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most citedEfficient Multimodal Transformer with Dual-Level Feature Restoration for Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

253 citations · 394 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CV2026

Human-JEPA: A Human-Centric Vision Model that Perceives and Anticipates

Hui Wei, Licai Sun, Guoying Zhao

Machines that understand humans should perceive the present and anticipate the future. Existing human-centric vision model are pretrained on human images, set the state of the art…

cs.CV2025

Learning Transferable Facial Emotion Representations from Large-Scale Semantically Rich Captions

Licai Sun, Xingxun Jiang, Haoyu Chen +7

Current facial emotion recognition systems are predominately trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories or abstract dimensional values. This constrained form of superv…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.CV2025

MagicPortrait: Temporally Consistent Face Reenactment with 3D Geometric Guidance

Mengting Wei, Yante Li, Tuomas Varanka +2

In this study, we propose a method for video face reenactment that integrates a 3D face parametric model into a latent diffusion framework, aiming to improve shape consistency and…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models

Zheng Lian, Haoyu Chen, Lan Chen +9

The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advances multimodal emotion recognition (MER) to the next level, from naive discriminative tasks to complex emotion unders…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun +13

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) is a critical research area that seeks to decode human emotions from diverse data modalities. However, existing machine learning methods predom…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

AffectGPT: Dataset and Framework for Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun +3

Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition (EMER) is an emerging task that aims to achieve reliable and accurate emotion recognition. However, due to the high annotation cost, the…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

MER 2024: Semi-Supervised Learning, Noise Robustness, and Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun +15

Multimodal emotion recognition is an important research topic in artificial intelligence. Over the past few decades, researchers have made remarkable progress by increasing the dat…

cs.CV2024

Multimodal Fusion with Pre-Trained Model Features in Affective Behaviour Analysis In-the-wild

Zhuofan Wen, Fengyu Zhang, Siyuan Zhang +6

Multimodal fusion is a significant method for most multimodal tasks. With the recent surge in the number of large pre-trained models, combining both multimodal fusion methods and p…

cs.CV2024★ 70 cited

HiCMAE: Hierarchical Contrastive Masked Autoencoder for Self-Supervised Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition

Licai Sun, Zheng Lian, Bin Liu +1

Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition (AVER) has garnered increasing attention in recent years for its critical role in creating emotion-ware intelligent machines. Previous efforts in t…

cs.HC2024★ 6 cited

MERBench: A Unified Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Yong Ren +5

Multimodal emotion recognition plays a crucial role in enhancing user experience in human-computer interaction. Over the past few decades, researchers have proposed a series of alg…

cs.CV2024★ 29 cited

SVFAP: Self-supervised Video Facial Affect Perceiver

Licai Sun, Zheng Lian, Kexin Wang +5

Video-based facial affect analysis has recently attracted increasing attention owing to its critical role in human-computer interaction. Previous studies mainly focus on developing…

cs.MM2023★ 1 cited

ITEACH-Net: Inverted Teacher-studEnt seArCH Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Haiyang Sun, Zheng Lian, Chenglong Wang +4

There remain two critical challenges that hinder the development of ERC. Firstly, there is a lack of exploration into mining deeper insights from the data itself for conversational…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

GPT-4V with Emotion: A Zero-shot Benchmark for Generalized Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Haiyang Sun +5

Recently, GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V) has demonstrated remarkable visual capabilities across various tasks, but its performance in emotion recognition has not been fully evaluated.…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

MAE-DFER: Efficient Masked Autoencoder for Self-supervised Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition

Licai Sun, Zheng Lian, Bin Liu +1

Dynamic facial expression recognition (DFER) is essential to the development of intelligent and empathetic machines. Prior efforts in this field mainly fall into supervised learnin…

cs.MM2023★ 9 cited

Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun +13

Multimodal emotion recognition is an important research topic in artificial intelligence, whose main goal is to integrate multimodal clues to identify human emotional states. Curre…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

MER 2023: Multi-label Learning, Modality Robustness, and Semi-Supervised Learning

Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun +15

The first Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MER 2023) was successfully held at ACM Multimedia. The challenge focuses on system robustness and consists of three distinct tra…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

IRNet: Iterative Refinement Network for Noisy Partial Label Learning

Zheng Lian, Mingyu Xu, Lan Chen +4

Partial label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning, where each sample is associated with a set of candidate labels. Its basic assumption is that the ground-truth…

cs.LG2022★ 253 cited

Efficient Multimodal Transformer with Dual-Level Feature Restoration for Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Licai Sun, Zheng Lian, Bin Liu +1

With the proliferation of user-generated online videos, Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) has attracted increasing attention recently. Despite significant progress, there are sti…

cs.CV2022

Two-Aspect Information Fusion Model For ABAW4 Multi-task Challenge

Haiyang Sun, Zheng Lian, Bin Liu +3

In this paper, we propose the solution to the Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Challenge of the 4th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. The task of ABAW is to pred…

eess.AS2022

EmotionNAS: Two-stream Neural Architecture Search for Speech Emotion Recognition

Haiyang Sun, Zheng Lian, Bin Liu +6

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is an important research topic in human-computer interaction. Existing works mainly rely on human expertise to design models. Despite their success…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

GCNet: Graph Completion Network for Incomplete Multimodal Learning in Conversation

Zheng Lian, Lan Chen, Licai Sun +2

Conversations have become a critical data format on social media platforms. Understanding conversation from emotion, content and other aspects also attracts increasing attention fr…