Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with External Knowledge and Multi-granularity Image-Text Features

Implicit emotions are often expressed through implicit and weak clues between modalities due to the lack of explicit emotional feature words, representing a significant challenge for multimodal sentiment analysis. In order to improve implicit emotion recognition, this paper proposes a multimodal sentiment analysis method that integrates KAN and the modal dynamic fusion mechanism. This method first introduces the KAN structure to construct a modal feature encoder to enhance the emotional expression ability of features. Then, the emotional contribution weight of each modality is calculated using the difference between the unimodal and multimodal sentiment scores, and the cross-attention mechanism guided by the main modality is used for feature fusion. Experiments on four datasets, CH-SIMS, CH-SIMSv2, MOSI, and MOSEI, show that the proposed method significantly outperforms the mainstream model in multiple indicators, especially when dealing with samples with implicit or ambiguous emotional expressions. The results verify the effectiveness of enhancing feature encoding capabilities and utilizing modal asymmetry information in implicit sentiment analysis.

Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (MABSA) is an essential task in sentiment analysis that has garnered considerable attention in recent years. Typical approaches in MABSA often utilize cross-modal Transformers to capture interactions between textual and visual modalities. However, bridging the semantic gap between modalities spaces and addressing interference from irrelevant visual objects at different scales remains challenging. To tackle these limitations, we present the Multi-level Textual-Visual Alignment and Fusion Network (MTVAF) in this work, which incorporates three auxiliary tasks. Specifically, MTVAF first transforms multi-level image information into image descriptions, facial descriptions, and optical characters. These are then concatenated with the textual input to form a textual+visual input, facilitating comprehensive alignment between visual and textual modalities. Next, both inputs are fed into an integrated text model that incorporates relevant visual representations. Dynamic attention mechanisms are employed to generate visual prompts to control cross-modal fusion. Finally, we align the probability distributions of the textual input space and the textual+visual input space, effectively reducing noise introduced during the alignment process. Experimental results on two MABSA benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MTVAF, showcasing its superior performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches. Our codes are available at https://github.com/MKMaS-GUET/MTVAF.

Multimodal sentiment analysis is an extended approach to traditional language-based sentiment analysis, which uses other relevant modality data. Multimodal sentiment analysis usually applies visual, textual, and acoustic representations for sentiment prediction. Recently, various data fusion methodologies have been proposed for multimodal sentiment analysis. In most cases, textual modality plays a major role, and visual and acoustic modalities are used as auxiliary sources for multimodal sentiment analysis. However, in general multimedia such as video, text transcripts of an individual's speech are not provided. Research on an audio-visual sentiment analysis methodology that does not depend on text modality is essential for multimodal sentiment analysis in real-world industrial applications. Therefore, it is important to improve audio-visual sentiment analysis because it currently exhibits lower performance than multimodal sentiment analysis, including text modality. In this paper, we propose heterogeneous modality transfer learning (HMTL) to utilize the knowledge of aligned text data as a source modality in transfer learning to improve audio-visual sentiment analysis performance. Our approach uses a decoder and adversarial learning techniques to reduce the gap between the source and target modalities in the embedded space for multimodal representation. Our proposed methodology experimentally outperformed recent unimodal and bimodal audio-visual sentiment analysis achievements.

The Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge (MuSe) 2024 addresses two contemporary multimodal affect and sentiment analysis problems: In the Social Perception Sub-Challenge (MuSe-Perception), participants will predict 16 different social attributes of individuals such as assertiveness, dominance, likability, and sincerity based on the provided audio-visual data. The Cross-Cultural Humor Detection Sub-Challenge (MuSe-Humor) dataset expands upon the Passau Spontaneous Football Coach Humor (Passau-SFCH) dataset, focusing on the detection of spontaneous humor in a cross-lingual and cross-cultural setting. The main objective of MuSe 2024 is to unite a broad audience from various research domains, including multimodal sentiment analysis, audio-visual affective computing, continuous signal processing, and natural language processing. By fostering collaboration and exchange among experts in these fields, the MuSe 2024 endeavors to advance the understanding and application of sentiment analysis and affective computing across multiple modalities. This baseline paper provides details on each sub-challenge and its corresponding dataset, extracted features from each data modality, and discusses challenge baselines. For our baseline system, we make use of a range of Transformers and expert-designed features and train Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)-Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models on them, resulting in a competitive baseline system. On the unseen test datasets of the respective sub-challenges, it achieves a mean Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (ρ) of 0.3573 for MuSe-Perception and an Area Under the Curve (AUC) value of 0.8682 for MuSe-Humor.

Filtering of spam image-based email remains a major challenge for researchers. This paper presents a proposed work which is based on several facts such that spam images containing a large percentage of text which has characteristics or features different from other types of images. In addition to that, there is much similarity between the features of these images. These facts can be used to distinguish text regions spam images from others. A hybrid method based on combined features vector from text regions and features of the image is proposed. Two types of features are extracted. The first features extraction method is the local binary pattern (LBP) with extricating the image texture features directly, while the second is utilised to extricate features of image text regions only. The extracted features are used in individual and combination style in order to learn classifiers at the training stage. A one-class KNN classifier and two-class KNN classifier are applied separately. Each classifier was used in three fashion, with the text-regions features, with texture features in the image, and with merging both those features respectively. Experimental results showed that the appropriation of both image and text features together improves the effectiveness of the classification concerning the case in which only image or text features are used.

Multimodal sentiment analysis has attracted increasing attention and lots of models have been proposed. However, the performance of the state-of-the-art models decreases sharply when they are deployed in the real world. We find that the main reason is that real-world applications can only access the text outputs by the automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, which may be with errors because of the limitation of model capacity. Through further analysis of the ASR outputs, we find that in some cases the sentiment words, the key sentiment elements in the textual modality, are recognized as other words, which makes the sentiment of the text change and hurts the performance of multimodal sentiment analysis models directly. To address this problem, we propose the sentiment word aware multimodal refinement model (SWRM), which can dynamically refine the erroneous sentiment words by leveraging multimodal sentiment clues. Specifically, we first use the sentiment word position detection module to obtain the most possible position of the sentiment word in the text and then utilize the multimodal sentiment word refinement module to dynamically refine the sentiment word embeddings. The refined embeddings are taken as the textual inputs of the multimodal feature fusion module to predict the sentiment labels. We conduct extensive experiments on the real-world datasets including MOSI-Speechbrain, MOSI-IBM, and MOSI-iFlytek and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of our model, which surpasses the current state-of-the-art models on three datasets. Furthermore, our approach can be adapted for other multimodal feature fusion models easily 1 .

A feature-based restoration dynamic interaction network for multimodal sentiment analysis

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to assess emotional states by integrating information from text, audio, and video. However, the heterogeneous nature of these modalities presents substantial challenges for accurate sentiment prediction. Existing approaches typically align pairs of modalities using attention mechanisms or contrastive learning, which are computationally expensive. Additionally, they often rely on a single granularity of alignment, either by averaging features over all time steps or aligning features at each individual time step. These approaches overlook the fact that emotional expression can vary across individuals and contexts, requiring multiple granularities to capture emotion effectively. To address these challenges, we propose a novel framework, Retrieve, Rank, and Reconstruction with Different Granularities (R3DG). R3DG segments the audio and video modalities into multiple representations at varying granularities based on their temporal durations. It then selects the most relevant representations that align closely with the text modality. To preserve the original information, R3DG reconstructs the audio and video data using the selected representations. Finally, the fused audio, video, and text features are aligned and combined for sentiment prediction, reducing the need for multiple alignment steps. Extensive experiments on 5 benchmark MSA datasets demonstrate that R3DG outperforms existing methods and achieves substantial reductions in computational time. Code is available at https://github.com/YetZzzzzz/R3DG.

With the popularization of better network access and the penetration of personal smartphones in today’s world, the explosion of multi-modal data, particularly opinionated video messages, has created urgent demands and immense opportunities for Multi-Modal Sentiment Analysis (MSA). Deep learning with the attention mechanism has served as the foundation technique for most state-of-the-art MSA models due to its ability to learn complex inter- and intra-relationships among different modalities embedded in video messages, both temporally and spatially. However, modal fusion is still a major challenge due to the vast feature space created by the interactions among different data modalities. To address the modal fusion challenge, we propose an MSA algorithm based on deep learning and the attention mechanism, namely the Mixture of Attention Variants for Modal Fusion (MAVMF). The MAVMF algorithm includes a two-stage process: in stage one, self-attention is applied to effectively extract image and text features, and the dependency relationships in the context of video discourse are captured by a bidirectional gated recurrent neural module; in stage two, four multi-modal attention variants are leveraged to learn the emotional contributions of important features from different modalities. Our proposed approach is end-to-end and has been shown to achieve a superior performance to the state-of-the-art algorithms when tested with two largest public datasets, CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI.

Nocturnal groaning syndrome is a common sleep disorder characterized by irregular groaning or vocalizations during nighttime sleep, representing a significant area of research in sleep disorders. Nocturnal groaning syndrome is a common sleep disorder characterized by irregular groaning or vocalizations during nighttime sleep, representing a significant area of research in sleep disorders. proposes a multimodal recognition approach based on speech, image, and text modalities. The study analyzes audio features using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), which is the most common method for identifying nocturnal groaning syndrome. Coefficients (MFCC), extracts image features with pretrained MobileNetV2, and identifies key physiological signals from text using TF-IDF algorithm. Subsequently, Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling (MCB) is employed to fuse audio and image features, and a Text-Image CNN is used to combine image and text features. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is then used to classify the fused multimodal features, and decision-level fusion is performed using weighting criteria. Experimental results demonstrate an identification accuracy of 89.5% on the test set, significantly enhancing the auxiliary diagnostic effectiveness of nocturnurnal diagnosis. Experimental results demonstrate an identification accuracy of 89.5% on the test set, significantly enhancing the auxiliary diagnostic effectiveness of nocturnal groaning syndrome.

The traditional multi-modal sentiment analysis (MSA) method usually considers the multi-modal characteristics to be equally important and ignores the contribution of different modes to the final MSA result. Therefore, an MSA method based on hierarchical adaptive feature fusion network is proposed. Firstly, RoBERTa, ResViT, and LibROSA are used to extract different modal features and construct a layered adaptive multi-modal fusion network. Then, the multi-modal feature extraction module and cross-modal feature interaction module are combined to realize the interactive fusion of information between modes. Finally, an adaptive gating mechanism is introduced to design a global multi-modal feature interaction module to learn the unique features of different modes. The experimental results on three public data sets show that the proposed method can make full use of multi-modal information, outperform other advanced comparison methods, improve the accuracy and robustness of sentiment analysis, and is expected to achieve better results in the field of sentiment analysis.

Multimodal sentiment analysis refers to the use of computers to analyze and identify the emotions that people want to express through the extracted multimodal sentiment features, and it plays a significant role in human-computer interaction and financial market prediction. Most existing approaches to multimodal sentiment analysis use contextual information for modeling, and while this modeling approach can effectively capture the contextual connections within modalities, the correlations between modalities are often overlooked, and the correlations between modalities are also critical to the final recognition results in multimodal sentiment analysis. Therefore, this paper proposes a multimodal sentiment analysis approach based on the universal transformer, a framework that uses the universal transformer to model the connections between multiple modalities while employing effective feature extraction methods to capture the contextual connections of individual modalities. We evaluated our proposed method on two benchmark datasets for multimodal sentiment analysis, CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI, and the results outperformed other methods of the same type.

Multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition represent a major research direction in natural language processing (NLP). With the rapid development of online media, people often express their emotions on a topic in the form of video, and the signals it transmits are multimodal, including language, visual, and audio. Therefore, the traditional unimodal sentiment analysis method is no longer applicable, which requires the establishment of a fusion model of multimodal information to obtain sentiment understanding. In previous studies, scholars used the feature vector cascade method when fusing multimodal data at each time step in the middle layer. This method puts each modal information in the same position and does not distinguish between strong modal information and weak modal information among multiple modalities. At the same time, this method does not pay attention to the embedding characteristics of multimodal signals across the time dimension. In response to the above problems, this paper proposes a new method and model for processing multimodal signals, which takes into account the delay and hysteresis characteristics of multimodal signals across the time dimension. The purpose is to obtain a multimodal fusion feature emotion analysis representation. We evaluate our method on the multimodal sentiment analysis benchmark dataset CMU Multimodal Opinion Sentiment and Emotion Intensity Corpus (CMU-MOSEI). We compare our proposed method with the state-of-the-art model and show excellent results.

TCMT: Target-oriented Cross Modal Transformer for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Integrating color cues to improve multimodal sentiment analysis in social media