Sep 2026· 2026 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW)· pp. 1-5· 0 citations· 42 references
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This research focuses on auditory hypersensitivity in people with autism, a phenomenon that is often difficult to evaluate and unique to each individual.
Abstract
My doctoral work aims to explore Audio Emotion Recognition (AER) in the context of atypical listening. This research focuses on auditory hypersensitivity in people with autism, a phenomenon that is often difficult to evaluate and unique to each individual. Our core idea is to leverage our understanding of affect from acoustic traits, relying on the possibility of generalizing affective responses from a small amount of annotated data. As a first step, we fine-tune a large foundation model, Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) using low-rank adaptation (LoRA), trained on a valence and arousal dataset of neurotypical listeners.
Emotion prosody perception requires simultaneous processing of acoustic cues and speaker identity. While listeners effortlessly decode natural speech, AI synthetic voices introduce cognitive complexities due to subtle acoustic atypicalities. It remains unclear how these synthetic features interact with a listener's pri...
Feng-Yi Xu, Gao-Yuan Zhang, Shan-Shan Xue et al.· 0 citations
The results show that the evaluated baselines can extract some affective signal from speech, but discrete expressed-emotion recognition remains fragile, especially for non-neutral emotions that are often most important in voice agent workflows.
Luc Debaupte, Tyler Baumgartner, Brandon Tai et al.· 1 citation
Facial Emotion Expression Recognition is widely agreed to be one aspect of social function that is impaired within the usual characterisation of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The ”Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test is used to this day in the diagnostic process. However, it disregards temporal data, has potential test forma...
Sean Haddick, David J. Brown, James Lewis et al.· Proceedings of the Internati...· 0 citations
Introduction Emotion recognition from speech prosody is a complex cognitive ability that depends on the functional integrity of a distributed neuronal network and may be shaped by demographic, clinical and lifestyle factors. The Terrapino mobile application was developed as a tool to promote cognitive health, but its d...
Martin Šimčík, Ross Andel, Jan Pavlík et al.· Frontiers in Psychology· 0 citations
EmoSpeechBrain is introduced, a multimodal framework built on the insight that noise suppression is a precondition for effective fusion, and shows that once EEG noise is suppressed, fusion delivers gains that naive combination cannot.
Philip H. Lee, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, John H. L. Hansen· 0 citations
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