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

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cs.CV2026

MOTOR-Bench: A Real-world Dataset and Multi-agent Framework for Zero-shot Human Mental State Understanding

Xiaoyu Yuan, Niklas Heikkala, Tiina Törmänen +3

Understanding human mental states from natural behavior is crucial for intelligent systems in the real world. However, most current research focuses on predicting isolated mental s…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.RO2026

RobotEQ: Towards Social Proactive Intelligence in Embodied Agents

Kuofei Fang, Zheng Lian, Xinyi Che +13

Embodied agents represent a prominent research focus across both academia and industry. The prevailing paradigm has gradually shifted from reactive assistance, which requires expli…

eess.AS2026

iMiGUE-Speech: A Spontaneous Speech Dataset for Affective Analysis

Sofoklis Kakouros, Fang Kang, Haoyu Chen

This work presents iMiGUE-Speech, an extension of the iMiGUE dataset that provides a spontaneous affective corpus for studying emotional and affective states. The new release focus…

cs.AI2026

SayNext-Bench: Why Do LLMs Struggle with Next-Utterance Anticipation?

Yueyi Yang, Haotian Liu, Fang Kang +4

We explore the use of large language models (LLMs) for next-utterance anticipation in human dialogue. Despite recent advances in LLMs demonstrating their ability to engage in natur…

cs.HC2025

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…

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.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…