WavFusion: Towards wav2vec 2.0 Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition

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Autori principali: Li, Feng, Luo, Jiusong, Xia, Wanjun
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author Li, Feng
Luo, Jiusong
Xia, Wanjun
author_facet Li, Feng
Luo, Jiusong
Xia, Wanjun
contents Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal learning. However, existing multimodal fusion techniques often overlook the intricacies of cross-modal interactions, resulting in suboptimal feature representations. In this paper, we propose WavFusion, a multimodal speech emotion recognition framework that addresses critical research problems in effective multimodal fusion, heterogeneity among modalities, and discriminative representation learning. By leveraging a gated cross-modal attention mechanism and multimodal homogeneous feature discrepancy learning, WavFusion demonstrates improved performance over existing state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets. Our work highlights the importance of capturing nuanced cross-modal interactions and learning discriminative representations for accurate multimodal SER. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets (IEMOCAP and MELD) demonstrate that WavFusion succeeds over the state-of-the-art strategies on emotion recognition.
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spellingShingle WavFusion: Towards wav2vec 2.0 Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition
Li, Feng
Luo, Jiusong
Xia, Wanjun
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Audio and Speech Processing
Speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a challenging yet crucial task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human emotions. To address this problem, researchers attempt to fuse information from other modalities via multimodal learning. However, existing multimodal fusion techniques often overlook the intricacies of cross-modal interactions, resulting in suboptimal feature representations. In this paper, we propose WavFusion, a multimodal speech emotion recognition framework that addresses critical research problems in effective multimodal fusion, heterogeneity among modalities, and discriminative representation learning. By leveraging a gated cross-modal attention mechanism and multimodal homogeneous feature discrepancy learning, WavFusion demonstrates improved performance over existing state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets. Our work highlights the importance of capturing nuanced cross-modal interactions and learning discriminative representations for accurate multimodal SER. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets (IEMOCAP and MELD) demonstrate that WavFusion succeeds over the state-of-the-art strategies on emotion recognition.
title WavFusion: Towards wav2vec 2.0 Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05558