Improving Speech Emotion Recognition Through Cross Modal Attention Alignment and Balanced Stacking Model

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Autori principali: Ueda, Lucas, Lima, João, Marques, Leonardo, Costa, Paula
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author Ueda, Lucas
Lima, João
Marques, Leonardo
Costa, Paula
author_facet Ueda, Lucas
Lima, João
Marques, Leonardo
Costa, Paula
contents Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem, particularly in natural speech and when the available data is imbalanced across emotions. This paper presents our proposed system in the context of the 2025 Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions Challenge. Our proposed architecture leverages cross-modality, utilizing cross-modal attention to fuse representations from different modalities. To address class imbalance, we employed two training designs: (i) weighted crossentropy loss (WCE); and (ii) WCE with an additional neutralexpressive soft margin loss and balancing. We trained a total of 12 multimodal models, which were ensembled using a balanced stacking model. Our proposed system achieves a MacroF1 score of 0.4094 and an accuracy of 0.4128 on 8-class speech emotion recognition.
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spellingShingle Improving Speech Emotion Recognition Through Cross Modal Attention Alignment and Balanced Stacking Model
Ueda, Lucas
Lima, João
Marques, Leonardo
Costa, Paula
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
Emotion plays a fundamental role in human interaction, and therefore systems capable of identifying emotions in speech are crucial in the context of human-computer interaction. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging problem, particularly in natural speech and when the available data is imbalanced across emotions. This paper presents our proposed system in the context of the 2025 Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions Challenge. Our proposed architecture leverages cross-modality, utilizing cross-modal attention to fuse representations from different modalities. To address class imbalance, we employed two training designs: (i) weighted crossentropy loss (WCE); and (ii) WCE with an additional neutralexpressive soft margin loss and balancing. We trained a total of 12 multimodal models, which were ensembled using a balanced stacking model. Our proposed system achieves a MacroF1 score of 0.4094 and an accuracy of 0.4128 on 8-class speech emotion recognition.
title Improving Speech Emotion Recognition Through Cross Modal Attention Alignment and Balanced Stacking Model
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20007