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Emotion recognition and understanding is a vital component in human-machine interaction. Dimensional models of affect such as those using valence and arousal have advantages over traditional categorical ones due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Vassilios Vonikakis , Dexter Neo , Stefan Winkler

Continuous emotion recognition in terms of valence and arousal under in-the-wild (ITW) conditions remains a challenging problem due to large variations in appearance, head pose, illumination, occlusions, and subject-specific patterns of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Elena Ryumina , Maxim Markitantov , Alexandr Axyonov , Dmitry Ryumin , Mikhail Dolgushin , Denis Dresvyanskiy , Alexey Karpov

Affective reactions have deep biological foundations, however in humans the development of emotion concepts is also shaped by language and higher-order cognition. A recent breakthrough in AI has been the creation of multimodal language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zaira Romeo , Alberto Testolin

Multimodal emotion analysis performed better in emotion recognition depending on more comprehensive emotional clues and multimodal emotion dataset. In this paper, we developed a large multimodal emotion dataset, named "HED" dataset, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhongyu Fang , Aoyun He , Qihui Yu , Baopeng Gao , Weiping Ding , Tong Zhang , Lei Ma

Understanding the multi-dimensional attributes and intensity nuances of image-evoked emotions is pivotal for advancing machine empathy and empowering diverse human-computer interaction applications. However, existing models are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lancheng Gao , Ziheng Jia , Zixuan Xing , Wei Sun , Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

With the rapid growth of AI-generated content (AIGC) across domains such as music, video, and literature, the demand for emotionally aware recommendation systems has become increasingly important. Traditional recommender systems primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zheqi Hu , Xuanjing Chen , Jinlin Hu

Facial Emotion Analysis (FEA) plays a crucial role in visual affective computing, aiming to infer a person's emotional state based on facial data. Scientifically, facial expressions (FEs) result from the coordinated movement of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhuozhao Hu , Kaishen Yuan , Xin Liu , Zitong Yu , Yuan Zong , Jingang Shi , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

We propose EmoLat, a novel emotion latent space that enables fine-grained, text-driven image sentiment transfer by modeling cross-modal correlations between textual semantics and visual emotion features. Within EmoLat, an emotion semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jing Zhang , Bingjie Fan , Jixiang Zhu , Zhe Wang

End-to-end autonomous driving (AD) systems increasingly adopt vision-language-action (VLA) models, yet they typically ignore the passenger's emotional state, which is central to comfort and AD acceptance. We introduce Open-Domain End-to-End…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yihong Tang , Haicheng Liao , Tong Nie , Junlin He , Ao Qu , Kehua Chen , Wei Ma , Zhenning Li , Lijun Sun , Chengzhong Xu

Multimodal emotion recognition has recently gained much attention since it can leverage diverse and complementary relationships over multiple modalities (e.g., audio, visual, biosignals, etc.), and can provide some robustness to noisy…

Numerous models describing the human emotional states have been built by the psychology community. Alongside, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are reaching excellent performances and are becoming interesting features extraction tools in many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Corentin Kervadec , Valentin Vielzeuf , Stéphane Pateux , Alexis Lechervy , Frédéric Jurie

Limited by the computational capabilities and battery energy of terminal devices and network bandwidth, emotion recognition tasks fail to achieve good interactive experience for users. The intolerable latency for users also seriously…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Long Hu , Wei Li , Jun Yang , Giancarlo Fortino , Min Chen

As technologies become more and more pervasive, there is a need for considering the affective dimension of interaction with computer systems to make them more human-like. Current demands for this matter include accurate emotion recognition,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Barbara Giżycka , Grzegorz J. Nalepa , Paweł Jemioło

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

To understand historical texts, we must be aware that language -- including the emotional connotation attached to words -- changes over time. In this paper, we aim at estimating the emotion which is associated with a given word in former…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Johannes Hellrich , Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Guoli Jia , Junyao Hu , Xinwei Long , Kai Tian , Kaiyan Zhang , KaiKai Zhao , Ning Ding , Bowen Zhou

Aesthetic Image Captioning (AIC) aims to generate textual descriptions of image aesthetics, becoming a key research direction in the field of computational aesthetics. In recent years, pretrained Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yilin Tao , Jiashui Huang , Huaze Xu , Ling Shao

Aspect-based Opinion Summary (AOS), consisting of aspect discovery and sentiment classification steps, has recently been emerging as one of the most crucial data mining tasks in e-commerce systems. Along this direction, the LDA-based model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Tai Hoang , Huy Le , Tho Quan

Decades of research indicate that emotion recognition is more effective when drawing information from multiple modalities. But what if some modalities are sometimes missing? To address this problem, we propose a novel Transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L. Crowley

Emotion recognition in real-world environments is hindered by partial occlusions, missing modalities, and severe class imbalance. To address these issues, particularly for the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jun Yu , Naixiang Zheng , Guoyuan Wang , Yunxiang Zhang , Lingsi Zhu , Jiaen Liang , Wei Huang , Shengping Liu