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Recent advances in Talking Head Generation (THG) have achieved impressive lip synchronization and visual quality through diffusion models; yet existing methods struggle to generate emotionally expressive portraits while preserving speaker…

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Effective speech emotional representations play a key role in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) and Emotional Text-To-Speech (TTS) tasks. However, emotional speech samples are more difficult and expensive to acquire compared with Neutral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Shijun Wang , Jón Guðnason , Damian Borth

We introduce Deep Adaptive Semantic Logic (DASL), a novel framework for automating the generation of deep neural networks that incorporates user-provided formal knowledge to improve learning from data. We provide formal semantics that…

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Sign Language Production (SLP) is the process of converting the complex input text into a real video. Most previous works focused on the Text2Gloss, Gloss2Pose, Pose2Vid stages, and some concentrated on Prompt2Gloss and Text2Avatar stages.…

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Understanding the multi-dimensional attributes and intensity nuances of image-evoked emotions is pivotal for advancing machine empathy and empowering diverse human-computer interaction applications. However, existing models are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lancheng Gao , Ziheng Jia , Zixuan Xing , Wei Sun , Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

Empathetic speech dialogue requires not only understanding linguistic content but also perceiving rich paralinguistic information such as prosody, tone, and emotional intensity for affective understandings. Existing speech-to-speech large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Zhuoyue Gao , Xiaohui Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Wen Zhang , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang

Sign Languages are the primary form of communication for Deaf communities across the world. To break the communication barriers between the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and the hearing communities, it is imperative to build systems capable of…

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Emotion understanding is critical for making Large Language Models (LLMs) more general, reliable, and aligned with humans. Art conveys emotion through the joint design of visual and auditory elements, yet most prior work is human-centered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dengming Zhang , Weitao You , Jingxiong Li , Weishen Lin , Wenda Shi , Xue Zhao , Heda Zuo , Junxian Wu , Lingyun Sun

Empathetic response generation aims to generate empathetic responses by understanding the speaker's emotional feelings from the language of dialogue. Recent methods capture emotional words in the language of communicators and construct them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhou Yang , Zhaochun Ren , Yufeng Wang , Xiaofei Zhu , Zhihao Chen , Tiecheng Cai , Yunbing Wu , Yisong Su , Sibo Ju , Xiangwen Liao

The furnishing of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has led to the emergence of numerous benchmark studies, particularly those evaluating their perception and understanding capabilities. Among these, understanding image-evoked…

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Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) aims to provide empathetic and effective emotional assistance through dialogue, addressing the growing demand for mental health support. This paper presents our solution for the NLPCC 2025 Task 8 ESC…

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Sign language translation (SLT) is a challenging task that involves translating sign language images into spoken language. For SLT models to perform this task successfully, they must bridge the modality gap and identify subtle variations in…

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Emotions are physiological states generated in humans in reaction to internal or external events. They are complex and studied across numerous fields including computer science. As humans, on reading "Why don't you ever text me!" we can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Umang Gupta , Ankush Chatterjee , Radhakrishnan Srikanth , Puneet Agrawal

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems often assume congruence between vocal emotion and lexical semantics. However, in real-world interactions, acoustic-semantic conflict is common yet overlooked, where the emotion conveyed by tone…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Dawei Huang , Yongjie Lv , Ruijie Xiong , Chunxiang Jin , Xiaojiang Peng

Deep learning models trained on audio-visual data have been successfully used to achieve state-of-the-art performance for emotion recognition. In particular, models trained with multitask learning have shown additional performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Raghuveer Peri , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Charles Bradshaw , Shiva Sundaram

Achieving disentangled control over multiple facial motions and accommodating diverse input modalities greatly enhances the application and entertainment of the talking head generation. This necessitates a deep exploration of the decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shuai Tan , Bin Ji , Mengxiao Bi , Ye Pan

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations aims to infer utterance-level emotions by jointly modeling textual, acoustic, and visual cues within context. Despite recent progress, key challenges remain, including redundant cross-modal…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Chengling Guo , Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Yun Tan , Keqin Li

Continuous dimensional speech emotion recognition captures affective variation along valence, arousal, and dominance, providing finer-grained representations than categorical approaches. Yet most multimodal methods rely solely on global…

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Sign languages are the language of hearing-impaired people who use visuals like the hand, facial, and body movements for communication. There are different signs and gestures representing alphabets, words, and phrases. Nowadays…

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Empathetic response generation is increasingly significant in AI, necessitating nuanced emotional and cognitive understanding coupled with articulate response expression. Current large language models (LLMs) excel in response expression;…

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