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The rise of Agentic applications and automation in the Voice AI industry has led to an increased reliance on Large Language Models (LLMs) to navigate graph-based logic workflows composed of nodes and edges. However, existing methods face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Alex Casella , Wayne Wang

Automated recognition of facial expressions of emotions, and detection of facial action units (AUs), from videos depends critically on modeling of their dynamics. These dynamics are characterized by changes in temporal phases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Robert Walecki , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Maja Pantic

Cross-Video Reasoning (CVR) has emerged as a critical frontier in multimodal intelligence, requiring models to retrieve, align, and aggregate evidence distributed across multiple videos. Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yilun Qiu , Jiahe Wang , Cilin Yan , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Chun Yuan

The ever-increasing demands for intuitive interactions in Virtual Reality has triggered a boom in the realm of Facial Expression Recognition (FER). To address the limitations in existing approaches (e.g., narrow receptive fields and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yande Li , Mingjie Wang , Minglun Gong , Yonggang Lu , Li Liu

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have catalyzed a paradigm shift from static prediction systems to agentic AI agents capable of reasoning, interacting with tools, and adapting to complex tasks. While LLM-based agentic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Nima Fathi , Amar Kumar , Tal Arbel

Facial expression recognition (FER) is vital for human-computer interaction and emotion analysis, yet recognizing expressions in low-resolution images remains challenging. This paper introduces a practical method called Dynamic Resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Songpan Wang , Xu Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Yuanlun Xie

Audiovisual emotion recognition (AVER) aims to infer human emotions from nonverbal visual-audio (VA) cues, offering modality-complementary and language-agnostic advantages. However, AVER remains challenging due to the inherent ambiguity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hao Cheng , Zhiwei Zhao , Yichao He , Zhenzhen Hu , Jia Li , Meng Wang , Richang Hong

Facial expression recognition (FER) is a key research area in computer vision and human-computer interaction. Despite recent advances in deep learning, challenges persist, especially in generalizing to new scenarios. In fact, zero-shot FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Modesto Castrillón-Santana , Oliverio J Santana , David Freire-Obregón , Daniel Hernández-Sosa , Javier Lorenzo-Navarro

In humans, perceptual awareness facilitates the fast recognition and extraction of information from sensory input. This awareness largely depends on how the human agent interacts with the environment. In this work, we propose active neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali

In the contemporary era of intelligent connectivity, Affective Computing (AC), which enables systems to recognize, interpret, and respond to human behavior states, has become an integrated part of many AI systems. As one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Xinyu Li , Marwa Mahmoud

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) extends traditional facial emotion recognition by incorporating explainable, fine-grained reasoning. The task integrates three subtasks: emotion recognition, facial Action Unit (AU) recognition, and AU-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jiulong Wu , Yucheng Shen , Lingyong Yan , Haixin Sun , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang , Min Cao

Human affective behavior analysis aims to delve into human expressions and behaviors to deepen our understanding of human emotions. Basic expression categories (EXPR) and Action Units (AUs) are two essential components in this analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Li Lin , Sarah Papabathini , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

Automated deception detection systems can enhance health, justice, and security in society by helping humans detect deceivers in high-stakes situations across medical and legal domains, among others. This paper presents a novel analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Leena Mathur , Maja J Matarić

Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by predefined label spaces, thereby enabling fine-grained emotion understanding. Unlike traditional discriminative methods, OV-MER…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zheng Lian , Fan Zhang , Lan Chen , Yazhou Zhang , Rui Liu , Jinyang Wu , Haoyu Chen , Xiaobai Li , Xiaojiang Peng , Bin He , Jianhua Tao

The recent advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is transforming human-computer interaction (HCI) from surface-level exchanges into more nuanced and emotionally intelligent communication. To realize this shift, emotion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hyeongseop Rha , Jeong Hun Yeo , Yeonju Kim , Yong Man Ro

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in computer vision and finds extensive applications across various fields. This paper aims to present our approach for the upcoming 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jun Yu , Zhihong Wei , Zhongpeng Cai , Gongpeng Zhao , Zerui Zhang , Yongqi Wang , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

As a critical psychological stress response, micro-expressions (MEs) are fleeting and subtle facial movements revealing genuine emotions. Automatic ME recognition (MER) holds valuable applications in fields such as criminal investigation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Shifeng Liu , Xinglong Mao , Sirui Zhao , Peiming Li , Tong Xu , Enhong Chen

Visual cues, like lip motion, have been shown to improve the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems in noisy environments. We propose LipGER (Lip Motion aided Generative Error Correction), a novel framework for leveraging…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Ashish Seth , Purva Chiniya , Utkarsh Tyagi , Ramani Duraiswami , Dinesh Manocha

Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is challenging due to intra-class variations and inter-class similarities. FER can be especially difficult when facial expressions reflect a mixture of various emotions (aka compound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ali Pourramezan Fard , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini , Timothy D. Sweeny , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Over the past few years, deep learning methods have shown remarkable results in many face-related tasks including automatic facial expression recognition (FER) in-the-wild. Meanwhile, numerous models describing the human emotional states…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Panagiotis Antoniadis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Petros Maragos