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New framework enhances multimodal emotion recognition using attention-based fusion

Researchers have developed a new framework for multimodal emotion recognition, integrating audio and visual data. The audio component uses Wav2Vec2, MFCCs, and acoustic descriptors processed by a BiLSTM, while the video component employs a ResNet50-BiLSTM architecture. A multi-head attention mechanism is used to fuse these features, allowing the model to adaptively weigh contributions from each modality. Experiments on the MELD and IEMOCAP datasets showed significant improvements over existing methods, particularly in unbalanced data scenarios. AI

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New framework enhances multimodal emotion recognition using attention-based fusion

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xu Lin, Ke Wang, Hui Kang, Xinying Wang ·

    Enhancing Multimodal Emotion Recognition via Multi-Feature Encoding and Attention-Based Fusion

    arXiv:2609.04690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition has attracted growing interest due to its importance in human-computer interaction, remote education, and healthcare. This paper proposes a novel multimodal emotion recognition framework that integra…