6 papers
RobotEQ: Transitioning from Passive Intelligence to Active Intelligence in Embodied AI
Kuofei Fang, Xinyi Che, Haomin Ouyang +12
Embodied AI is a prominent research topic in both academia and industry. Current research centers on completing tasks based on explicit user instructions. However, for robots to in…
AffectGPT-RL: Revealing Roles of Reinforcement Learning in Open-Vocabulary Emotion Recognition
Zheng Lian, Fan Zhang, Lan Chen +8
Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by predefined label spaces, thereby enabling fine-grained emotion underst…
MER 2026: From Discriminative Emotion Recognition to Generative Emotion Understanding
Zheng Lian, Xiaojiang Peng, Kele Xu +16
MER2026 marks the fourth edition of the MER series of challenges. The MER series provides valuable data resources to the research community and offers tasks centered on recent rese…
AffectGPT-R1: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning for Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Zheng Lian, Fan Zhang, Yazhou Zhang +5
Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition (OV-MER) aims to predict emotions without being constrained by label spaces, enabling fine-grained emotion understanding. Unlike trad…
EmoPrefer: Can Large Language Models Understand Human Emotion Preferences?
Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Lan Chen +8
Descriptive Multimodal Emotion Recognition (DMER) has garnered increasing research attention. Unlike traditional discriminative paradigms that rely on predefined emotion taxonomies…
PreGenie: An Agentic Framework for High-quality Visual Presentation Generation
Xiaojie Xu, Xinli Xu, Sirui Chen +3
Visual presentations are vital for effective communication. Early attempts to automate their creation using deep learning often faced issues such as poorly organized layouts, inacc…