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Efficient and Interpretable Body-Based Emotion Recognition with Lightweight Temporal Convolutional Networks

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arXiv:2607. 20820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Body-based emotion recognition is important for real-time affective systems, but graph-based skeleton models can be computationally expensive.

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