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Facial expression recognition (FER) is an important research topic in emotional artificial intelligence. In recent decades, researchers have made remarkable progress. However, current FER paradigms face challenges in generalization, lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Bohao Xing , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Kaishen Yuan , Qilang Ye , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang , Heikki Kälviäinen

Affective judgment in real interaction is rarely a purely local prediction problem. Emotional meaning often depends on prior trajectory, accumulated context, and multimodal evidence that may be weak, noisy, or incomplete at the current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Deliang Wen , Ke Sun , Yu Wang

Multimodal emotion analysis is shifting from static classification to generative reasoning. Beyond simple label prediction, robust affective reasoning must synthesize fine-grained signals such as facial micro-expressions and prosodic which…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhixian Zhao , Wenjie Tian , Lei Xie

Modern affective computing systems rely heavily on datasets with human-annotated emotion labels, for training and evaluation. However, human annotations are expensive to obtain, sensitive to study design, and difficult to quality control,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Minxue Niu , Yara El-Tawil , Amrit Romana , Emily Mower Provost

In today's world, emotional support is increasingly essential, yet it remains challenging for both those seeking help and those offering it. Multimodal approaches to emotional support show great promise by integrating diverse data sources…

The recent advancements introduced by Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support complex, real world tasks, pushing research outside the text boundaries towards multi modal contexts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Federico Toschi , Nicolò Brunello , Andrea Sassella , Vincenzo Scotti , Mark James Carman

Traditional image annotation tasks rely heavily on human effort for object selection and label assignment, making the process time-consuming and prone to decreased efficiency as annotators experience fatigue after extensive work. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 He Zhang , Xinyi Fu , John M. Carroll

One of the most significant challenges in Music Emotion Recognition (MER) comes from the fact that emotion labels can be heterogeneous across datasets with regard to the emotion representation, including categorical (e.g., happy, sad)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jaeyong Kang , Dorien Herremans

Music Emotion Recogniser (MER) research faces challenges due to limited high-quality annotated datasets and difficulties in addressing cross-track feature drift. This work presents two primary contributions to address these issues.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Qilin Li , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) extracts emotions from multimodal data, including visual, speech, and text inputs, playing a key role in human-computer interaction. Attention-based fusion methods dominate MER research, achieving strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiajun He , Jinyi Mi , Tomoki Toda

The study of human emotions, traditionally a cornerstone in fields like psychology and neuroscience, has been profoundly impacted by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). Multiple channels, such as speech (voice) and facial…

Symbolic Music Emotion Recognition(SMER) is to predict music emotion from symbolic data, such as MIDI and MusicXML. Previous work mainly focused on learning better representation via (mask) language model pre-training but ignored the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jibao Qiu , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for enabling emotionally intelligent systems that perceive and respond to human emotions. However, existing methods suffer from limited cross-modal interaction and imbalanced contributions…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zeyu Deng , Yanhui Lu , Jiashu Liao , Shuang Wu , Chongfeng Wei

Automatic emotion recognition is an active research topic with wide range of applications. Due to the high manual annotation cost and inevitable label ambiguity, the development of emotion recognition dataset is limited in both scale and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jingjun Liang , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin

Multimodal emotion recognition study is hindered by the lack of labelled corpora in terms of scale and diversity, due to the high annotation cost and label ambiguity. In this paper, we propose a pre-training model \textbf{MEmoBERT} for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jinming Zhao , Ruichen Li , Qin Jin , Xinchao Wang , Haizhou Li

Emotion Recognition (ER) is the process of analyzing and identifying human emotions from sensing data. Currently, the field heavily relies on facial expression recognition (FER) because visual channel conveys rich emotional cues. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kejun Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Lin Wei , Chang Tang , Yibing Zhan , Zijing Chen , Zhe Chen

Multi-modal Event Reasoning (MMER) endeavors to endow machines with the ability to comprehend intricate event relations across diverse data modalities. MMER is fundamental and underlies a wide broad of applications. Despite extensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zhengwei Tao , Zhi Jin , Junqiang Huang , Xiancai Chen , Xiaoying Bai , Haiyan Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Chongyang Tao

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) in practical scenarios is significantly challenged by the presence of missing or incomplete data across different modalities. To overcome these challenges, researchers have aimed to simulate incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Qi Fan , Haolin Zuo , Rui Liu , Zheng Lian , Guanglai Gao

Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) systems typically outperform unimodal systems by leveraging the inter- and intra-modal relationships between, e.g., visual, textual, physiological, and auditory modalities. This paper proposes an MMER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Paul Waligora , Haseeb Aslam , Osama Zeeshan , Soufiane Belharbi , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Marco Pedersoli , Simon Bacon , Eric Granger

In affective computing, datasets often contain multiple annotations from different annotators, which may lack full agreement. Typically, these annotations are merged into a single gold standard label, potentially losing valuable inter-rater…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ibrahim Shoer , Engin Erzin