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Decoding emotional states from human brain activity plays an important role in brain-computer interfaces. Existing emotion decoding methods still have two main limitations: one is only decoding a single emotion category from a brain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Kaicheng Fu , Changde Du , Shengpei Wang , Huiguang He

Understanding emotions and expressions is a task of interest across multiple disciplines, especially for improving user experiences. Contrary to the common perception, it has been shown that emotions are not discrete entities but instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Niklas Wagner , Felix Mätzler , Samed R. Vossberg , Helen Schneider , Svetlana Pavlitska , J. Marius Zöllner

Emotion detection from text seeks to identify an individual's emotional or mental state - positive, negative, or neutral - based on linguistic cues. While significant progress has been made for English and other high-resource languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Abdullah Al Maruf , Aditi Golder , Zakaria Masud Jiyad , Abdullah Al Numan , Tarannum Shaila Zaman

The human brain constructs emotional percepts not by processing facial expressions in isolation, but through a dynamic, hierarchical integration of sensory input with semantic and contextual knowledge. However, existing vision-based dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Huanzhen Wang , Ziheng Zhou , Zeng Tao , Aoxing Li , Yingkai Zhao , Yuxuan Lin , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

The performance of speech emotion recognition (SER) is limited by the insufficient emotion information in unimodal systems and the feature alignment difficulties in multimodal systems. Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yiqing Yang , Man-Wai Mak

Multimodal sentiment analysis, a pivotal task in affective computing, seeks to understand human emotions by integrating cues from language, audio, and visual signals. While many recent approaches leverage complex attention mechanisms and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Nischal Mandal , Yang Li

Emotion elicitation using emotional film clips is one of the most common and ecologically valid methods in Affective Computing. However, selecting and validating appropriate materials that evoke a range of emotions is challenging. Here we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rukshani Somarathna , Patrik Vuilleumier , Gelareh Mohammadi

Existing digital mental wellness tools often overlook the nuanced emotional states underlying everyday challenges. For example, pre-sleep anxiety affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, yet current approaches remain largely static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xinchen Wan , Jinhua Liang , Huan Zhang

Emotion is essential in spoken communication, yet most existing frameworks in speech emotion modeling rely on predefined categories or low-dimensional continuous attributes, which offer limited expressive capacity. Recent advances in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Tianhua Qi , Wenming Zheng , Björn W. Schuller , Zhaojie Luo , Haizhou Li

Recognizing emotions during social interactions has many potential applications with the popularization of low-cost mobile sensors, but a challenge remains with the lack of naturalistic affective interaction data. Most existing emotion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Cheul Young Park , Narae Cha , Soowon Kang , Auk Kim , Ahsan Habib Khandoker , Leontios Hadjileontiadis , Alice Oh , Yong Jeong , Uichin Lee

In cinematography, visual attributes such as color grading, contrast, and brightness are manipulated to reinforce the emotional narrative of a scene. However, conventional Image Signal Processors (ISPs) prioritize scene fidelity,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Dor Barber , Rony Zatzarinni , Hava Matichin , Noam Levy

In this manuscript, the topic of multi-corpus Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is approached from a deep transfer learning perspective. A large corpus of emotional speech data, EmoSet, is assembled from a number of existing SER corpora. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Maurice Gerczuk , Shahin Amiriparian , Sandra Ottl , Björn Schuller

We present a model to predict fine-grained emotions along the continuous dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance (VAD) with a corpus with categorical emotion annotations. Our model is trained by minimizing the EMD (Earth Mover's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Sungjoon Park , Jiseon Kim , Seonghyeon Ye , Jaeyeol Jeon , Hee Young Park , Alice Oh

While multiple emotional speech corpora exist for commonly spoken languages, there is a lack of functional datasets for smaller (spoken) languages, such as Danish. To our knowledge, Danish Emotional Speech (DES), published in 1997, is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Maja J. Hjuler , Harald V. Skat-Rørdam , Line H. Clemmensen , Sneha Das

The Complex Emotion Recognition System (CERS) deciphers complex emotional states by examining combinations of basic emotions expressed, their interconnections, and the dynamic variations. Through the utilization of advanced algorithms, CERS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Mohammad Maftoun , Bahareh Nakisa , Roohallah Alizadehsani , Meisam Yadollahzadeh-Tabari

The Emotional Voice Conversion (EVC) aims to convert the discrete emotional state from the source emotion to the target for a given speech utterance while preserving linguistic content. In this paper, we propose regularizing emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Ashishkumar Gudmalwar , Ishan D. Biyani , Nirmesh Shah , Pankaj Wasnik , Rajiv Ratn Shah

This paper presents an emotion-regularized conditional variational autoencoder (Emo-CVAE) model for generating emotional conversation responses. In conventional CVAE-based emotional response generation, emotion labels are simply used as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yu-Ping Ruan , Zhen-Hua Ling

The versatility of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural language understanding has made them increasingly popular in mental health research. While many studies explore LLMs' capabilities in emotion recognition, a critical gap remains in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Bangzhao Shu , Isha Joshi , Melissa Karnaze , Anh C. Pham , Ishita Kakkar , Sindhu Kothe , Arpine Hovasapian , Mai ElSherief

Emotion recognition is a critical task in human-computer interaction, enabling more intuitive and responsive systems. This study presents a multimodal emotion recognition system that combines low-level information from audio and text,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Shamin Bin Habib Avro , Taieba Taher , Nursadul Mamun