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Art has long been a profound medium for expressing emotions. While existing image stylization methods effectively transform visual appearance, they often overlook the emotional impact carried by styles. To bridge this gap, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jingyuan Yang , Zihuan Bai , Hui Huang

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

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

Visual emotion analysis holds significant research value in both computer vision and psychology. However, existing methods for visual emotion analysis suffer from limited generalizability due to the ambiguity of emotion perception and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Chuang Chen , Xiao Sun , Zhi Liu

Affective Image Manipulation (AIM) seeks to modify user-provided images to evoke specific emotional responses. This task is inherently complex due to its twofold objective: significantly evoking the intended emotion, while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jingyuan Yang , Jiawei Feng , Weibin Luo , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

The creation of increasingly vivid 3D talking face has become a hot topic in recent years. Currently, most speech-driven works focus on lip synchronisation but neglect to effectively capture the correlations between emotions and facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yihong Lin , Liang Peng , Zhaoxin Fan , Xianjia Wu , Jianqiao Hu , Xiandong Li , Wenxiong Kang , Songju Lei

In the domain of human-computer interaction, accurately recognizing and interpreting human emotions is crucial yet challenging due to the complexity and subtlety of emotional expressions. This study explores the potential for detecting a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiehui Jia , Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang

This paper focuses on a key challenge in visual emotion understanding: given an art image, the model pinpoints pixel regions that trigger a specific human emotion, and generates linguistic explanations for it. Despite advances in general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jing Zhang , Dan Guo , Zhangbin Li , Meng Wang

Videos can evoke a range of affective responses in viewers. The ability to predict evoked affect from a video, before viewers watch the video, can help in content creation and video recommendation. We introduce the Evoked Expressions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jennifer J. Sun , Ting Liu , Alan S. Cowen , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Gautam Prasad

We propose EmoLat, a novel emotion latent space that enables fine-grained, text-driven image sentiment transfer by modeling cross-modal correlations between textual semantics and visual emotion features. Within EmoLat, an emotion semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jing Zhang , Bingjie Fan , Jixiang Zhu , Zhe Wang

Emotional information is essential for enhancing human-computer interaction and deepening image understanding. However, while deep learning has advanced image recognition, the intuitive understanding and precise control of emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Junjie Xu , Xingjiao Wu , Tanren Yao , Zihao Zhang , Jiayang Bei , Wu Wen , Liang He

Emotion lexica are commonly used resources to combat data poverty in automatic emotion detection. However, vocabulary coverage issues, differences in construction method and discrepancies in emotion framework and representation result in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Luna De Bruyne , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

In recent years, great strides have been made in the field of affective computing. Several models have been developed to represent and quantify emotions. Two popular ones include (i) categorical models which represent emotions as discrete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Surabhi S. Nath , Vishaal Udandarao , Jainendra Shukla

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

Descriptive Multimodal Emotion Recognition (DMER) has garnered increasing research attention. Unlike traditional discriminative paradigms that rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, DMER aims to describe human emotional state using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zheng Lian , Licai Sun , Lan Chen , Haoyu Chen , Zebang Cheng , Fan Zhang , Ziyu Jia , Ziyang Ma , Fei Ma , Xiaojiang Peng , Jianhua Tao

From a computational viewpoint, emotions continue to be intriguingly hard to understand. In research, direct, real-time inspection in realistic settings is not possible. Discrete, indirect, post-hoc recordings are therefore the norm. As a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Karan Sharma , Claudio Castellini , Egon L. van den Broek , Alin Albu-Schaeffer , Friedhelm Schwenker

It is important for machines to interpret human emotions properly for better human-machine communications, as emotion is an essential part of human-to-human communications. One aspect of emotion is reflected in the language we use. How to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Ji Ho Park

Emotional talking head synthesis aims to generate talking portrait videos with vivid expressions. Existing methods still exhibit limitations in control flexibility, motion naturalness, and expression quality. Moreover, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yiguo Jiang , Xiaodong Cun , Yong Zhang , Yudian Zheng , Fan Tang , Chi-Man Pun

Emotion perception and adaptive expression are fundamental capabilities in human-agent interaction. While recent advances in speech emotion captioning (SEC) have improved fine-grained emotional modeling, existing systems remain limited to…

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