collaborators

10 papers

cs.LG2026

Towards a Unified Modality-Agnostic Multimodal Framework for Cognitive Workload Assessment

Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Calvin Joseph +2

Cognitive workload reflects the mental effort required during task performance and is central to the design of adaptive human-machine systems. The use of biosignals to measure cogn…

cs.CV2026

UNWIND: Any-Length Facial Video for Stress Detection without Temporal Windowing

Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Eric Nichols +2

Automatic stress recognition from facial video provides a non-contact approach for affective monitoring. However, most existing video-based methods divide complete recordings into…

cs.AI2026

MUPAE: Multimodal Unified Perception with Asymmetric Attention for Emotion Assessment

Stefanos Gkikas, Eric Nichols, Christian Arzate Cruz +1

Automatic emotion assessment can benefit from combining neural and behavioral signals, but many multimodal approaches rely on separate, modality-specific feature-extraction pipelin…

cs.AI2026

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

Christian Arzate Cruz, Stefanos Gkikas, Houshyar Asadi

Body-based emotion recognition is important for real-time affective systems, but graph-based skeleton models can be computationally expensive. This paper studies whether lightweigh…

cs.CV2026

ReFace: Reorganizing Facial Spatiotemporal Representations for Improved Pain Assessment

Stefanos Gkikas, Yu Fang, Christian Arzate Cruz +2

Automatic pain assessment from facial video remains challenging due to the spatial heterogeneity of pain-related facial cues. This study proposes ReFace, a spatial reorganization p…

cs.CV2026

A Unified Tokenization Framework for Pain Recognition using Heterogeneous 3D Modalities

Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Valentina Becchetti +3

Pain is a complex and pervasive phenomenon affecting a large percentage of the population, and accurate assessment is essential for effective clinical management and intervention.…