EmoGist: Efficient In-Context Learning for Visual Emotion Understanding (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | EmoGist is a training-free, in-context learning method for visual emotion classification . context-dependent definitions of emotion labels could allow more accurate predictions of emotions . |
| Approach: | They introduce EmoGist, a training-free, in-context learning method for performing visual emotion classification with LVLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves micro F1 scores and macro F1 with LVLMs. |
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