Emotion as a Distribution: Joint Valence-Arousal Probability Learning for Speaker-Independent Multimodal Emotion Recognition
Human emotion is graded and frequently mixed, yet most multimodal recognizers collapse it onto a single hard label. We argue the recognizer should instead expose a distribution over affective space. Our text+speech system, alongside its categorical decision, emits a $9\times9$ probability matrix over the Valence-Arousa...