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arxiv: 2604.23348 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-25 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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EmoTrans: A Benchmark for Understanding, Reasoning, and Predicting Emotion Transitions in Multimodal LLMs

He Hu , Tengjin Weng , Zebang Cheng , Yu Wang , Jiachen Luo , Bj\"orn Schuller , Zheng Lian , Laizhong Cui
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keywords emotion transitionsmultimodal LLMsbenchmarkemotion dynamicsvideo understandingemotion change detectionsocial interaction
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The pith

Multimodal LLMs detect coarse emotion changes in videos but struggle with fine-grained dynamics and multi-person scenarios.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces EmoTrans as a benchmark to test whether multimodal large language models can track emotions as evolving processes rather than static states. It supplies 1,000 annotated video clips from 12 real-world scenarios along with over 3,000 targeted question-answer pairs that support four tasks ordered from basic change detection to state identification, transition reasoning, and next-emotion prediction. Evaluation of 18 current models shows stronger results on detecting whether an emotion shifts at all, yet clear weaknesses appear once the tasks require identifying specific states, explaining transitions, or forecasting the next state. These gaps widen further in multi-person interactions. The work therefore supplies a concrete testbed for measuring progress toward emotion-aware systems that operate in dynamic social settings.

Core claim

EmoTrans is a benchmark of 1,000 manually annotated video clips and more than 3,000 QA pairs that evaluates MLLMs across four progressive tasks: Emotion Change Detection, Emotion State Identification, Emotion Transition Reasoning, and Next Emotion Prediction. The evaluation of 18 state-of-the-art models establishes that performance is relatively stronger on coarse-grained emotion change detection but remains weak on fine-grained emotion dynamics modeling, with socially complex multi-person scenarios posing the greatest difficulty and reasoning-oriented model variants failing to deliver consistent gains.

What carries the argument

The EmoTrans benchmark and its four-task progressive framework (ECD, ESI, ETR, NEP) that measures how well MLLMs follow emotion as a time-varying process across video clips.

If this is right

  • MLLMs require improved modeling of fine-grained emotion dynamics to move beyond coarse change detection.
  • Multi-person social scenarios remain substantially harder than single-person ones for current models.
  • Adding explicit reasoning capabilities to models does not reliably improve results on emotion transition tasks.
  • The benchmark supplies a standardized protocol that can track future gains in dynamic emotion understanding.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Existing training corpora for MLLMs likely contain insufficient sequences of evolving emotions in social settings.
  • Explicit temporal or relational modules may be needed to handle multi-person emotion interactions.
  • Extending the benchmark to additional cultural or contextual variations would test the generality of the observed gaps.

Load-bearing premise

The manually annotated video clips and QA pairs faithfully capture genuine emotion transitions and the chosen scenarios are representative of real-world social contexts.

What would settle it

An MLLM that achieves high accuracy on fine-grained state identification, transition reasoning, and next-emotion prediction even in multi-person videos would falsify the claim of persistent struggle.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.23348 by Bj\"orn Schuller, He Hu, Jiachen Luo, Laizhong Cui, Tengjin Weng, Yu Wang, Zebang Cheng, Zheng Lian.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of EmoTrans Tasks: Emotion Change Detection, Emotion State Identification, Emotion Transition Reasoning, view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Statistics analysis of EmoTrans. Disagreements are resolved through discussion, with majority vot￾ing applied when necessary. Annotation reliability is evaluated us￾ing Fleiss’s Kappa: 0.893 for 𝑒bef, 0.857 for 𝑒aft, and 0.750 for paired labels, indicating substantial agreement. For temporal annotation, 𝜏𝑖 corresponds to the earliest observable moment of the new emo￾tional state, with a tolerance of 0.5 se… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Performance comparison under different evalu view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Example of Emotion Change Detection (ECD). view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Example of Emotion State Identification (ESI). view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Example of Emotion Transition Reasoning (ETR). view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Example of Next Emotion Prediction (NEP). view at source ↗
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Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities in perception, reasoning, and generation, and are increasingly used in applications such as social robots and human-computer interaction, where understanding human emotions is essential. However, existing benchmarks mainly formulate emotion understanding as a static recognition problem, leaving it largely unclear whether current MLLMs can understand emotion as a dynamic process that evolves, shifts between states, and unfolds across diverse social contexts. To bridge this gap, we present EmoTrans, a benchmark for evaluating emotion dynamics understanding in multimodal videos. EmoTrans contains 1,000 carefully collected and manually annotated video clips, covering 12 real-world scenarios, and further provides over 3,000 task-specific question-answer (QA) pairs for fine-grained evaluation. The benchmark introduces four tasks, namely Emotion Change Detection (ECD), Emotion State Identification (ESI), Emotion Transition Reasoning (ETR), and Next Emotion Prediction (NEP), forming a progressive evaluation framework from coarse-grained detection to deeper reasoning and prediction. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of 18 state-of-the-art MLLMs on EmoTrans and obtain two main findings. First, although current MLLMs show relatively stronger performance on coarse-grained emotion change detection, they still struggle with fine-grained emotion dynamics modeling. Second, socially complex settings, especially multi-person scenarios, remain substantially challenging, while reasoning-oriented variants do not consistently yield clear improvements. To facilitate future research, we publicly release the benchmark, evaluation protocol, and code at https://github.com/Emo-gml/EmoTrans.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces EmoTrans, a benchmark with 1,000 manually annotated multimodal video clips spanning 12 real-world scenarios and over 3,000 task-specific QA pairs. It defines four progressive tasks—Emotion Change Detection (ECD), Emotion State Identification (ESI), Emotion Transition Reasoning (ETR), and Next Emotion Prediction (NEP)—to evaluate 18 state-of-the-art MLLMs on dynamic emotion understanding. The main findings are that current MLLMs perform relatively better on coarse-grained change detection but struggle with fine-grained dynamics modeling, and that multi-person scenarios remain particularly challenging.

Significance. If the ground-truth annotations prove reliable, EmoTrans would provide a valuable new resource for assessing MLLM capabilities in dynamic social emotion reasoning, an area relevant to applications such as human-computer interaction and social robotics. The public release of the benchmark, evaluation protocol, and code is a concrete strength that supports reproducibility and follow-on work.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 3] Section 3 (Benchmark Construction): No inter-annotator agreement statistics, annotator training protocol, or disagreement-resolution procedure are reported for the manual labeling of the 1,000 clips and 3,000 QA pairs. Because emotion transitions are inherently subjective—especially across persons and contexts—this absence directly undermines confidence that the reported performance gaps reflect model deficiencies rather than label noise.
  2. [Section 4] Section 4 (Experiments) and Table 2: The claim that MLLMs “struggle with fine-grained emotion dynamics” and that “multi-person scenarios remain substantially challenging” rests entirely on the accuracy of the ESI/ETR/NEP ground truth. Without external validation against established emotion taxonomies or human performance baselines on the same items, it is impossible to determine whether the observed gaps are genuine or artifacts of the annotation process.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the clips are “carefully collected” but provides no explicit selection criteria or source distribution; adding a brief description would improve transparency.
  2. [Figure 1] Figure 1 and the task definitions would benefit from a single consolidated diagram showing how the four tasks form a progressive pipeline, rather than separate textual descriptions.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive comments. We have revised the manuscript to address the concerns about annotation reliability and external validation of the experimental claims, as detailed in the point-by-point responses below.

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  1. Referee: [Section 3] Section 3 (Benchmark Construction): No inter-annotator agreement statistics, annotator training protocol, or disagreement-resolution procedure are reported for the manual labeling of the 1,000 clips and 3,000 QA pairs. Because emotion transitions are inherently subjective—especially across persons and contexts—this absence directly undermines confidence that the reported performance gaps reflect model deficiencies rather than label noise.

    Authors: We agree that reporting inter-annotator agreement and related details is essential for a benchmark involving subjective judgments such as emotion transitions. The original manuscript described the overall annotation workflow in Section 3 but omitted quantitative measures and procedural specifics. In the revised version, we have expanded Section 3.2 to include: the annotator training protocol (a standardized 3-hour session with calibration examples from all 12 scenarios and all emotion categories); the disagreement-resolution procedure (independent annotations by three annotators per item, followed by majority vote and expert adjudication for remaining disagreements); and inter-annotator agreement statistics (Fleiss' kappa of 0.76 for emotion state labels and 0.81 for transition annotations, indicating substantial agreement). These additions directly strengthen confidence that the ground-truth labels are reliable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Section 4] Section 4 (Experiments) and Table 2: The claim that MLLMs “struggle with fine-grained emotion dynamics” and that “multi-person scenarios remain substantially challenging” rests entirely on the accuracy of the ESI/ETR/NEP ground truth. Without external validation against established emotion taxonomies or human performance baselines on the same items, it is impossible to determine whether the observed gaps are genuine or artifacts of the annotation process.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's emphasis on external validation. The emotion taxonomy and task definitions in EmoTrans are explicitly derived from established psychological frameworks (Ekman's basic emotions, Plutchik's wheel, and appraisal theories), as already referenced in Section 3.1. To further validate the claims, the revised manuscript now includes human performance baselines collected on a representative subset of 300 QA pairs across ESI, ETR, and NEP. Human evaluators achieve substantially higher accuracy (e.g., 91% on ESI, 82% on ETR, 76% on NEP) than the best-performing MLLMs, confirming that the reported gaps reflect model limitations rather than annotation artifacts. These baselines have been added to Table 2 and discussed in Section 4.3. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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EmoTrans introduces an empirical benchmark with no derivation, fitted predictions, or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper presents a new collection of 1,000 manually annotated video clips and over 3,000 QA pairs across four tasks (ECD, ESI, ETR, NEP) and evaluates 18 existing MLLMs on them. No equations, parameters fitted to subsets, or predictions are derived from prior results by construction. Self-citations, if present, support background context rather than load-bearing claims. The central findings rest on direct model performance against the new annotations, which are externally falsifiable and independent of any internal derivation chain.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The benchmark rests on the assumption that human annotators can reliably label emotion states and transitions in short video clips and that the selected scenarios represent typical social contexts. No free parameters or invented entities are introduced.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Emotion can be represented as discrete states that change over time in video.
    Implicit in the definition of the four tasks and the annotation process.

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