arXiv:2512. 15376v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recognition of signers' emotions suffers from one theoretical challenge and one practical challenge, namely, the overlap between grammatical and affective facial expressions and the scarcity of data for model training.
By Kotaro Funakoshi, Yaoxiong Zhu
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
arXiv:2608.20905v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Face-to-face audiovisual interaction is central to human communication, conveying rich emotional and social cues. However, existing multimodal dialogue...
By Yi Zheng, Yifan Xu, Yan Zhou, Hejia Chen, Chunyu Qiang, Xiaoqiang Liu, Xiaohan Li, Shenze Huang, Yue Zhang, Guoying Zhao, Pengfei Wan
arXiv:2609.09924v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) requires integrating heterogeneous textual, audio, and visual cues while accounting for conversational conte...
By Oriol Mar\'in, Roger Mar\'i, Gloria Haro, Rafael Redondo
arXiv:2608.29035v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Emotion recognition in conversations is increasingly tackled with language models, but these models can be unstable and expensive to fine-tune or to pr...
By Thao Le, Michael Thielscher
arXiv:2606. 19352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign languages are expressive visual languages used by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) communities.
By Yiming Ni, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Jiayu Li, Wei Cheng
arXiv:2609.05806v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) aims to identify speakers' emotions in multi-turn dialogue. Accurate emotion recognition can support a wide...
By Amir Ben Khalifa, Fanny Bezancon, Amine Trabelsi, Bessam Abdulrazak
arXiv:2607. 03657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) translates sign language videos into spoken-language sentences without gloss annotations, avoiding costly labeling but requiring fine-grained modeling of hands, body, and facial cues.
By Ahmed Abul Hasanaath, Bicheng Xu, Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain, Leonid Sigal, Hamzah Luqman
HUG‑VIS is a unified multimodal benchmark for human‑centered visual intelligence, comprising 8,400 half‑body videos of 30 professional actors performing 280 emotion‑action prompts in Mandarin. The dataset provides synchronized video, audio, text, and alpha mattes for four tasks—human emotion recognition, video generation, voice cloning, and video matting—allowing evaluation of both open‑ and closed‑source models under a zero‑shot protocol. Results reveal that linguistic cues dominate emotion recognition, visual affect is weakest, and that automatic metrics and human judgments diverge in generation and cloning tasks, while motion‑related boundary fidelity remains a key challenge for matting.
By Fei Ma, Zebang Cheng, Minghui Li, Hongbo Xu, Yuyong Tan, Yihua Shao, Hanling Wang, Zhou Liu, Yuqing Gao, Dong Wang, Long Ma, Laizhong Cui, Nicu Sebe, Qi Tian
The paper introduces ACERT, a module that incorporates a flexible-length window of conversational context to enhance Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). By capturing emotional evolution across utterances, ACERT outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods on IEMOCAP, sets a new context‑aware benchmark on SAFE, and achieves strong results on MELD. Ablation studies attribute ACERT’s improvements to emotional and conversational continuity rather than speaker identity or acoustic conditions.
By Arthur Peuvot, Romaric Besan\c{c}on, Ga\"el de Chalendar, Bianca Vieru, Ioana Vasilescu
arXiv:2605. 01720v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing large-scale sign language resources typically provide supervision only at the level of raw video-text alignment and are often produced in laboratory settings.
By Sen Fang, Hongbin Zhong, Yanxin Zhang, Dimitris N. Metaxas
The paper introduces SignShift, a framework for visual-only sentence-level segmentation of continuous sign language videos. It uses a Temporal Difference Module that captures frame-to-frame feature variations across full-frame, facial, and hand cues, and a Segment Count Prediction module to guide boundary selection. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that SignShift outperforms existing methods, demonstrating its effectiveness for this challenging task.
By Bowen Guo, Shiwei Gan, Yafeng Yin, Xiao Liu, Kuizhuang Liu, Zhiwei Jiang, Lei Xie