6 papers
Affective Computing Has Changed: The Foundation Model Disruption
Björn Schuller, Adria Mallol-Ragolta, Alejandro Peña Almansa +5
The dawn of Foundation Models has on the one hand revolutionised a wide range of research problems, and, on the other hand, democratised the access and use of AI-based tools by the…
Towards Multimodal Prediction of Spontaneous Humour: A Novel Dataset and First Results
Lukas Christ, Shahin Amiriparian, Alexander Kathan +3
Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods…
This Paper Had the Smartest Reviewers -- Flattery Detection Utilising an Audio-Textual Transformer-Based Approach
Lukas Christ, Shahin Amiriparian, Friederike Hawighorst +5
Flattery is an important aspect of human communication that facilitates social bonding, shapes perceptions, and influences behavior through strategic compliments and praise, levera…
The MuSe 2024 Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge: Social Perception and Humor Recognition
Shahin Amiriparian, Lukas Christ, Alexander Kathan +8
The Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge (MuSe) 2024 addresses two contemporary multimodal affect and sentiment analysis problems: In the Social Perception Sub-Challenge (MuSe-P…
Exploring Meta Information for Audio-based Zero-shot Bird Classification
Alexander Gebhard, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Teresa Bez +3
Advances in passive acoustic monitoring and machine learning have led to the procurement of vast datasets for computational bioacoustic research. Nevertheless, data scarcity is sti…
Modeling Emotional Trajectories in Written Stories Utilizing Transformers and Weakly-Supervised Learning
Lukas Christ, Shahin Amiriparian, Manuel Milling +2
Telling stories is an integral part of human communication which can evoke emotions and influence the affective states of the audience. Automatically modeling emotional trajectorie…