arXiv Computer Vision

A Comprehensive Review of Multimodal Facial State Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Resources

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

HUG-VIS: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence

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
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Enhancing Multimodal Emotion Recognition via Multi-Feature Encoding and Attention-Based Fusion

The paper introduces a multimodal emotion recognition framework that combines audio and visual feature extraction with an attention-based fusion strategy. Audio features include Wav2Vec2 embeddings, MFCCs, and statistical acoustic descriptors, fused via a BiLSTM, while video features are extracted using a ResNet50-BiLSTM architecture. A multi-head attention mechanism fuses these modalities, and experiments on MELD and IEMOCAP show significant accuracy and robustness gains, especially in unbalanced data settings.

By Xu Lin, Ke Wang, Hui Kang, Xinying Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Occlusion-Robust Multimodal Emotion Recognition in VR via Fusion of Facial Images and EMG

The paper presents a method for emotion recognition in virtual reality where head‑mounted displays occlude the upper face. By fusing lower‑face video with electromyography (EMG) signals from the occluded upper face, the authors achieve a 51% macro‑F1 score across seven emotional categories, outperforming image‑only and EMG‑only baselines. A new synchronized multimodal dataset from 20 participants is introduced and will be shared under an ethical‑use agreement.

By Birgit Nierula, Karam Tomotaki-Dawoud, Mert Akguel, Mustafa Tevfik Lafci, David Przewozny, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert, Sebastian Bosse
arXiv AI
Jul 17

InCarEmo: A Multimodal Dataset for In-Cabin Emotion Recognition and Driver State Monitoring

arXiv:2607. 14683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding driver emotion and state is critical for the next generation of intelligent in-cabin systems that ensure safety and enhance human-vehicle interaction.

By Hao Yang, Yanyan Zhao, Kewei Zhao, Hongbo Zhang, Tian Zheng, Yusheng Liu, Xing Fu, Bichen Wang, Yu Zhang, Hao He, Zhen Wu, Xuda Zhi, Yongbo Huang, Bing Qin
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

Capturing Dynamics: The 4D Facial Expression Intensity Dataset

The paper introduces the 4D Facial Expression Intensity Dataset (4DFEID), comprising 2,869 mesh sequences that capture 3D, temporally continuous facial expressions with varied peak intensities and identities. Subjective intensity ratings were collected via crowdsourcing, yielding over 90,000 Likert-scale annotations. Baseline experiments show that spatial‑temporal graph models outperform traditional frame‑aggregation methods, highlighting the dataset’s value for dynamic 3D expression analysis.

By Zesheng Wang, Alexandre Bruckert, Pierre Lebreton, Patrick Le Callet, Yante Li, Guoying Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

A Multimodal Emotion Recognition System: Integrating Facial Expressions, Body Movement, Speech, and Spoken Language

The paper introduces a multimodal emotion recognition system that integrates facial expressions, speech, text, and body movement to aid clinicians in psychological evaluation. While individual modalities perform well on benchmarks, their real‑world accuracy drops to 82.97%–87.64%, whereas the fused multimodal system reaches 96.43% accuracy with no state below 92.31%. These findings demonstrate that multimodal fusion enhances robustness in realistic settings, supporting more reliable evaluator assistance.

By Kris Kraack
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Mind the Student: Behavioral and Contextual Cues for Automated Engagement Prediction in Online Learning

The paper tackles the challenge of predicting student engagement from online tutoring videos, noting that engagement is a complex, multidimensional construct influenced by behavioral, emotional, and cognitive states. By analyzing the CASED dataset, the authors highlight the difficulty posed by high inter‑person variability and subjective annotations. They propose a multimodal framework that fuses implicit spatiotemporal features from pretrained video, audio, and image encoders with structured behavioral cues such as head pose, gaze, facial action units, emotion, and wavelet‑based audio features, integrating them via a Perceiver IO bottleneck and modeling participant personalities with variational posteriors. The system employs evidential regression and spectral‑normalized Gaussian process classification heads to provide uncertainty‑aware predictions, achieving competitive performance on the CASED challenge test set while offering well‑calibrated uncertainty metrics.

By Alperen Kantarci, Visvanathan Ramesh, Gemma Roig
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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 16

InCarEmo: A Multimodal Dataset for In-Cabin Emotion Recognition and Driver State Monitoring

Understanding driver emotion and state is critical for the next generation of intelligent in-cabin systems that ensure safety and enhance human-vehicle interaction. However, existing public datasets for in-cabin affective computing are largely limited to visual modalities and rarely include conversational information, making it difficult to capture the linguistic and interactive cues underlying driver emotion.