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Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC), the task of identifying the emotion label for each utterance in a conversation, is vital for developing empathetic machines. Current MLLM-based MERC studies focus mainly on capturing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yumeng Fu , Junjie Wu , Zhongjie Wang , Meishan Zhang , Yulin Wu , Bingquan Liu

Most existing emotion analysis emphasizes which emotion arises (e.g., happy, sad, angry) but neglects the deeper why. We propose Emotion Interpretation (EI), focusing on causal factors-whether explicit (e.g., observable objects,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuxiang Lin , Jingdong Sun , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jue Wang , Haomin Liang , Zebang Cheng , Yifei Dong , Jun-Yan He , Xiaojiang Peng , Xian-Sheng Hua

Accurate emotion perception is crucial for various applications, including human-computer interaction, education, and counseling. However, traditional single-modality approaches often fail to capture the complexity of real-world emotional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zebang Cheng , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Yan He , Jingdong Sun , Kai Wang , Yuxiang Lin , Zheng Lian , Xiaojiang Peng , Alexander Hauptmann

In this paper, we investigate the emotion recognition ability of the pre-training language model, namely BERT. By the nature of the framework of BERT, a two-sentence structure, we adapt BERT to continues dialogue emotion prediction tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yen-Hao Huang , Ssu-Rui Lee , Mau-Yun Ma , Yi-Hsin Chen , Ya-Wen Yu , Yi-Shin Chen

Affect recognition, encompassing emotions, moods, and feelings, plays a pivotal role in human communication. In the realm of conversational artificial intelligence, the ability to discern and respond to human affective cues is a critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shutong Feng , Guangzhi Sun , Nurul Lubis , Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Milica Gašić

Memory systems address the challenge of context loss in Large Language Model during prolonged interactions. However, compared to human cognition, the efficacy of these systems in processing emotion-related information remains inconclusive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Peng Liu , Zhen Tao , Jihao Zhao , Ding Chen , Yansong Zhang , Cuiping Li , Zhiyu Li , Hong Chen

Conventional Multi-modal multi-label emotion recognition (MMER) assumes complete access to visual, textual, and acoustic modalities. However, real-world multi-party settings often violate this assumption, as non-speakers frequently lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xudong Yang , Yizhang Zhu , Hanfeng Liu , Zeyi Wen , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Emotional concepts play a huge role in our daily life since they take part into many cognitive processes: from the perception of the environment around us to different learning processes and natural communication. Social robots need to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Pablo Barros , Emilia Barakova , Stefan Wermter

Descriptive Multimodal Emotion Recognition (DMER) has garnered increasing research attention. Unlike traditional discriminative paradigms that rely on predefined emotion taxonomies, DMER aims to describe human emotional state using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zheng Lian , Licai Sun , Lan Chen , Haoyu Chen , Zebang Cheng , Fan Zhang , Ziyu Jia , Ziyang Ma , Fei Ma , Xiaojiang Peng , Jianhua Tao

A prevalent shortfall among current empathic AI systems is their inability to recognize when verbal expressions may not fully reflect underlying emotional states. This is because the existing datasets, used for the training of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sharjeel Tahir , Judith Johnson , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , Syed Afaq Ali Shah

In this paper, we propose MMER, a novel Multimodal Multi-task learning approach for Speech Emotion Recognition. MMER leverages a novel multimodal network based on early-fusion and cross-modal self-attention between text and acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , S Ramaneswaran , Harshvardhan Srivastava , Dinesh Manocha

Affective Behavior Analysis aims to facilitate technology emotionally smart, creating a world where devices can understand and react to our emotions as humans do. To comprehensively evaluate the authenticity and applicability of emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wei Zhang , Feng Qiu , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Heming Du , Tiancheng Guo , Xin Yu

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Human emotion recognition is an active research area in artificial intelligence and has made substantial progress over the past few years. Many recent works mainly focus on facial regions to infer human affection, while the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nhat Le , Khanh Nguyen , Anh Nguyen , Bac Le

With the growing integration of human-computer interaction into everyday life, advances in machine learning have enabled systems to better perceive and respond to users' emotional states. Most existing affect recognition datasets focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Karim Alghoul , Faisal Mohd , Fedwa Laamarti , Hussein Al Osman , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anders Rolighed Larsen , Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Paula Petcu , Line Clemmensen

Long-horizon interactions between users and LLM-based assistants necessitate effective memory management, yet current approaches face challenges in training and evaluation of memory. Existing memory benchmarks rely on static, off-policy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cheng Jiayang , Dongyu Ru , Lin Qiu , Yiyang Li , Xuezhi Cao , Yangqiu Song , Xunliang Cai

This paper presents a computational framework for providing affective labels to real-life situations, called A-Situ. We first define an affective situation, as a specific arrangement of affective entities relevant to emotion elicitation in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Byung Hyung Kim , Sungho Jo

Accurate recognition of human emotions is critical for adaptive human-computer interaction, yet remains challenging in dynamic, conversation-like settings. This work presents a personality-aware multimodal framework that integrates…

Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz