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Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) plays an influential role in the field of human-computer interaction and conversational robotics since it can motivate machines to provide empathetic services. Multimodal data modeling is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Guoqing Lv , Zhigang Zeng

Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to identify the emotions expressed by individuals through visual, language, and acoustic cues. However, most existing research assume that all modalities are available during both training and testing,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weide Liu , Huijing Zhan

In this paper, we propose a novel deep inductive transfer learning framework, named feature distribution adaptation network, to tackle the challenging multi-modal speech emotion recognition problem. Our method aims to use deep transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shaokai Li , Yixuan Ji , Peng Song , Haoqin Sun , Wenming Zheng

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) aims to identify and understand the emotions expressed by speakers during utterance interaction from multiple modalities (e.g., text, audio, images, etc.). Existing studies have shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tao Meng , Weilun Tang , Yuntao Shou , Yilong Tan , Jun Zhou , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Recognition of expressions of emotions and affect from facial images is a well-studied research problem in the fields of affective computing and computer vision with a large number of datasets available containing facial images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Tian Xu , Jennifer White , Sinan Kalkan , Hatice Gunes

The lack of data and the difficulty of multimodal fusion have always been challenges for multimodal emotion recognition (MER). In this paper, we propose to use pretrained models as upstream network, wav2vec 2.0 for audio modality and BERT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dekai Sun , Yancheng He , Jiqing Han

Emotion recognition is an important component of affective computing, and also human-machine interaction. Unimodal emotion recognition is convenient, but the accuracy may not be high enough; on the contrary, multi-modal emotion recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Siyuan Kan , Huanyu Wu , Zhenyao Cui , Fan Huang , Xiaolong Xu , Dongrui Wu

Multimodal sentiment analysis is an important research area that predicts speaker's sentiment tendency through features extracted from textual, visual and acoustic modalities. The central challenge is the fusion method of the multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Zilong Wang , Zhaohong Wan , Xiaojun Wan

LLM-based multimodal emotion recognition relies on static parametric memory and often hallucinates when interpreting nuanced affective states. In this paper, given that single-round retrieval-augmented generation is highly susceptible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zeheng Wang , Zitong Yu , Yijie Zhu , Bo Zhao , Haochen Liang , Taorui Wang , Wei Xia , Jiayu Zhang , Zhishu Liu , Hui Ma , Fei Ma , Qi Tian

Previous studies have demonstrated that emotional features from a single acoustic sentiment label can enhance depression diagnosis accuracy. Additionally, according to the Emotion Context-Insensitivity theory and our pilot study,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Rongfeng Su , Changqing Xu , Xinyi Wu , Feng Xu , Xie Chen , Lan Wangt , Nan Yan

Despite their strong performance in multimodal emotion reasoning, existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often overlook the scenarios involving emotion conflicts, where emotional cues from different modalities are inconsistent.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhiyuan Han , Beier Zhu , Yanlong Xu , Peipei Song , Xun Yang

Human emotions involve basic and compound facial expressions. However, current research on facial expression recognition (FER) mainly focuses on basic expressions, and thus fails to address the diversity of human emotions in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xinyi Zou , Yan Yan , Jing-Hao Xue , Si Chen , Hanzi Wang

Human multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to perceive human emotions via language, visual and acoustic modalities. Despite the impressive performance of previous MER approaches, the inherent multimodal heterogeneities still haunt and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yong Li , Yuanzhi Wang , Zhen Cui

With the rapid development of multimedia, the shift from unimodal textual sentiment analysis to multimodal image-text sentiment analysis has obtained academic and industrial attention in recent years. However, multimodal sentiment analysis…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fuhai Chen , Pengpeng Huang , Xuri Ge , Jie Huang , Zishuo Bao

This paper proposes a process for a classification model for the facial expressions. The proposed process would aid in specific categorisation of children's emotions from 2 emotions namely 'Happy' and 'Sad'. Since the existing emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Sanchayan Vivekananthan

In this work, we investigate multimodal foundation models (MFMs) for EmoFake detection (EFD) and hypothesize that they will outperform audio foundation models (AFMs). MFMs due to their cross-modal pre-training, learns emotional patterns…

Emotion classifiers traditionally predict discrete emotions. However, emotion expressions are often subjective, thus requiring a method to handle subjective labels. We explore the use of crowdsourcing to acquire reliable soft-target labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Peter Washington , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Emilie Leblanc , Aaron Kline , Cathy Hou , Brianna Chrisman , Nate Stockham , Kelley Paskov , Catalin Voss , Nick Haber , Dennis Wall

Truly real-life data presents a strong, but exciting challenge for sentiment and emotion research. The high variety of possible `in-the-wild' properties makes large datasets such as these indispensable with respect to building robust…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Lukas Stappen , Alice Baird , Lea Schumann , Björn Schuller

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to accurately identify human emotional states by integrating heterogeneous modalities such as visual, auditory, and textual data. Existing approaches predominantly rely on unified emotion labels to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Wen Yin , Siyu Zhan , Cencen Liu , Xin Hu , Guiduo Duan , Xiurui Xie , Yuan-Fang Li , Tao He

The affective brain-computer interface is a crucial technology for affective interaction and emotional intelligence, emerging as a significant area of research in the human-computer interaction. Compared to single-type features, multi-type…

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