Representative Publications

(* Equal contribution; † Corresponding author)

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1. MERBench: A Unified Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Emotion Recognition
   Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Yong Ren, Hao Gu, Haiyang Sun, Lan Chen, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
   Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026 (First Author, SCI, CCF-A)

2. IRNet: Iterative Refinement Network for Noisy Partial Label Learning
   Zheng Lian, Mingyu Xu, Lan Chen, Licai Sun, Bin Liu, Lei Feng, Jianhua Tao
   Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025 (First Author, SCI, CCF-A)

3. GCNet: Graph Completion Network for Incomplete Multimodal Learning in Conversation
   Zheng Lian, Lan Chen, Licai Sun, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
   Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2023 (First Author, SCI, CCF-A)

4. AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
   Zheng Lian, Haoyu Chen, Lan Chen, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun, Yong Ren, Zebang Cheng, Bin Liu, Rui Liu, Xiaojiang Peng, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao
   ICML, 2025 (Oral, Top 1%) (First Author, CCF-A)

5. OV-MER: Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition
   Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun, Haoyu Chen, Lan Chen, Hao Gu, Zhuofan Wen, Shun Chen, Siyuan Zhang, Hailiang Yao, Bin Liu, Rui Liu, Shan Liang, Ya Li, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao
   ICML, 2025 (First Author, CCF-A)

6. EmoPrefer: Can Large Language Models Understand Human Emotion Preferences?
   Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Lan Chen, Haoyu Chen, Zebang Cheng, Fan Zhang, Ziyu Jia, Ziyang Ma, Fei Ma, Xiaojiang Peng, Jianhua Tao
   ICLR, 2026 (First Author, CCF-A)

7. PIRNet: Personality-enhanced Iterative Refinement Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
   Zheng Lian, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
   IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022 (First Author, SCI, CAAI-A)

8. CTNet: Conversational Transformer Network for Emotion Recognition
   Zheng Lian, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2021 (First Author, SCI, CAAI-A)

9. SMIN: Semi-supervised Multi-modal Interaction Network for Conversational Emotion Recognition
   Zheng Lian, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
   IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (IEEE TAFFC), 2022 (First Author, SCI, CAAI-A)

10. MER 2025: When affective computing meets large language models
    Zheng Lian, Rui Liu, Kele Xu, Bin Liu, Xuefei Liu, Yazhou Zhang, Xin Liu, Yong Li, Zebang Cheng, Haolin Zuo, Ziyang Ma, Xiaojiang Peng, Xie Chen, Ya Li, Erik Cambria, Guoying Zhao, Björn W Schuller, Jianhua Tao
    ACM Multimedia (Organize Grand Challenge), 2025 (First Author, CCF-A)

11. MER 2023: Multi-label Learning, Modality Robustness, and Semi-Supervised Learning
    Zheng Lian, Haiyang Sun, Licai Sun, Kang Chen, Mingyu Xu, Kexin Wang, Ke Xu, Yu He, Ying Li, Jinming Zhao, Ye Liu, Bin Liu, Jiangyan Yi, Meng Wang, Erik Cambria, Guoying Zhao, Björn W Schuller, Jianhua Tao
    ACM Multimedia (Organize Grand Challenge), 2023 (First Author, CCF-A)

12. GPT-4V with Emotion: A Zero-shot Benchmark for Generalized Emotion Recognition
    Zheng Lian, Licai Sun, Haiyang Sun, Kang Chen, Zhuofan Wen, Hao Gu, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
    Information Fusion, 2024 (First Author, SCI, CAAI-A)

13. VRA: Variational Rectified Activation for Out-of-distribution Detection
    Mingyu Xu, Zheng Lian†, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
    NeurIPS, 2023 (Corresponding Author, CCF-A)

14. ALIM: Adjusting Label Importance Mechanism for Noisy Partial Label Learning
    Mingyu Xu*, Zheng Lian*, Lei Feng, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
    NeurIPS, 2023 (Co-First Author, CCF-A)

15. SVFAP: Self-supervised Video Facial Affect Perceiver
    Licai Sun, Zheng Lian†, Kexin Wang, Yu He, Mingyu Xu, Haiyang Sun, Bin Liu†, Jianhua Tao†
    IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (IEEE TAFFC), 2024 (Corresponding Author, SCI, CAAI-A)

16. SarcasmBench: Towards Evaluating Large Language Models on Sarcasm Understanding
    Yazhou Zhang, Chunwang Zou, Zheng Lian†, Prayag Tiwari†, Jing Qin
    IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (IEEE TAFFC), 2025 (Corresponding Author, SCI, CAAI-A)

17. Efficient multimodal transformer with dual-level feature restoration for robust multimodal sentiment analysis
    Licai Sun, Zheng Lian, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao
    IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (IEEE TAFFC), 2023 (SCI, CAAI-A, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

18. Multimodal Spatiotemporal Representation for Automatic Depression Level Detection
    Mingyue Niu, Jianhua Tao, Bin Liu, Jian Huang, Zheng Lian
    IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (IEEE TAFFC), 2020 (SCI, CAAI-A, ESI Highly Cited Paper)