arXiv Computation and Language

MultiHuSE: A Multimodal Dataset for Humour Styles and Emotions

MultiHuSE is a multimodal dataset featuring 2,407 high‑definition videos of 50 diverse actors delivering 1,463 text samples in four psychological humour styles—affiliative, aggressive, self‑enhancing, and self‑deprecating—plus neutral content. Each text is performed by multiple actors, allowing analysis of expressive diversity, and a subset includes emotion annotations. Baseline experiments show that multimodal fusion improves humour style classification accuracy over unimodal approaches, especially for affiliative humour.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 28

From Perception to Punchline: Empowering VLM with the Art of In-the-wild Meme

The paper introduces HUMOR, a framework that enhances vision‑language models (VLMs) for generating humorous memes by guiding them through a hierarchical, multi‑path Chain‑of‑Thought reasoning process. HUMOR first identifies a template‑level intent, explores diverse reasoning paths under different contexts, and then anchors onto a high‑quality, context‑specific path, thereby increasing reasoning diversity. Additionally, a pairwise reward model trained on groups of memes sharing the same template captures subjective humor, enabling group‑wise reinforcement learning that guarantees monotonic improvement within a trust region. Experiments demonstrate that HUMOR improves reasoning diversity, preference alignment, and overall meme quality, and the authors suggest the approach generalizes to other open‑ended, human‑aligned multimodal generation tasks.

By Xueyan Li, Yingyi Xue, Mengjie Jiang, Qingzi Zhu, Yazhe Niu
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

Textualized and Feature-based Models for Compound Multimodal Emotion Recognition in the Wild

The paper compares text‑based and feature‑based models for recognizing compound emotions in real‑world videos. It proposes textualizing non‑verbal cues from audio and visual modalities into text to leverage large language models, while feature‑based models directly combine extracted multimodal features. Experiments on the C‑EXPR‑DB dataset show that feature‑based models outperform textualization in the wild, though textual models can excel when rich transcripts are available.

By Nicolas Richet, Soufiane Belharbi, Haseeb Aslam, Meike Emilie Schadt, Manuela Gonz\'alez-Gonz\'alez, Gustave Cortal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Marco Pedersoli, Alain Finkel, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger