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Emotion recognition (ER) is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), due to its high impact in real-world applications from health and well-being to author profiling, consumer analysis and security. Current approaches to ER,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hassan Alhuzali , Sophia Ananiadou

Humans show language-biased image recognition for a word-embedded image, known as picture-word interference. Such interference depends on hierarchical semantic categories and reflects that human language processing highly interacts with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yoann Lemesle , Masataka Sawayama , Guillermo Valle-Perez , Maxime Adolphe , Hélène Sauzéon , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

This study investigates the cognitive plausibility of a pretrained multimodal model, CLIP, in recognizing emotions evoked by abstract visual art. We employ a dataset comprising images with associated emotion labels and textual rationales of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Hanna-Sophia Widhoelzl , Ece Takmaz

Image captioning is a research area of immense importance, aiming to generate natural language descriptions for visual content in the form of still images. The advent of deep learning and more recently vision-language pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

This paper examines potential biases and inconsistencies in emotional evocation of images produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) models and their potential bias toward negative emotions. In particular, we assess this bias by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maneet Mehta , Cody Buntain

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations remains a challenging task due to the complex interplay of textual, acoustic and visual signals. While recent models have improved performance via advanced fusion strategies, they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Guanyu Hu , Dimitrios Kollias , Xinyu Yang

In daily life, images as common affective stimuli have widespread applications. Despite significant progress in text-driven image editing, there is limited work focusing on understanding users' emotional requests. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Peixuan Zhang , Shuchen Weng , Chengxuan Zhu , Binghao Tang , Zijian Jia , Si Li , Boxin Shi

Human emotion is expressed in many communication modalities and media formats and so their computational study is equally diversified into natural language processing, audio signal analysis, computer vision, etc. Similarly, the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

This paper proposes a feature-based domain adaptation technique for identifying emotions in generic images, encompassing both facial and non-facial objects, as well as non-human components. This approach addresses the challenge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Puneet Kumar , Balasubramanian Raman

Speech emotion recognition is a challenge and an important step towards more natural human-computer interaction (HCI). The popular approach is multimodal emotion recognition based on model-level fusion, which means that the multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Fan Qian , Jiqing Han

Datasets that capture the connection between vision, language, and affection are limited, causing a lack of understanding of the emotional aspect of human intelligence. As a step in this direction, the ArtEmis dataset was recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Youssef Mohamed , Faizan Farooq Khan , Kilichbek Haydarov , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Emotion recognition based on Electroencephalography (EEG) has gained significant attention and diversified development in fields such as neural signal processing and affective computing. However, the unique brain anatomy of individuals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Yihang Dong , Xuhang Chen , Yanyan Shen , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Tao Qian , Shuqiang Wang

Existing approaches to image captioning usually generate the sentence word-by-word from left to right, with the constraint of conditioned on local context including the given image and history generated words. There have been many studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhengcong Fei , Junshi Huang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei

Images shared online strongly influence emotions and public well-being. Understanding the emotions an image elicits is therefore vital for fostering healthier and more sustainable digital communities, especially during public crises. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Fanhang Man , Xiaoyue Chen , Huandong Wang , Baining Zhao , Han Li , Xinlei Chen

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

Research in emotion analysis is scattered across different label formats (e.g., polarity types, basic emotion categories, and affective dimensions), linguistic levels (word vs. sentence vs. discourse), and, of course, (few well-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Sven Buechel , Luise Modersohn , Udo Hahn

Training Large Multimodality Models (LMMs) relies on descriptive image caption that connects image and language. Existing methods for generating such captions often rely on distilling the captions from pretrained LMMs, constructing them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yanpeng Sun , Jing Hao , Ke Zhu , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Yuxiang Zhao , Xiaofan Li , Na Zhao , Zechao Li , Jingdong Wang

Emotions are usually evoked in humans by images. Recently, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to understanding the emotions of images. In this chapter, we aim to introduce image emotion analysis (IEA) from a computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sicheng Zhao , Quanwei Huang , Youbao Tang , Xingxu Yao , Jufeng Yang , Guiguang Ding , Björn W. Schuller

Speech emotion recognition is an important aspect of human-computer interaction. Prior work proposes various end-to-end models to improve the classification performance. However, most of them rely on the cross-entropy loss together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zheng Lian , Ya Li , Jianhua Tao , Jian Huang

Human beings have rich ways of emotional expressions, including facial action, voice, and natural languages. Due to the diversity and complexity of different individuals, the emotions expressed by various modalities may be semantically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Chuan Zhang , Daoxin Zhang , Ruixiu Zhang , Jiawei Li , Jianke Zhu