The paper authored by Dr. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela received the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2026), held in Mexico from September 7 to 10, 2026. The study demonstrates how multimodal emotions are coordinated during dyadic interactions by independently estimating emotions from multiple sensory signals, including facial expressions, speech, and semantic information.
- Von Ralph Dane M. Herbuela, Haifeng Zhang, and Yukie Nagai, “AffexTrace2D: A Modality-Preserving System for Facial, Vocal, and Semantic Affect in Dyadic Interaction,” in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, September 7-10, 2026. (Best Paper Award)
