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    Area of Science:

    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Affective Computing
    • Machine Learning

    Background:

    • Multimodal emotion recognition is crucial for improving user experience in human-computer interaction.
    • Existing research faces challenges due to inconsistent feature extraction, evaluation protocols, and experimental settings, hindering fair comparisons.
    • This inconsistency impedes the field's overall advancement.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce MERBench, a unified evaluation benchmark for multimodal emotion recognition.
    • To assess key techniques like feature selection, multimodal fusion, robustness analysis, fine-tuning, and pre-training.
    • To provide clear guidance for future research and identify promising directions.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of MERBench, a standardized evaluation framework.
    • Evaluation of common techniques within the MERBench framework.
    • Introduction of the MER2023 dataset for Chinese language emotion recognition.

    Main Results:

    • MERBench enables fair and comprehensive comparisons of multimodal emotion recognition algorithms.
    • Evaluation results highlight promising research avenues.
    • The MER2023 dataset supports research in multi-label, noise-robust, and semi-supervised learning.

    Conclusions:

    • MERBench addresses the critical need for standardized evaluation in multimodal emotion recognition.
    • The benchmark and new dataset will accelerate progress in the field.
    • Researchers are encouraged to adopt MERBench for consistent and reproducible results.