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Machine learning has been used to recognize emotions in faces, typically by looking for 8 different emotional states (neutral, happy, sad, surprise, fear, disgust, anger and contempt). We consider two approaches: feature recognition based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Siddartha Dalal , Sierra Vo , Michael Lesk , Wesley Yuan

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predominantly rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, which fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Licai Sun , Haoyu Chen , Lan Chen , Hao Gu , Zhuofan Wen , Shun Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Hailiang Yao , Bin Liu , Rui Liu , Shan Liang , Ya Li , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao

Emotions are subjective constructs. Recent end-to-end speech emotion recognition systems are typically agnostic to the subjective nature of emotions, despite their state-of-the-art performance. In this work, we introduce an end-to-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Navin Raj Prabhu , Guillaume Carbajal , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Most of the existing deep neural nets on automatic facial expression recognition focus on a set of predefined emotion classes, where the amount of training data has the biggest impact on performance. However, in the standard setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Anca-Nicoleta Ciubotaru , Arnout Devos , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Maria Gabrani

Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anders Rolighed Larsen , Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Paula Petcu , Line Clemmensen

Facial expression recognition has been an active research area over the past few decades, and it is still challenging due to the high intra-class variation. Traditional approaches for this problem rely on hand-crafted features such as SIFT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

Emotion analysis in texts suffers from two major limitations: annotated gold-standard corpora are mostly small and homogeneous, and emotion identification is often simplified as a sentence-level classification problem. To address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Gustave Cortal , Alain Finkel , Patrick Paroubek , Lina Ye

Canonical emotions, such as happy, sad, and fearful, are easy to understand and annotate. However, emotions are often compound, e.g. happily surprised, and can be mapped to the action units (AUs) used for expressing emotions, and trivially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Reni Paskaleva , Mykyta Holubakha , Andela Ilic , Saman Motamed , Luc Van Gool , Danda Paudel

As we exceed upon the procedures for modelling the different aspects of behaviour, expression recognition has become a key field of research in Human Computer Interactions. Expression recognition in the wild is a very interesting problem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Sowmya Rasipuram , Junaid Hamid Bhat , Anutosh Maitra

Recently deep generative models have achieved impressive results in the field of automated facial expression editing. However, the approaches presented so far presume a discrete representation of human emotions and are therefore limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Alexandra Lindt , Pablo Barros , Henrique Siqueira , Stefan Wermter

Current facial emotion recognition systems are predominately trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories or abstract dimensional values. This constrained form of supervision hinders generalization and applicability, as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Licai Sun , Xingxun Jiang , Haoyu Chen , Yante Li , Zheng Lian , Biu Liu , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng , Jukka M. Leppänen , Guoying Zhao

When recognizing emotions from speech, we encounter two common problems: how to optimally capture emotion-relevant information from the speech signal and how to best quantify or categorize the noisy subjective emotion labels.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Sofoklis Kakouros , Themos Stafylakis , Ladislav Mosner , Lukas Burget

We introduce a novel multimodal emotion recognition dataset that enhances the precision of Valence-Arousal Model while accounting for individual differences. This dataset includes electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (ECG), and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xin Huang , Shiyao Zhu , Ziyu Wang , Yaping He , Hao Jin , Zhengkui Liu

Emotion recognition using EEG signals is an emerging area of research due to its broad applicability in BCI. Emotional feelings are hard to stimulate in the lab. Emotions do not last long, yet they need enough context to be perceived and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Mohammad Asif , Sudhakar Mishra , Majithia Tejas Vinodbhai , Uma Shanker Tiwary

Emotions are integral to human social interactions, with diverse responses elicited by various situational contexts. Particularly, the prevalence of negative emotional states has been correlated with negative outcomes for mental health,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Abu Bakar Siddiqur Rahman , Hoang-Thang Ta , Lotfollah Najjar , Azad Azadmanesh , Ali Saffet Gönül

Appraisal theories explain how the cognitive evaluation of an event leads to a particular emotion. In contrast to theories of basic emotions or affect (valence/arousal), this theory has not received a lot of attention in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Jan Hofmann , Enrica Troiano , Roman Klinger

Facial expression analysis has long been an active research area of computer vision. Traditional methods mainly analyse images for prototypical discrete emotions; as a result, they do not provide an accurate depiction of the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Calvin Chen , Stefan Winkler

In the past years, sentiment analysis has increasingly shifted attention to representational frameworks more expressive than semantic polarity (being positive, negative or neutral). However, these richer formats (like Basic Emotions or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

In automatic emotion recognition (AER), labels assigned by different human annotators to the same utterance are often inconsistent due to the inherent complexity of emotion and the subjectivity of perception. Though deterministic labels…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Telling stories is an integral part of human communication which can evoke emotions and influence the affective states of the audience. Automatically modeling emotional trajectories in stories has thus attracted considerable scholarly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Lukas Christ , Shahin Amiriparian , Manuel Milling , Ilhan Aslan , Björn W. Schuller