Survey of Deep Learning Based Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Multimodal emotion recognition aims to recognize human emotional states through different modalities related to human emotion expression such as audio, vision, text, etc. This topic is of great importance in the fields of human-computer interaction, a.pngicial intelligence, affective computing, etc., and has attracted much attention. In view of the great success of deep learning methods developed in recent years in various tasks, a variety of deep neural networks have been used to learn high-level emotional feature representations for multimodal emotion recog-nition. In order to systematically summarize the research advance of deep learning methods in the field of multi-modal emotion recognition, this paper aims to present comprehensive analysis and summarization on recent multi-modal emotion recognition literatures based on deep learning. First, the general framework of multimodal emotion recognition is given, and the commonly used multimodal emotional dataset is introduced. Then, the principle of representative deep learning techniques and its advance in recent years are briefly reviewed. Subsequently, this paper focuses on the advance of two key steps in multimodal emotion recognition: emotional feature extraction methods related to audio, vision, text, etc., including hand-crafted feature extraction and deep feature extraction; multi-modal information fusion strategies integrating different modalities. Finally, the challenges and opportunities in this field are analyzed, and the future development direction is pointed out.