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In the domain of human-computer interaction, accurately recognizing and interpreting human emotions is crucial yet challenging due to the complexity and subtlety of emotional expressions. This study explores the potential for detecting a…

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In this work, we explore the emotional reactions that real-world images tend to induce by using natural language as the medium to express the rationale behind an affective response to a given visual stimulus. To embark on this journey, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Panos Achlioptas , Maks Ovsjanikov , Leonidas Guibas , Sergey Tulyakov

The human brain constructs emotional percepts not by processing facial expressions in isolation, but through a dynamic, hierarchical integration of sensory input with semantic and contextual knowledge. However, existing vision-based dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Huanzhen Wang , Ziheng Zhou , Zeng Tao , Aoxing Li , Yingkai Zhao , Yuxuan Lin , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

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

An image is a very effective tool for conveying emotions. Many researchers have investigated in computing the image emotions by using various features extracted from images. In this paper, we focus on two high level features, the object and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Hye-Rin Kim , Yeong-Seok Kim , Seon Joo Kim , In-Kwon Lee

While modern diffusion models excel at generating high-quality and diverse images, they still struggle with high-fidelity compositional and multimodal control, particularly when users simultaneously specify text prompts, subject references,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yusuf Dalva , Guocheng Gordon Qian , Maya Goldenberg , Tsai-Shien Chen , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Pinar Yanardag , Kuan-Chieh Jackson Wang

Human emotions unfold over time, and more affective computing research has to prioritize capturing this crucial component of real-world affect. Modeling dynamic emotional stimuli requires solving the twin challenges of time-series modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Desmond C. Ong , Zhengxuan Wu , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Marianne Reddan , Isabella Kahhale , Alison Mattek , Jamil Zaki

Emotions play a key role in human communication and public presentations. Human emotions are usually expressed through multiple modalities. Therefore, exploring multimodal emotions and their coherence is of great value for understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haipeng Zeng , Xingbo Wang , Aoyu Wu , Yong Wang , Quan Li , Alex Endert , Huamin Qu

Human emotion is expressed in many communication modalities and media formats and so their computational study is equally diversified into natural language processing, audio signal analysis, computer vision, etc. Similarly, the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Recent research shows that emotions can enhance users' cognition and influence information communication. While research on visual emotion analysis is extensive, limited work has been done on helping users generate emotionally rich image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shengqi Dang , Yi He , Long Ling , Ziqing Qian , Nanxuan Zhao , Nan Cao

Convolutional Neural Networks are particularly suited for image analysis tasks, such as Image Classification, Object Recognition or Image Segmentation. Like all Artificial Neural Networks, however, they are "black box" models, and suffer…

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Generating higher-resolution human-centric scenes with details and controls remains a challenge for existing text-to-image diffusion models. This challenge stems from limited training image size, text encoder capacity (limited tokens), and…

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The process of human affect understanding involves the ability to infer person specific emotional states from various sources including images, speech, and language. Affect perception from images has predominantly focused on expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Digbalay Bose , Rajat Hebbar , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

Image generation based on diffusion models has demonstrated impressive capability, motivating exploration into diverse and specialized applications. Owing to the importance of emotion in advertising, emotion-oriented image generation has…

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We present TeSMo, a method for text-controlled scene-aware motion generation based on denoising diffusion models. Previous text-to-motion methods focus on characters in isolation without considering scenes due to the limited availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Hongwei Yi , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black , Xue Bin Peng , Davis Rempe

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Speech-driven 3D facial animation seeks to produce lifelike facial expressions that are synchronized with the speech content and its emotional nuances, finding applications in various multimedia fields. However, previous methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yixuan Zhang , Qing Chang , Yuxi Wang , Guang Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

Visual emotion analysis holds significant research value in both computer vision and psychology. However, existing methods for visual emotion analysis suffer from limited generalizability due to the ambiguity of emotion perception and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Chuang Chen , Xiao Sun , Zhi Liu

This paper presents Emosaic, a tool for visualizing the emotional tone of text documents, considering multiple dimensions of emotion and varying levels of semantic granularity. Emosaic is grounded in psychological research on the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Philipp Geuder , Marie Claire Leidinger , Martin von Lupin , Marian Dörk , Tobias Schröder

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…

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