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In recent years, emotion recognition plays a critical role in applications such as human-computer interaction, mental health monitoring, and sentiment analysis. While datasets for emotion analysis in languages such as English have…

Unlike spoken languages where the use of prosodic features to convey emotion is well studied, indicators of emotion in sign language remain poorly understood, creating communication barriers in critical settings. Sign languages present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Phoebe Chua , Cathy Mengying Fang , Takehiko Ohkawa , Raja Kushalnagar , Suranga Nanayakkara , Pattie Maes

Automatic emotion recognition is a challenging task. In this paper, we present our effort for the audio-video based sub-challenge of the Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) 2018 challenge, which requires participants to assign a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zheng Lian , Ya Li , Jianhua Tao , Jian Huang

Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) aims at predicting people's emotional responses to visual stimuli. This is a promising, yet challenging, task in affective computing, which has drawn increasing attention in recent years. Most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Jingyuan Yang , Qirui Huang , Tingting Ding , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

The need for automatic and high-quality emotion annotation is paramount in applications such as continuous emotion recognition and video highlight detection, yet achieving this through manual human annotations is challenging. Inspired by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Guandong Pan , Zhaobang Wu , Yaqian Yang , Xin Wang , Longzhao Liu , Zhiming Zheng , Shaoting Tang

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

Humans use a host of signals to infer the emotional state of others. In general, computer systems that leverage signals from multiple modalities will be more robust and accurate in the same task. We present a multimodal affect and context…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Daniel McDuff , Kael Rowan , Piali Choudhury , Jessica Wolk , ThuVan Pham , Mary Czerwinski

Emotion is an inherently subjective psychophysiological human-state and to produce an agreed-upon representation (gold standard) for continuous emotion requires a time-consuming and costly training procedure of multiple human annotators.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Alice Baird , Lukas Stappen , Lukas Christ , Lea Schumann , Eva-Maria Meßner , Björn W. Schuller

Processing human affective behavior is important for developing intelligent agents that interact with humans in complex interaction scenarios. A large number of current approaches that address this problem focus on classifying emotion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Pablo Barros , Nikhil Churamani , Angelica Lim , Stefan Wermter

Emotion recognition in conversations is challenging due to the multi-modal nature of the emotion expression. We propose a hierarchical cross-attention model (HCAM) approach to multi-modal emotion recognition using a combination of recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Engagement, which links to attentional, emotional, and cognitive dimensions, plays an important role in learning. In online and video-based learning environments, learners often need to regulate their own interactions with instructional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zikang Leng , Edan Eyal , Yingtian Shi , Jiaman He , Yaqi Liu , Thomas Plötz

This paper aims to demonstrate the importance and feasibility of fusing multimodal information for emotion recognition. It introduces a multimodal framework for emotion understanding by fusing the information from visual facial features and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Puneet Kumar , Xiaobai Li

Multimodal emotion recognition is a challenging research area that aims to fuse different modalities to predict human emotion. However, most existing models that are based on attention mechanisms have difficulty in learning emotionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zihan Zhao , Yu Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Multimodal data analysis and validation based on streams from state-of-the-art sensor technology such as eye-tracking or emotion recognition using the Facial Action Coding System (FACTs) with deep learning allows educational researchers to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-04 C. Kosel , S. Michel , T. Seidel , M. Foerster

In our everyday lives and social interactions we often try to perceive the emotional states of people. There has been a lot of research in providing machines with a similar capacity of recognizing emotions. From a computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Ronak Kosti , Jose M. Alvarez , Adria Recasens , Agata Lapedriza

In this paper, we consider the problem of multimodal data analysis with a use case of audiovisual emotion recognition. We propose an architecture capable of learning from raw data and describe three variants of it with distinct modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Kateryna Chumachenko , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

We present MDEAW, a multimodal database consisting of Electrodermal Activity (EDA) and Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals recorded during the exams for the course taught by the teacher at Eurecat Academy, Sabadell, Barcelona in order to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Arijit Nandi , Fatos Xhafa , Laia Subirats , Santi Fort

Multimodal emotion recognition aims to integrate text, audio, and video sources to understand human affective states. Although multimodal large language models excel at multimodal reasoning, they typically treat emotion categories as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zeheng Wang , Bo Zhao , Yijie Zhu , Zhishu Liu , Hui Ma , Ruixin Zhang , Shouhong Ding , Qianyu Xie , Zitong Yu

The emotional state of a speaker can be influenced by many different factors in dialogues, such as dialogue scene, dialogue topic, and interlocutor stimulus. The currently available data resources to support such multimodal affective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jinming Zhao , Tenggan Zhang , Jingwen Hu , Yuchen Liu , Qin Jin , Xinchao Wang , Haizhou Li