanmoy Sarkar Pias

Understanding the emotional impact of movies has become important for affective movie analysis, ranking, and indexing. Methods for recognizing evoked emotions are usually trained on human annotated data. Concretely, viewers watch video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Hassan Hayat , Carles Ventura , Agata Lapedriza

The ever-evolving social media discourse has witnessed an overwhelming use of memes to express opinions or dissent. Besides being misused for spreading malcontent, they are mined by corporations and political parties to glean the public's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Shivam Sharma , Ramaneswaran S , Md. Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Video generative models show emerging reasoning behaviors. It is essential to ensure that generated events remain causally consistent across frames for reliable deployment, a property we define as reasoning coherence. To bridge the gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yu Qi , Xinyi Xu , Ziyu Guo , Siyuan Ma , Renrui Zhang , Xinyan Chen , Ruichuan An , Ruofan Xing , Jiayi Zhang , Haojie Huang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jonathan Tremblay , Lawson L. S. Wong

Translating visual data into natural language is essential for machines to understand the world and interact with humans. In this work, a comprehensive study is conducted on video paragraph captioning, with the goal to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Qinyu Li , Tengpeng Li , Hanli Wang , Chang Wen Chen

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at single-image understanding, they exhibit significantly degraded performance in multi-image reasoning scenarios. Multi-image reasoning presents fundamental challenges including complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jianghao Yin , Qingbin Li , Kun Sun , Cheng Ding , Jie Wang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Nan Wang , Changqing Li , Pei Wu , Jian Xu , Zheming Yang , Liang He

Nowadays, short-form videos (SVs) are essential to web information acquisition and sharing in our daily life. The prevailing use of SVs to spread emotions leads to the necessity of conducting video emotion analysis (VEA) towards SVs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xuecheng Wu , Heli Sun , Junxiao Xue , Jiayu Nie , Xiangyan Kong , Ruofan Zhai , Liang He

Talking face generation has gained significant attention as a core application of generative models. To enhance the expressiveness and realism of synthesized videos, emotion editing in talking face video plays a crucial role. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chanhyuk Choi , Taesoo Kim , Donggyu Lee , Siyeol Jung , Taehwan Kim

In this paper, we present our solution for the Second Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge Track 1(MER2024-SEMI). To enhance the accuracy and generalization performance of emotion recognition, we propose several methods for Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Anbin QI , Zhongliang Liu , Xinyong Zhou , Jinba Xiao , Fengrun Zhang , Qi Gan , Ming Tao , Gaozheng Zhang , Lu Zhang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on objective multimodal perception tasks, but their ability to interpret subjective, emotionally nuanced multimodal content remains largely unexplored. Thus, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Qu Yang , Mang Ye , Bo Du

We present a novel large-scale dataset and accompanying machine learning models aimed at providing a detailed understanding of the interplay between visual content, its emotional effect, and explanations for the latter in language. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Panos Achlioptas , Maks Ovsjanikov , Kilichbek Haydarov , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Leonidas Guibas

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

Human emotions entail a complex set of behavioral, physiological and cognitive changes. Current state-of-the-art models fuse the behavioral and physiological components using classic machine learning, rather than recent deep learning…