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Multimodal sentiment analysis, a pivotal task in affective computing, seeks to understand human emotions by integrating cues from language, audio, and visual signals. While many recent approaches leverage complex attention mechanisms and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Nischal Mandal , Yang Li

Emotions are multifaceted phenomena that affect our behaviour, perception, and cognition. Increasing evidence indicates that induction mechanisms play a crucial role in triggering emotions by simulating the sensations required for an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Rukshani Somarathna , Tomasz Bednarz , Gelareh Mohammadi

Emotions and their evolution play a central role in creating a captivating story. In this paper, we present the first study on modeling the emotional trajectory of the protagonist in neural storytelling. We design methods that generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Faeze Brahman , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Existing image emotion editing methods struggle to disentangle emotional cues from latent content representations, often yielding weak emotional expression and distorted visual structures. To bridge this gap, we propose EmoKGEdit, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jing Zhang , Bingjie Fan

Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition plays a crucial role in applications such as human-computer interaction and social media analytics. However, current approaches struggle with cue-level perception and reasoning due to two main…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hanwen Zhang , Yao Liu , Peiyuan Jiang , Lang Junjie , Xie Jun , Yihui He , Yajiao Deng , Siyu Du , Qiao Liu

Visual Instruction Tuning represents a novel learning paradigm involving the fine-tuning of pre-trained language models using task-specific instructions. This paradigm shows promising zero-shot results in various natural language processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hongxia Xie , Chu-Jun Peng , Yu-Wen Tseng , Hung-Jen Chen , Chan-Feng Hsu , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

With the rapid advancement of diffusion models, text-to-image generation has achieved significant progress in image resolution, detail fidelity, and semantic alignment, particularly with models like Stable Diffusion 3.5, Stable Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Cheng Zhang , Hongxia xie , Bin Wen , Songhan Zuo , Ruoxuan Zhang , Wen-huang Cheng

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

Despite the rapid progress in image generation, emotional image editing remains under-explored. The semantics, context, and structure of an image can evoke emotional responses, making emotional image editing techniques valuable for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Qing Lin , Jingfeng Zhang , Yew-Soon Ong , Mengmi Zhang

Emotion recognition technology is crucial in providing a personalized user experience. It is especially important in virtual reality(VR) to assess the user's emotions to enhance their sense of immersion. We propose an emotion recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jaehyun Nam , Hyesun Chung , Young ah Seong , Honggu Lee

Sentiment and emotion understanding are essential to applications such as human-computer interaction and depression detection. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate robust general capabilities, they face considerable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ao Li , Longwei Xu , Chen Ling , Jinghui Zhang , Pengwei Wang

Generating instructional images of human daily actions from an egocentric viewpoint serves as a key step towards efficient skill transfer. In this paper, we introduce a novel problem -- egocentric action frame generation. The goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Bolin Lai , Xiaoliang Dai , Lawrence Chen , Guan Pang , James M. Rehg , Miao Liu

Virtual reality has been effectively used for eliciting emotions, yet most research focuses on the intensity of affective responses rather than on how interaction influences those experiences. To address this gap, we advance a validated VR…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zheyuan Kuang , Tinghui Li , Weiwei Jiang , Sven Mayer , Flora Salim , Benjamin Tag , Anusha Withana , Zhanna Sarsenbayeva

Emotion recognition is significantly enhanced by integrating multimodal biosignals and IMU data from multiple domains. In this paper, we introduce a novel multi-scale attention-based LSTM architecture, combined with Squeeze-and-Excitation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Pubudu L. Indrasiri , Bipasha Kashyap , Chandima Kolambahewage , Bahareh Nakisa , Kiran Ijaz , Pubudu N. Pathirana

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

Collecting large-scale egocentric video datasets with dense spatial and temporal annotations is costly, slow, and often constrained by environmental biases, privacy constraints, and limited coverage of interaction patterns. While synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Rosario Leonardi , Francesco Ragusa , Daniele Materia , Alessandro Passanisi , James Fort , Jakob Engel , Giovanni Maria Farinella

EEG is a non-invasive, safe, and low-risk method to record electrophysiological signals inside the brain. Especially with recent technology developments like dry electrodes, consumer-grade EEG devices, and rapid advances in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tri Duc Ly , Gia H. Ngo

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

Emotions are an integral part of being human, and experiencing a range of emotions is what makes life rich and vibrant. From basic emotions like anger, fear, happiness, and sadness to more complex ones like excitement and grief, emotions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Syed Ali Asif , Philip Gable , Chien-Chung Shen , Yan-Ming Chiou

Emotion recognition (ER) technology is an integral part for developing innovative applications such as drowsiness detection and health monitoring that plays a pivotal role in contemporary society. This study delves into ER using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Haseeb ur Rahman Abbasi , Zeeshan Rashid , Muhammad Majid , Syed Muhammad Anwar