Xing Fu
Publications
InCarEmo: A Multimodal Dataset for In-Cabin Emotion Recognition and Driver State Monitoring
Understanding driver emotion and state is critical for the next generation of intelligent in-cabin systems that ensure safety and enhance human-vehicle interaction. However, existing public datasets for in-cabin affective computing are largely limited to visual modalities and rarely include conversational information, making it difficult to capture the linguistic and interactive cues underlying driver emotion. To address these gaps, we introduce InCarEmo, a multimodal dataset for in-cabin emotion recognition and driver state monitoring. InCarEmo integrates RGB and infrared video, in-cabin audio, and dialogue text collected from scripted in-cabin scenarios designed to simulate realistic driver behaviors, covering diverse lighting conditions and driving contexts. The dataset supports three primary tasks: 1) multimodal emotion recognition, 2) fatigue detection, and 3) distraction monitoring. In addition to the original Chinese data, we construct an auxiliary English benchmark to support preliminary cross-lingual evaluation. We provide a unified benchmark with extensive baseline results across unimodal and multimodal methods, including analyses under modality-missing and noise conditions. Experimental results demonstrate the benefits of multimodal fusion and reveal remaining challenges under real-world noise and low-light conditions. By releasing InCarEmo, we aim to establish a comprehensive foundation for robust, interpretable, and human-centric in-cabin affective understanding, promoting safer and more empathetic driver-vehicle interaction.
Text-Driven Emotionally Continuous Talking Face Generation
Talking Face Generation (TFG) strives to create realistic and emotionally expressive digital faces. While previous TFG works have mastered the creation of naturalistic facial movements, they typically express a fixed target emotion in synthetic videos and lack the ability to exhibit continuously changing and natural expressions like humans do when conveying information. To synthesize realistic videos, we propose a novel task called Emotionally Continuous Talking Face Generation (EC-TFG), which takes a text segment and an emotion description with varying emotions as driving data, aiming to generate a video where the person speaks the text while reflecting the emotional changes within the description. Alongside this, we introduce a customized model, i.e., Temporal-Intensive Emotion Modulated Talking Face Generation (TIE-TFG), which innovatively manages dynamic emotional variations by employing Temporal-Intensive Emotion Fluctuation Modeling, allowing it to provide emotion variation sequences corresponding to the input text to drive continuous facial expression changes in synthesized videos. Extensive evaluations demonstrate our method's exceptional ability to produce smooth emotion transitions and uphold high-quality visuals and motion authenticity across diverse emotional states.
OP-Bench: Benchmarking Over-Personalization for Memory-Augmented Personalized Conversational Agents
Memory-augmented conversational agents enable personalized interactions using long-term user memory and have gained substantial traction. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on whether agents can recall and apply user information, while overlooking whether such personalization is used appropriately. In fact, agents may overuse personal information, producing responses that feel forced, intrusive, or socially inappropriate to users. We refer to this issue as \emph{over-personalization}. In this work, we formalize over-personalization into three types: Irrelevance, Repetition, and Sycophancy, and introduce \textbf{OP-Bench} a benchmark of 1,700 verified instances constructed from long-horizon dialogue histories. Using \textbf{OP-Bench}, we evaluate multiple large language models and memory-augmentation methods, and find that over-personalization is widespread when memory is introduced. Further analysis reveals that agents tend to retrieve and over-attend to user memories even when unnecessary. To address this issue, we propose \textbf{Self-ReCheck}, a lightweight, model-agnostic memory filtering mechanism that mitigates over-personalization while preserving personalization performance. Our work takes an initial step toward more controllable and appropriate personalization in memory-augmented dialogue systems.