Emotion Recognition in Multi-Speaker Conversations through Speaker Identification, Knowledge Distillation, and Hierarchical Fusion

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Autores principales: Li, Xiao, Funakoshi, Kotaro, Okumura, Manabu
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author Li, Xiao
Funakoshi, Kotaro
Okumura, Manabu
author_facet Li, Xiao
Funakoshi, Kotaro
Okumura, Manabu
contents Emotion recognition in multi-speaker conversations faces significant challenges due to speaker ambiguity and severe class imbalance. We propose a novel framework that addresses these issues through three key innovations: (1) a speaker identification module that leverages audio-visual synchronization to accurately identify the active speaker, (2) a knowledge distillation strategy that transfers superior textual emotion understanding to audio and visual modalities, and (3) hierarchical attention fusion with composite loss functions to handle class imbalance. Comprehensive evaluations on MELD and IEMOCAP datasets demonstrate superior performance, achieving 67.75% and 72.44% weighted F1 scores respectively, with particularly notable improvements on minority emotion classes.
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spellingShingle Emotion Recognition in Multi-Speaker Conversations through Speaker Identification, Knowledge Distillation, and Hierarchical Fusion
Li, Xiao
Funakoshi, Kotaro
Okumura, Manabu
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Emotion recognition in multi-speaker conversations faces significant challenges due to speaker ambiguity and severe class imbalance. We propose a novel framework that addresses these issues through three key innovations: (1) a speaker identification module that leverages audio-visual synchronization to accurately identify the active speaker, (2) a knowledge distillation strategy that transfers superior textual emotion understanding to audio and visual modalities, and (3) hierarchical attention fusion with composite loss functions to handle class imbalance. Comprehensive evaluations on MELD and IEMOCAP datasets demonstrate superior performance, achieving 67.75% and 72.44% weighted F1 scores respectively, with particularly notable improvements on minority emotion classes.
title Emotion Recognition in Multi-Speaker Conversations through Speaker Identification, Knowledge Distillation, and Hierarchical Fusion
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13731