arxivcs.CV2026-07-11
Benchmarking Dynamic Affective Reasoning: A Viewer-Centric Video Emotion Dataset
Zhiyan Zhang, Peipei Song, Jinpeng Hu, Jingyang Jia, Xun Yang, Xiaojun Chang
Video emotion analysis is typically framed as a static classification problem, treating each clip as an independent labeled unit. However, such a formulation overlooks a key psychological fact: emotions change as a result of cumulative reactions to consecutive causal events. To b…