IEEE FG’26 BlEmoRe Competition on Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Deadline: Early March 2026

Participate in the IEEE FG’26 BlEmoRe Competition to advance multimodal blended emotion recognition with a novel dataset and challenging evaluation metrics.

The IEEE FG’26 BlEmoRe Competition is calling for submissions to advance the recognition of multimodal blended emotional expressions. Humans often experience multiple emotions simultaneously, and this competition aims to bridge the gap in emotion recognition research by introducing a novel dataset of multimodal emotion expressions.

Key aspects of the competition include:

• A novel dataset containing both single emotions and blended emotions conveyed with similar and varying proportions.
• Two evaluation metrics: ACCpresence and ACCsalience.
• Training data and unlabelled test data available on Zenodo.
• Baseline approaches and evaluation code available on GitHub.

Important dates:

• Results submission: Early March 2026
• Paper submission: Mid March 2026
• Conference: 25-29 May 2026

Tags: Multimodal Emotion Recognition, IEEE FG’26, BlEmoRe Competition, Emotion Recognition Research, Machine Learning, AI Research