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Shahin Amiriparian

3 accepted papers

2026

SMOOTHCLAP: SOFT-TARGET ENHANCED CONTRASTIVE LANGUAGE-AUDIO PRETRAINING FOR AFFECTIVE COMPUTING

ICASSP 2026poster

The ambiguity of human emotions poses several challenges for machine learning models, as they often overlap and lack clear delineating boundaries. Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has emerged as a key technique for generalisable emotion recognition. However, as conventional CLAP enforce…

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2024

Modeling Emotional Trajectories in Written Stories Utilizing Transformers and Weakly-Supervised Learning

ACL 2024findings

Telling stories is an integral part of human communication which can evoke emotions and influence the affective states of the audience. Automatically modeling emotional trajectories in stories has thus attracted considerable scholarly interest. However, as most existing works have been limited to un…

2018

Multimodal Bag-of-Words for Cross Domains Sentiment Analysis

ICASSP 2018accepted

The advantages of using cross domain data when performing text-based sentiment analysis have been established; however, similar findings have yet to be observed when performing multimodal sentiment analysis. A potential reason for this is that systems based on feature extracted from speech and facia…

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