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

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
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
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.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Enriching Speech Emotion Representations with Conversational Context

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