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Emotion and Mood Recognition

Emotion and Mood Recognition is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1953. 23.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the recognition and analysis of emotions from various modalities such as facial expressions, physiological signals, and speech. It explores the use of deep learning, affective computing, and multimodal data for emotion recognition in applications including human-computer interaction.

  • Emotion Recognition
  • Multimodal Data
  • Facial Expression
  • Physiological Signals
  • Deep Learning
  • Affective Computing
  • Speech Emotion
  • Feature Extraction
  • Database
  • Human-Computer Interaction
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
23.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+113%
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Which countries lead Emotion and Mood Recognition research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.2k and 1.9k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 2.2k works
  2. 2 India 1.9k works
  3. 3 United States 619 works
  4. 4 Japan 300 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 201 works
  6. 6 South Korea 195 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 176 works
  8. 8 Germany 161 works
  9. 9 Italy 156 works
  10. 10 Canada 121 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 36.8%India: 31.0%United States: 10.4%Japan: 5.0%6 others listed: 16.9%37%largest
China2,199 · 36.8%India1,852 · 31.0%United States619 · 10.4%Japan300 · 5.0%6 others listed1,009 · 16.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Emotion and Mood Recognition research?

By volume in 2022–2025, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most Emotion and Mood Recognition research, followed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Vellore Institute of Technology University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 SRM Institute of Science and Technology India 70 works
  2. 2 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India 51 works
  3. 3 Vellore Institute of Technology University India 48 works
  4. 4 Saveetha University India 43 works
  5. 5 Southeast University China 38 works
  6. 6 Chitkara University India 36 works
  7. 7 South China University of Technology China 34 works
  8. 8 Chandigarh University India 33 works
  9. 9 Delhi Technological University India 33 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Emotion and Mood Recognition?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Emotion and Mood Recognition include Thomas S. Huang, Witold Pedrycz and Yu Qiao.

  1. 1 Thomas S. Huang 7.4k citations
  2. 2 Witold Pedrycz 5.4k citations
  3. 3 Yu Qiao 4.3k citations
  4. 4 C. L. Philip Chen 3.6k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Emotion and Mood Recognition research done?

The largest centres of Emotion and Mood Recognition research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vijayawada, Greater Noida and Chittagong.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 346 works
  2. 2 Chennai India 224 works
  3. 3 Shanghai China 158 works
  4. 4 Guangzhou China 123 works
  5. 5 Nanjing China 117 works
  6. 6 Pune India 112 works
  7. 7 Bengaluru India 110 works
  8. 8 Xi'an China 107 works
  9. 9 Tokyo Japan 107 works
  10. 10 Coimbatore India 100 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VijayawadaIN · 43.3 works12×
  2. Greater NoidaIN · 44.1 works8.9×
  3. ChittagongBD · 25.3 works8.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Emotion and Mood Recognition than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Emotion and Mood Recognition?

Among universities, judged by research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, University of Augsburg and Hangzhou Dianzi University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 33.04%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham: 51, 26.9%University of Augsburg: 11, 45.7%Hangzhou Dianzi University: 19, 49.7%South China University of Technology: 34, 42.2%Multimedia University: 17, 20.6%SRM Institute of Science and Technology: 70, 15.6%Lanzhou University: 21, 43.3%Tianjin Normal University: 10, 27.8%Central China Normal University: 19, 33.7%Delhi Technological University: 33, 24.9%Hangzhou Dianzi Univ…University of AugsburgSouth China Universi…Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India 71.926.9%12.1×51 +1800.0%
2University of Augsburg Germany 68.245.7%10.2×11 +171.5%
3Hangzhou Dianzi University China 64.849.7%7.3×19 +148.4%
4South China University of Technology China 61.142.2%4.0×34 +541.9%
5Multimedia University Malaysia 61.120.6%16.3×17 +296.9%
6SRM Institute of Science and Technology India 60.115.6%10.6×70
7Lanzhou University China 58.543.3%4.6×21 +510.5%
8Tianjin Normal University China 57.827.8%12.8×10 +229.8%
9Central China Normal University China 56.733.7%9.4×19
10Delhi Technological University India 56.624.9%15.0×33

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Emotion and Mood Recognition research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 113% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Emotion and Mood Recognition.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.