Srigowri Mayasandra Prasanna

When Modalities Disagree: Multimodal Sentiment Conflict as an Affective Signal in Collaborative Learning

Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) systems typically combine facial, vocal, and linguistic cues to arrive at a single consensus label, often treating any disagreement between modalities as noise. However, we argue that in collaborative learning settings, such disagreements can provide valuable emotional signals. We p...