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Emotional voice conversion (EVC) traditionally targets the transformation of spoken utterances from one emotional state to another, with previous research mainly focusing on discrete emotion categories. This paper departs from the norm by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Kun Zhou , Berrak Sisman , Carlos Busso , Bin Ma , Haizhou Li

Affective Computing (AC) integrates computer science, psychology, and cognitive science to enable machines to recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions across domains such as social media, finance, healthcare, and education. AC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yiqun Zhang , Xiaocui Yang , Xingle Xu , Zeran Gao , Yijie Huang , Shiyi Mu , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Kaisong Song , Ge Yu

An image conveys meaning through both its visual content and emotional tone, jointly shaping human perception. We introduce Controllable Emotional Image Content Generation (C-EICG), which aims to generate images that remain faithful to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jingyuan Yang , Weibin Luo , Hui Huang

Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) aims to recognize and interpret human emotions by integrating information from diverse modalities such as text, video, and audio. Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Miaosen Luo , Jiesen Long , Zequn Li , Yunying Yang , Yuncheng Jiang , Sijie Mai

Conversational emotion recognition (CER) is an important research topic in human-computer interactions. {Although recent advancements in transformer-based cross-modal fusion methods have shown promise in CER tasks, they tend to overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yuntao Shou , Huan Liu , Xiangyong Cao , Deyu Meng , Bo Dong

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has gained tremendous attention over the past year. Previous studies have shown the astonishing performance of LLMs not only in other tasks but also in emotion recognition in terms of accuracy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Liyizhe Peng , Zixing Zhang , Tao Pang , Jing Han , Huan Zhao , Hao Chen , Björn W. Schuller

In the literature, existing human-centric emotional motion generation methods primarily focus on boosting performance within a single scale-fixed dataset, largely neglecting the flexible and scale-increasing motion scenarios (e.g., sports,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiawen Wang , Jingjing Wang Tianyang Chen , Min Zhang , Guodong Zhou

Sentiment analysis and emotion detection are important research topics in natural language processing (NLP) and benefit many downstream tasks. With the widespread application of LLMs, researchers have started exploring the application of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhiwei Liu , Kailai Yang , Tianlin Zhang , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Emotion estimation in images is a challenging task, typically using computer vision methods to directly estimate people's emotions using face, body pose and contextual cues. In this paper, we explore whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Vera Yang , Archita Srivastava , Yasaman Etesam , Chuxuan Zhang , Angelica Lim

Large Language Models primarily operate through text-based inputs and outputs, yet human emotion is communicated through both verbal and non-verbal cues, including facial expressions. While Vision-Language Models analyze facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Vaibhav Mehra , Guy Laban , Hatice Gunes

This paper introduces a multi-label visual emotion analysis benchmark dataset for comprehensively evaluating the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to predict the emotions evoked by images. Recent user studies report an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tianwei Chen , Takuya Furusawa , Yuki Hirakawa , Ryotaro Shimizu , Mo Fan , Takashi Wada

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

This paper develops small vision language models to understand visual art, which, given an art work, aims to identify its emotion category and explain this prediction with natural language. While small models are computationally efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jing Zhang , Liang Zheng , Meng Wang , Dan Guo

Emotional and cognitive factors are essential for understanding mental health disorders. However, existing methods often treat multi-modal data as classification tasks, limiting interpretability especially for emotion and cognition.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhiyuan Zhou , Yanrong Guo , Shijie Hao

Purpose: Emotion is a fundamental component of human communication, shaping understanding, trust, and engagement across domains such as education, healthcare, and mental health. While large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yurui Dong , Luozhijie Jin , Yao Yang , Bingjie Lu , Jiaxi Yang , Zhi Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved unprecedented success in several objective multimodal reasoning tasks. However, to further enhance their capabilities of empathetic and effective communication with humans, improving how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sree Bhattacharyya , James Z. Wang

Affective Image Editing (AIE) aims to modify visual content to evoke targeted emotions. Although current approaches achieve impressive editing quality, they often overlook inference efficiency, which limits their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xinyi Yin , Yiduo Wang , Tingqi Hu , Meicong Si , Yunyun Shi , Shi Chen , Hao Wang , Junxiao Xue , Xuecheng Wu

Despite great advances, achieving high-fidelity emotional voice conversion (EVC) with flexible and interpretable control remains challenging. This paper introduces ClapFM-EVC, a novel EVC framework capable of generating high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yu Pan , Yanni Hu , Yuguang Yang , Jixun Yao , Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

The furnishing of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has led to the emergence of numerous benchmark studies, particularly those evaluating their perception and understanding capabilities. Among these, understanding image-evoked…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Lancheng Gao , Ziheng Jia , Yunhao Zeng , Wei Sun , Yiming Zhang , Wei Zhou , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

We present an Audio-Visual Language Model (AVLM) for expressive speech generation by integrating full-face visual cues into a pre-trained expressive speech model. We explore multiple visual encoders and multimodal fusion strategies during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Weiting Tan , Jiachen Lian , Hirofumi Inaguma , Paden Tomasello , Philipp Koehn , Xutai Ma