Faces of Emotion: Investigating How Generative AI Responds to Human Feelings
Abstract: This talk examines how generative AI systems respond to different human emotions and how these emotions influence the kinds of faces the models produce. By generating large sets of portraits across various emotional expressions, the study looks at how factors such as age, gender, and ethnicity emerge in the outputs of several widely used text-to-image models. Using established tools to automatically identify demographic attributes, the work explores the relationship between emotional prompts and the demographic patterns that appear in the generated images. The goal is to provide an accessible view of how AI interprets human emotions and how those interpretations shape the distributions of the faces it creates.
Short bio: Mengting Wei is now a PhD student in University of Oulu where she works in the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS) under the supervision of Prof. Guoying Zhao. She is also a PhD student in European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), co-supervised by Prof. Nuria Oliver. Previously, she graduated from Southeast University with a master degree, supervised by Prof. Wenming Zheng. She received her bechelor degree from Hebei University of Technology. Her current research interests lie at face generation and editing.
Presenter: Mengting Wei
Date: 2025-12-10 10:00 (CET)
Location: Oficinas ELLIS Alicante, Muelle Pte., 5 – Edificio A, Alicante 03001, Alicante ES
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