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This paper develops small vision language models to understand visual art, which, given an art work, aims to identify its emotion category and explain this prediction with natural language. While small models are computationally efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jing Zhang , Liang Zheng , Meng Wang , Dan Guo

Automatic emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is crucial for emotion-aware conversational artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a distribution-based framework that formulates ERC as a sequence-to-sequence problem for emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Lip Reading, or Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (V-ASR), is a complex task requiring the interpretation of spoken language exclusively from visual cues, primarily lip movements and facial expressions. This task is especially challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Marshall Thomas , Edward Fish , Richard Bowden

The purpose of emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is to identify the emotion category of an utterance based on contextual information. Previous ERC methods relied on simple connections for cross-modal fusion and ignored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoxiang Shi , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Yong Zhang , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) aims to detect the emotion label for each utterance. Motivated by recent studies which have proven that feeding training examples in a meaningful order rather than considering them randomly can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Lin Yang , Yi Shen , Yue Mao , Longjun Cai

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emotion annotations, which often fail to adequately represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yoshiki Tanaka , Ryuichi Uehara , Koji Inoue , Michimasa Inaba

The advent of deep learning models has made a considerable contribution to the achievement of Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC). However, this task still remains an important challenge due to the plurality and subjectivity of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Barbara Gendron , Gaël Guibon

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a pivotal role in enhancing human-computer interaction by enabling a deeper understanding of emotional states across a wide range of applications, contributing to more empathetic and effective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Amirali Soltani Tehrani , Niloufar Faridani , Ramin Toosi

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

Emotional voice conversion (EVC) involves modifying various acoustic characteristics, such as pitch and spectral envelope, to match a desired emotional state while preserving the speaker's identity. Existing EVC methods often rely on text…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hyung-Seok Oh , Sang-Hoon Lee , Deok-Hyeon Cho , Seong-Whan Lee

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

The task of emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) benefits from the availability of multiple modalities, as provided, for example, in the video-based Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD). However, only a few research approaches use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Hugo Carneiro , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

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

Video-based Affective Computing (VAC), vital for emotion analysis and human-computer interaction, suffers from model instability and representational degradation due to complex emotional dynamics. Since the meaning of different emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Feng-Qi Cui , Jinyang Huang , Sirui Zhao , Xinyu Li , Xin Yan , Ziyu Jia , Xiaokang Zhou

Context-aware emotion recognition (CAER) is a complex and significant task that requires perceiving emotions from various contextual cues. Previous approaches primarily focus on designing sophisticated architectures to extract emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuxuan Lei , Dingkang Yang , Zhaoyu Chen , Jiawei Chen , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

Empathetic speech dialogue requires not only understanding linguistic content but also perceiving rich paralinguistic information such as prosody, tone, and emotional intensity for affective understandings. Existing speech-to-speech large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Zhuoyue Gao , Xiaohui Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Wen Zhang , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) is vital to the advancements of conversational AI and its applications. Therefore, the development of an automated ERC model using the concepts of machine learning (ML) would be beneficial.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Amitabha Dey , Shan Suthaharan

This paper presents our approach for the SemEval-2024 Task 10: Emotion Discovery and Reasoning its Flip in Conversations. For the Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) task, we utilize a masked-memory network along with speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shubham Patel , Divyaksh Shukla , Ashutosh Modi

Recognizing emotions in conversations is a challenging task due to the presence of contextual dependencies governed by self- and inter-personal influences. Recent approaches have focused on modeling these dependencies primarily via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

In human communication, both verbal and non-verbal cues play a crucial role in conveying emotions, intentions, and meaning beyond words alone. These non-linguistic information, such as facial expressions, eye contact, voice tone, and pitch,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Se Jin Park , Yeonju Kim , Hyeongseop Rha , Bella Godiva , Yong Man Ro