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Traditional pet emotion recognition from vocalizations, based on discrete classification, struggles with ambiguity and capturing intensity variations. We propose a continuous Valence-Arousal (VA) model that represents emotions in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junyao Huang , Rumin Situ

Affective computing is a field of study that focuses on developing systems and technologies that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions. Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), in particular, has got a lot of attention from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Varun Sharma

Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Lucas Ueda , João Lima , Leonardo Marques , Paula Costa

Speech is a natural means of conveying emotions, making it an effective method for understanding and representing human feelings. Reliable speech emotion recognition (SER) is central to applications in human-computer interaction,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Faria Ahmed , Rafi Hassan Chowdhury , Fatema Tuz Zohora Moon , Sabbir Ahmed

Recent studies have explored the use of pre-trained embeddings for speech emotion recognition (SER), achieving comparable performance to conventional methods that rely on low-level knowledge-inspired acoustic features. These embeddings are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tiantian Feng , Rajat Hebbar , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has garnered increasing attention due to its wide range of applications in various fields, including human-machine interaction, virtual assistants, and mental health assistance. However, existing SER methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dongyuan Li , Ying Zhang , Yusong Wang , Funakoshi Kataro , Manabu Okumura

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a crucial role in advancing human-computer interaction and speech processing capabilities. We introduce a novel deep-learning architecture designed specifically for the functional data model known as…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Matthieu Saumard , Abir El Haj , Thibault Napoleon

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) involves analyzing vocal expressions to determine the emotional state of speakers, where the comprehensive and thorough utilization of audio information is paramount. Therefore, we propose a novel approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Zixiang Wan , Ziyue Qiu , Yiyang Liu , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Speech emotion recognition (SER) has been a challenging problem in spoken language processing research, because it is unclear how human emotions are connected to various components of sounds such as pitch, loudness, and energy. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tai Vu

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Feng Li , Jiusong Luo , Wanjun Xia

In recent years, speech emotion recognition (SER) has been used in wide ranging applications, from healthcare to the commercial sector. In addition to signal processing approaches, methods for SER now also use deep learning techniques which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Anne Katrine Pagsberg , Line H. Clemmensen

Physiological signals are often corrupted by motion artifacts, baseline drift, and other low-SNR disturbances, which pose significant challenges for analysis. Additionally, these signals exhibit strong non-stationarity, with sharp peaks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yanlong Chen , Mattia Orlandi , Pierangelo Maria Rapa , Simone Benatti , Luca Benini , Yawei Li

Speech emotion recognition (SER) systems often struggle in real-world environments, where ambient noise severely degrades their performance. This paper explores a novel approach that exploits prior knowledge of testing environments to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seong-Gyun Leem , Daniel Fulford , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , David Gard , Carlos Busso

Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains fragile in real-world conditions because emotional cues are subtle, speaker-dependent, and easily confounded by recording variability, while high-performing deep models typically rely on large and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Mahad Mohtashim , Nouhaila Innan , Muhammad Shafique

This paper presents a paradigm that adapts general large-scale pretrained models (PTMs) to speech emotion recognition task. Although PTMs shed new light on artificial general intelligence, they are constructed with general tasks in mind,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Weidong Chen , Xiaofen Xing , Peihao Chen , Xiangmin Xu

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is essential for enhancing human-computer interaction in speech-based applications. Despite improvements in specific emotional datasets, there is still a research gap in SER's capability to generalize across…

Emotion recognition and touch gesture decoding are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction (HRI), especially in social environments where emotional cues and tactile perception play important roles. However, many humanoid robots, such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuanbo Hou , Qiaoqiao Ren , Wenwu Wang , Dick Botteldooren

Equipping robotic faces with singing capabilities is crucial for empathetic Human-Robot Interaction. However, existing robotic face driving research primarily focuses on conversations or mimicking static expressions, struggling to meet the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhuoxiong Xu , Xuanchen Li , Yuhao Cheng , Fei Xu , Yichao Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has become a growing focus of research in human-computer interaction. Spatiotemporal features play a crucial role in SER, yet current research lacks comprehensive spatiotemporal feature learning. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mengbo Li , Yuanzhong Zheng , Dichucheng Li , Yulun Wu , Yaoxuan Wang , Haojun Fei