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Enhancing Multimodal Emotion Recognition through Multi-Granularity Cross-Modal Alignment

Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition (MER), leveraging speech and text, has emerged as a pivotal domain within human-computer interaction, demanding sophisticated methods for effective multimodal integration. The challenge of aligning features across these modalities is significant, with most existing approaches adopting a singular alignment strategy. Such a narrow focus not only limits model performance but also fails to address the complexity and ambiguity inherent in emotional expressions. In response, this paper introduces a Multi-Granularity Cross-Modal Alignment (MGCMA) framework, distinguished by its comprehensive approach encompassing distribution-based, instance-based, and token-based alignment modules. This framework enables a multi-level perception of emotional information across modalities. Our experiments on IEMOCAP demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms current state-of-the-art techniques.
Institution: Nankai University
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4408352120
FWCI: 19.91
Cites: 27
Cited by: 12
Related to: 10