2 papers
cs.SD2026
AffectCodec: Emotion-Preserving Neural Speech Codec for Expressive Speech Modeling
Jiacheng Shi, Hongfei Du, Xinyuan Song +3
Neural speech codecs provide discrete representations for speech language models, but emotional cues are often degraded during quantization. Existing codecs mainly optimize acousti…
cs.CV2026
CREMD: Crowd-Sourced Emotional Multimodal Dogs Dataset
Jinho Baek, Houwei Cao, Kate Blackwell
Dog emotion recognition plays a crucial role in enhancing human-animal interactions, veterinary care, and the development of automated systems for monitoring canine well-being. How…