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FindingEmo: An Image Dataset for Emotion Recognition in the Wild

arXiv 2402.01355 ↗First posted 2 Feb 2024cs.CV cs.AIcited by 20

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Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce FindingEmo, a new image dataset containing annotations for 25k images, specifically tailored to Emotion Recognition. Contrary to existing datasets, it focuses on complex scenes depicting multiple people in various naturalistic, social settings, with images being annotated as a whole, thereby going beyond the traditional focus on faces or single individuals. Annotated dimensions include Valence, Arousal and Emotion label, with annotations gathered using Prolific. Together with the annotations, we release the list of URLs pointing to the original images, as well as all associated source code.

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  1. 2024MMIU: Multimodal Multi-image Understanding for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Modelscited by 61
  2. 2025EmotiCrafter: Text-to-Emotional-Image Generation based on Valence-Arousal Modelcited by 23
  3. 2025EmoArt: A Multidimensional Dataset for Emotion-Aware Artistic Generationcited by 10
  4. 2025EmoVerse: A MLLMs-Driven Emotion Representation Dataset for Interpretable Visual Emotion Analysiscited by 6
  5. 2025EmoNet-Face: An Expert-Annotated Benchmark for Synthetic Emotion Recognitioncited by 5
  6. 2025EmoFeedback2: Reinforcement of Continuous Emotional Image Generation via LVLM-based Reward and Textual Feedbackcited by 5
  7. 2026EEmo-Logic: A Unified Dataset and Multi-Stage Framework for Comprehensive Image-Evoked Emotion Assessmentcited by 3
  8. 2025From Pixels to Feelings: Aligning MLLMs with Human Cognitive Perception of Imagescited by 2
  9. 2025Are Vision Language Models Cross-Cultural Theory of Mind Reasoners?cited by 1
  10. 2026CogBlender: Towards Continuous Cognitive Intervention in Text-to-Image Generationcited by 1
  11. 2026EmoScene: A Dual-space Dataset for Controllable Affective Image Generationcited by 1
  12. 2024Enhancing Computer Vision with Knowledge: a Rummikub Case Studycited by 0
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  1. 2025Assessing the Alignment of Popular CNNs to the Brain for Valence Appraisalcited by 0
  2. 2026Visual Affect Analysis: Predicting Emotions of Image Viewers with Vision-Language Modelscited by 0
  3. 2026GAViD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Context-Aware Group Affect Recognition from Videoscited by 0
  4. 2026MultiEmo-Bench: Multi-label Visual Emotion Analysis for Multi-modal Large Language Modelscited by 0
  5. 2026Attribute-Grounded Selective Reasoning for Artwork Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Modelscited by 0
  6. 2026Dimensional Distribution Emotion State: Leveraging Valence and Arousal as a Common Embedding Space for Visual Emotion Analysiscited by 0
  7. 2026ArtECulture: Benchmarking Culture-Conditioned Visual Emotion Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Modelscited by 0
  8. 2026ArtSociety: Multi-Agent Multimodal Collaboration for Art Emotion Understandingcited by 0