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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Dai , Linge Wang , Baoxiong Jia , Zeyu Zhang , Song-Chun Zhu , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu

Visual emotion analysis or recognition has gained considerable attention due to the growing interest in understanding how images can convey rich semantics and evoke emotions in human perception. However, visual emotion analysis poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Rahul Singh Maharjan , Marta Romeo , Angelo Cangelosi

Large Language Models primarily operate through text-based inputs and outputs, yet human emotion is communicated through both verbal and non-verbal cues, including facial expressions. While Vision-Language Models analyze facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Vaibhav Mehra , Guy Laban , Hatice Gunes

In this study, we investigate how environmental factors, specifically the scenes and objects involved, can affect the expression of emotions through body language. To this end, we introduce a novel multi-stream deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi , David Masip

Nowadays, short-form videos (SVs) are essential to web information acquisition and sharing in our daily life. The prevailing use of SVs to spread emotions leads to the necessity of conducting video emotion analysis (VEA) towards SVs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xuecheng Wu , Heli Sun , Junxiao Xue , Jiayu Nie , Xiangyan Kong , Ruofan Zhai , Liang He

Emotion and Intent Joint Understanding in Multimodal Conversation (MC-EIU) aims to decode the semantic information manifested in a multimodal conversational history, while inferring the emotions and intents simultaneously for the current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Rui Liu , Haolin Zuo , Zheng Lian , Xiaofen Xing , Björn W. Schuller , Haizhou Li

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) extracts emotions from multimodal data, including visual, speech, and text inputs, playing a key role in human-computer interaction. Attention-based fusion methods dominate MER research, achieving strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiajun He , Jinyi Mi , Tomoki Toda

The capability to automatically detect human stress can benefit artificial intelligent agents involved in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Stress and emotion are both human affective states, and stress has proven to have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Yiqun Yao , Michalis Papakostas , Mihai Burzo , Mohamed Abouelenien , Rada Mihalcea

A multi-modal emotion recognition method was established by combining two-channel convolutional neural network with ring network. This method can extract emotional information effectively and improve learning efficiency. The words were…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Jiazhen Wang

This paper presents a novel approach to processing multimodal data for dynamic emotion recognition, named as the Multimodal Masked Autoencoder for Dynamic Emotion Recognition (MultiMAE-DER). The MultiMAE-DER leverages the closely correlated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Peihao Xiang , Chaohao Lin , Kaida Wu , Ou Bai

Over the past few years many research efforts have been devoted to the field of affect analysis. Various approaches have been proposed for: i) discrete emotion recognition in terms of the primary facial expressions; ii) emotion analysis in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Emotions play an essential role in human communication. Developing computer vision models for automatic recognition of emotion expression can aid in a variety of domains, including robotics, digital behavioral healthcare, and media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yang Qian , Ali Kargarandehkordi , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Saimourya Surabhi , Mohammadmahdi Honarmand , Dennis Paul Wall , Peter Washington

Existing image emotion editing methods struggle to disentangle emotional cues from latent content representations, often yielding weak emotional expression and distorted visual structures. To bridge this gap, we propose EmoKGEdit, a novel…

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

Micro-expressions (MEs) are subtle, transient facial changes with very low intensity, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, yet they reveal a person genuine emotion. They are of great value in lie detection, behavioral analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Thi Bich Phuong Man , Luu Tu Nguyen , Vu Tram Anh Khuong , Thanh Ha Le , Thi Duyen Ngo

With the advancement of artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies, multimodal emotion recognition has become a prominent research topic. However, existing methods face challenges such as heterogeneous data fusion and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Wei Dai , Dequan Zheng , Feng Yu , Yanrong Zhang , Yaohui Hou

This paper presents our method for the estimation of valence-arousal (VA) in the 8th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) competition. Our approach integrates visual and audio information through a multimodal framework. The visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jun Yu , Yongqi Wang , Lei Wang , Yang Zheng , Shengfan Xu

Recent advances in AI-driven image generation have introduced new challenges for verifying the authenticity of digital evidence in forensic investigations. Modern generative models can produce visually consistent forgeries that evade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Opeyemi Bamigbade , Mark Scanlon , John Sheppard

Emotional information is essential for enhancing human-computer interaction and deepening image understanding. However, while deep learning has advanced image recognition, the intuitive understanding and precise control of emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Junjie Xu , Xingjiao Wu , Tanren Yao , Zihao Zhang , Jiayang Bei , Wu Wen , Liang He

This article presents a multimodal emotion recognition module integrated into a proactive Socially Interactive Agent (SIA) powered by generative artificial intelligence. The system evaluates real-time affective states through two distinct…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Adnana Dragut , Raquel Lacuesta , F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Jose M. Buades-Rubio