Graph-based Modality Alignment for Robustness in Conversational Emotion Recognition

Poster presentation

Venue
IEEE ICASSP 2026
Author role
First author
Year
2026.05

Research approach

Encoded speaker and modality relationships in a heterogeneous graph and aligned modalities for conversational emotion recognition.

Results

Weighted F1: 73.13% on IEMOCAP and 68.99% on MELD. Audio-only IEMOCAP reaches 60.26%; full-input and missing-modality comparisons use different baselines.

Weighted F1 (%) with full and missing inputs
Evaluation setting Baseline Proposed model
IEMOCAP, all inputs 68.99 73.13
MELD, all inputs 66.75 68.99
IEMOCAP, audio only 54.09 60.26
InterpretationWeighted F1, averaged over 10 random splits. The full-input baseline is Transformer; the audio-only baseline is GRACE. IEMOCAP: 73.13 with all inputs and 60.26 with audio only.
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