3D visual grounding (3DVG), which aims to correlate a natural language description with the target object within a 3D scene, is a significant yet challenging task. Despite recent advancements in this domain, existing approaches commonly encounter a shortage: a limited amount and diversity of text-3D pairs available for training. Moreover, they fall short in effectively leveraging different contextual clues (e.g., rich spatial relations within the 3D visual space) for grounding. To address these limitations, we propose AugRefer, a novel approach for advancing 3D visual grounding. AugRefer introduces cross-modal augmentation designed to extensively generate diverse text-3D pairs by placing objects into 3D scenes and creating accurate and semantically rich descriptions using foundation models. Notably, the resulting pairs can be utilized by any existing 3DVG methods for enriching their training data. Besides, AugRefer presents a language-spatial adaptive decoder that effectively adapts the potential referring objects based on the language description and various 3D spatial relations. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets clearly validate the effectiveness of AugRefer.

Despite their strong performance in multimodal emotion reasoning, existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often overlook the scenarios involving emotion conflicts, where emotional cues from different modalities are inconsistent. To fill this gap, we first introduce CA-MER, a new benchmark designed to examine MLLMs under realistic emotion conflicts. It consists of three subsets: video-aligned, audio-aligned, and consistent, where only one or all modalities reflect the true emotion. However, evaluations on our CA-MER reveal that current state-of-the-art emotion MLLMs systematically over-rely on audio signal during emotion conflicts, neglecting critical cues from visual modality. To mitigate this bias, we propose MoSEAR, a parameter-efficient framework that promotes balanced modality integration. MoSEAR consists of two modules: (1)MoSE, modality-specific experts with a regularized gating mechanism that reduces modality bias in the fine-tuning heads; and (2)AR, an attention reallocation mechanism that rebalances modality contributions in frozen backbones during inference. Our framework offers two key advantages: it mitigates emotion conflicts and improves performance on consistent samples-without incurring a trade-off between audio and visual modalities. Experiments on multiple benchmarks-including MER2023, EMER, DFEW, and our CA-MER-demonstrate that MoSEAR achieves state-of-the-art performance, particularly under modality conflict conditions.

This paper presents our solution for the Micro-Expression Visual Question Answering (ME-VQA) task in the 2025 Facial Micro-Expression Grand Challenge (MEGC). To address the limitations of traditional micro-expression recognition (MER) methods in dynamic modeling, semantic interpretation, and natural language interaction, we propose Emotion-Qwen-VL, a fully fine-tuned multimodal large language model tailored for micro-expression understanding. Specifically, we construct a structured, instruction-based QA dataset that reformulates emotion categories and action unit (AU) annotations into natural language QA pairs, covering classification, AU detection, and causal reasoning. We then adopt a full-parameter fine-tuning strategy to guide Qwen2.5-VL in learning fine-grained temporal facial dynamics and their emotional semantics. Experimental results on the MEGC 2025 test set demonstrate that Emotion-Qwen-VL outperforms strong baselines such as Qwen2.5-VL and QVQ across multiple dimensions, including coarse-grained macro-expression classification, fine-grained micro-expression classification, and language generation. Our results highlight the effectiveness, interpretability, and adaptation potential of large models in micro-expression understanding. The code is available at: https://github.com/2308623956/MEGC2025.

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) has gained considerable attention due to its importance in human-computer interaction. In ERC task, the combination of multimodal information and contextual information is necessary since it can help the model understand emotional changes in the context from multiple perspectives. As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown the superiority in relation modeling, many graph-based methods have been proposed to improve the performance of emotion recognition by utilizing the edges to mine the contextual relationship and multimodal relationship in a conversation. However, the existence of numerous redundant edges and excessively complex modality interaction in the graph hinders the model from capturing the truly effective dependency information for emotion recognition. In this paper, we propose a Hypergraph based Contextual Relationship Modeling Method (HyperCRM) to carry out the ERC task. HyperCRM models a conversation as a hypergraph instead of a graph, which defines two types of hyperedges, namely speaker-level hyperedge and sequence-level hyperedge, to represent the contextual relationship within the same speaker and the local sequence of the conversation, respectively. Multimodal information is leveraged here as the node feature representation by the feature concatenation. In addition, an improved hypergraph convolution method is designed to capture the long-range contextual information by three-stage information propagation in the hypergraph, including node-hyperedge, hyperedge-hyperedge and node-hyperedge. The extensive experiments on two public datasets shows the new State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) results, to further demonstrate that the proposed method can simply make use of the multimodal information and effectively model the complex contextual relationships in the conversation.