3 papers
cs.RO2026
Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents
Angelica Lim, Ã. Nilay Yalçin
The fields of human-robot interaction (HRI) and embodied conversational agents (ECAs) have long studied how empathy could be implemented in machines. One of the major drivers has b…
cs.CV2025
Contextual Emotion Recognition using Large Vision Language Models
Yasaman Etesam, Ãzge Nilay Yalçın, Chuxuan Zhang +1
"How does the person in the bounding box feel?" Achieving human-level recognition of the apparent emotion of a person in real world situations remains an unsolved task in computer…
cs.CV2024
Emotional Theory of Mind: Bridging Fast Visual Processing with Slow Linguistic Reasoning
Yasaman Etesam, Ãzge Nilay Yalçın, Chuxuan Zhang +1
The emotional theory of mind problem requires facial expressions, body pose, contextual information and implicit commonsense knowledge to reason about the person's emotion and its…