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New benchmark and framework tackle emotion understanding in long videos

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Researchers have introduced LongEmoBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate emotion understanding and reasoning capabilities in long videos. They also propose LongEmo, a novel memory-augmented agentic framework that constructs an Event Memory Graph to model long-range dependencies and emotional dynamics across discrete events. Evaluations showed that existing methods struggle with long-video emotion analysis, while LongEmo achieved state-of-the-art performance, highlighting the effectiveness of its event-centric memory architecture. AI

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New benchmark and framework tackle emotion understanding in long videos

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Shuo Zhang, Yifan Zhou, Han Wang, Jinsong Zhang, Jingyu Li, Hongbing Li, Zhejun Zhang, Chengyi Zhao, Yuquan Hao, Yitong Liu, Jiyin Li, Ruiqi Tang, Zixuan Lin, Yi Luo, Xurui Zhang, Ronghao Chen, Huacan Wang, Lei Li ·

    LongEmo: Towards Emotion Understanding and Reasoning in Long Videos

    arXiv:2609.40079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in affective computing, their reasoning capabilities are largely confined to short video clips with limited interactions. However, real-world emotions are no…

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