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Multimodal sentiment analysis is a key technology in the fields of human-computer interaction and affective computing. Accurately recognizing human emotional states is crucial for facilitating smooth communication between humans and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wangyuan Zhu , Jun Yu

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to infer emotional states by effectively integrating textual, acoustic, and visual modalities. Despite notable progress, existing multimodal fusion methods often neglect modality-specific structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiangfeng Sun , Sihao He , Zhonghong Ou , Meina Song

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

This paper presents a novel approach to processing multimodal data for dynamic emotion recognition, named as the Multimodal Masked Autoencoder for Dynamic Emotion Recognition (MultiMAE-DER). The MultiMAE-DER leverages the closely correlated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Peihao Xiang , Chaohao Lin , Kaida Wu , Ou Bai

Since Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) can be applied to public opinion monitoring, intelligent dialogue robots, and other fields, it has received extensive research attention in recent years. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tao Meng , Fuchen Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Hongen Shao , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

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

The prevalent approach in speech emotion recognition (SER) involves integrating both audio and textual information to comprehensively identify the speaker's emotion, with the text generally obtained through automatic speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiajun He , Xiaohan Shi , Xingfeng Li , Tomoki Toda

Accurate recognition of human emotions is a crucial challenge in affective computing and human-robot interaction (HRI). Emotional states play a vital role in shaping behaviors, decisions, and social interactions. However, emotional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Youssef Mohamed , Severin Lemaignan , Arzu Guneysu , Patric Jensfelt , Christian Smith

In this paper, we present Modality-Importance-Guided Reasoning (MIGR), a framework designed to improve the reliability of reasoning-based multimodal emotion understanding in multimodal large language models. Although existing methods have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hyeongseop Rha , Jeong Hun Yeo , Junil Won , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

Emotional Mimicry Intensity (EMI) estimation plays a pivotal role in understanding human social behavior and advancing human-computer interaction. The core challenges lie in dynamic correlation modeling and robust fusion of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jun Yu , Lingsi Zhu , Yanjun Chi , Yunxiang Zhang , Yang Zheng , Yongqi Wang , Xilong Lu

This paper proposes a multimodal emotion recognition system based on hybrid fusion that classifies the emotions depicted by speech utterances and corresponding images into discrete classes. A new interpretability technique has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Puneet Kumar , Sarthak Malik , Balasubramanian Raman

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is a fundamental complex research problem due to the uncertainty of human emotional expression and the heterogeneity gap between different modalities. Audio and text modalities are particularly important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Jiachen Luo , Huy Phan , Joshua Reiss

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves target images using a multi-modal query that combines a reference image with text describing desired modifications. The primary challenge is effectively fusing this visual and textual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Chaoyang Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Long Teng , Zijun Li , Shichao Kan

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) seeks to integrate various modalities to predict emotional states accurately. However, most current research focuses solely on the fusion of audio and text features, overlooking the valuable information…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuechun Shao , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Expression recognition in in-the-wild video data remains challenging due to substantial variations in facial appearance, background conditions, audio noise, and the inherently dynamic nature of human affect. Relying on a single modality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Junhyeong Byeon , Jeongyeol Kim , Sejoon Lim

Emotion represents an essential aspect of human speech that is manifested in speech prosody. Speech, visual, and textual cues are complementary in human communication. In this paper, we study a hybrid fusion method, referred to as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Zexu Pan , Zhaojie Luo , Jichen Yang , Haizhou Li

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (mERC) is an active research topic in natural language processing (NLP), which aims to predict human's emotional states in communications of multiple modalities, e,g., natural language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jinglin Wang , Fang Ma , Yazhou Zhang , Dawei Song

As humans, we experience the world with all our senses or modalities (sound, sight, touch, smell, and taste). We use these modalities, particularly sight and touch, to convey and interpret specific meanings. Multimodal expressions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Anirudh Sundar , Larry Heck

This paper explores the development of a multimodal sentiment analysis model that integrates text, audio, and visual data to enhance sentiment classification. The goal is to improve emotion detection by capturing the complex interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Hui Lee , Singh Suniljit , Yong Siang Ong

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays an influential role in the field of human-computer interaction and conversational robotics since it can motivate machines to provide empathetic services. Multimodal data modeling is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Guoqing Lv , Zhigang Zeng