Visual Affect Analysis: Predicting Emotions of Image Viewers with Vision-Language Models
Authors: Filip Nowicki, Hubert Marciniak, Jakub Łączkowski, et al.
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00123
Summary: Benchmarks nine vision-language models on three validated affective image datasets for emotion classification and rating prediction, showing good alignment with human judgments overall but weaker performance on finer affective nuance.
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