HeLo: Heterogeneous Multi-Modal Fusion with Label Correlation for Emotion Distribution Learning

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Autori principali: Zheng, Chuhang, Tian, Chunwei, Wen, Jie, Zhang, Daoqiang, Zhu, Qi
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author Zheng, Chuhang
Tian, Chunwei
Wen, Jie
Zhang, Daoqiang
Zhu, Qi
author_facet Zheng, Chuhang
Tian, Chunwei
Wen, Jie
Zhang, Daoqiang
Zhu, Qi
contents Multi-modal emotion recognition has garnered increasing attention as it plays a significant role in human-computer interaction (HCI) in recent years. Since different discrete emotions may exist at the same time, compared with single-class emotion recognition, emotion distribution learning (EDL) that identifies a mixture of basic emotions has gradually emerged as a trend. However, existing EDL methods face challenges in mining the heterogeneity among multiple modalities. Besides, rich semantic correlations across arbitrary basic emotions are not fully exploited. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal emotion distribution learning framework, named HeLo, aimed at fully exploring the heterogeneity and complementary information in multi-modal emotional data and label correlation within mixed basic emotions. Specifically, we first adopt cross-attention to effectively fuse the physiological data. Then, an optimal transport (OT)-based heterogeneity mining module is devised to mine the interaction and heterogeneity between the physiological and behavioral representations. To facilitate label correlation learning, we introduce a learnable label embedding optimized by correlation matrix alignment. Finally, the learnable label embeddings and label correlation matrices are integrated with the multi-modal representations through a novel label correlation-driven cross-attention mechanism for accurate emotion distribution learning. Experimental results on two publicly available datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method in emotion distribution learning.
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spellingShingle HeLo: Heterogeneous Multi-Modal Fusion with Label Correlation for Emotion Distribution Learning
Zheng, Chuhang
Tian, Chunwei
Wen, Jie
Zhang, Daoqiang
Zhu, Qi
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
Multi-modal emotion recognition has garnered increasing attention as it plays a significant role in human-computer interaction (HCI) in recent years. Since different discrete emotions may exist at the same time, compared with single-class emotion recognition, emotion distribution learning (EDL) that identifies a mixture of basic emotions has gradually emerged as a trend. However, existing EDL methods face challenges in mining the heterogeneity among multiple modalities. Besides, rich semantic correlations across arbitrary basic emotions are not fully exploited. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal emotion distribution learning framework, named HeLo, aimed at fully exploring the heterogeneity and complementary information in multi-modal emotional data and label correlation within mixed basic emotions. Specifically, we first adopt cross-attention to effectively fuse the physiological data. Then, an optimal transport (OT)-based heterogeneity mining module is devised to mine the interaction and heterogeneity between the physiological and behavioral representations. To facilitate label correlation learning, we introduce a learnable label embedding optimized by correlation matrix alignment. Finally, the learnable label embeddings and label correlation matrices are integrated with the multi-modal representations through a novel label correlation-driven cross-attention mechanism for accurate emotion distribution learning. Experimental results on two publicly available datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method in emotion distribution learning.
title HeLo: Heterogeneous Multi-Modal Fusion with Label Correlation for Emotion Distribution Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06821