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MER2026 marks the fourth edition of the MER series of challenges. The MER series provides valuable data resources to the research community and offers tasks centered on recent research trends, establishing itself as one of the largest…

Emotion recognition is inherently ambiguous, with uncertainty arising both from rater disagreement and from discrepancies across modalities such as speech and text. There is growing interest in modeling rater ambiguity using label…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Jingyao Wu , Grace Lin , Yinuo Song , Rosalind Picard

While the automatic recognition of musical instruments has seen significant progress, the task is still considered hard for music featuring multiple instruments as opposed to single instrument recordings. Datasets for polyphonic instrument…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Siddharth Gururani , Mohit Sharma , Alexander Lerch

This paper presents a Multi-modal Emotion Recognition (MER) system designed to enhance emotion recognition accuracy in challenging acoustic conditions. Our approach combines a modified and extended Hierarchical Token-semantic Audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ohad Cohen , Gershon Hazan , Sharon Gannot

Music emotion recognition (MER) is usually regarded as a multi-label tagging task, and each segment of music can inspire specific emotion tags. Most researchers extract acoustic features from music and explore the relations between these…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Xin Liu , Qingcai Chen , Xiangping Wu , Yan Liu , Yang Liu

This paper aims to test whether a multi-modal approach for music emotion recognition (MER) performs better than a uni-modal one on high-level song features and lyrics. We use 11 song features retrieved from the Spotify API, combined lyrics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Tibor Krols , Yana Nikolova , Ninell Oldenburg

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

Despite the recent progress in speech emotion recognition (SER), state-of-the-art systems are unable to achieve improved performance in cross-language settings. In this paper, we propose a Multimodal Dual Attention Transformer (MDAT) model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Syed Aun Muhammad Zaidi , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har

In recent years, Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) has made substantial progress. Nevertheless, most existing approaches neglect the semantic inconsistencies that may arise across modalities, such as conflicting emotional cues between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guowei Zhong , Junjie Li , Huaiyu Zhu , Ruohong Huan , Yun Pan

Human multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to perceive human emotions via language, visual and acoustic modalities. Despite the impressive performance of previous MER approaches, the inherent multimodal heterogeneities still haunt and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yong Li , Yuanzhi Wang , Zhen Cui

Multi-annotator learning (MAL) aims to model annotator-specific labeling patterns. However, existing methods face a critical challenge: they simply skip updating annotator-specific model parameters when encountering missing labels, i.e., a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Liyun Zhang , Zheng Lian , Hong Liu , Takanori Takebe , Yuta Nakashima

AI assistants that interact with users over time need to interpret the user's current emotional state in order to respond appropriately and personally. However, this capability remains insufficiently evaluated. Existing emotion datasets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Deliang Wen , Ke Sun , Yu Wang

In this work, we present a lightweight and privacy-preserving Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) framework designed for deployment on edge devices. To demonstrate framework's versatility, our implementation uses three modalities - speech,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rémi Grzeczkowicz , Eric Soriano , Ali Janati , Miyu Zhang , Gerard Comas-Quiles , Victor Carballo Araruna , Aneesh Jonelagadda

In cross-modal music processing, translation between visual, auditory, and semantic content opens up new possibilities as well as challenges. The construction of such a transformative scheme depends upon a benchmark corpus with a…

In this paper, we propose a solution for the semi-supervised learning track (MER-SEMI) in MER2024. First, in order to enhance the performance of the feature extractor on sentiment classification tasks,we fine-tuned video and text feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Pujin Shi , Fei Gao

Speech-based depression detection poses significant challenges for automated detection due to its unique manifestation across individuals and data scarcity. Addressing these challenges, we introduce DAAMAudioCNNLSTM and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Georgios Ioannides , Adrian Kieback , Aman Chadha , Aaron Elkins

Automatic emotion recognition (ER) has recently gained lot of interest due to its potential in many real-world applications. In this context, multimodal approaches have been shown to improve performance (over unimodal approaches) by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 R Gnana Praveen , Eric Granger , Patrick Cardinal

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) focuses on identifying and interpreting emotions from modality-compound inputs. Closely mirroring human cognitive processes in real-world environments, MER has drawn substantial attention from both…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hongrui Zhang , Daiqing Wu , Yangyang Li , Kuien Liu , Yuhui Wang , Yu Zhou , Sicheng Zhao

I propose a novel dual-attention model(DAM) for aspect-level sentiment classification. Many methods have been proposed, such as support vector machines for artificial design features, long short-term memory networks based on attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mengfei Ye