  We present M3ER, a learning-based method for emotion recognition from
multiple input modalities. Our approach combines cues from multiple
co-occurring modalities (such as face, text, and speech) and also is more
robust than other methods to sensor noise in any of the individual modalities.
M3ER models a novel, data-driven multiplicative fusion method to combine the
modalities, which learn to emphasize the more reliable cues and suppress others
on a per-sample basis. By introducing a check step which uses Canonical
Correlational Analysis to differentiate between ineffective and effective
modalities, M3ER is robust to sensor noise. M3ER also generates proxy features
in place of the ineffectual modalities. We demonstrate the efficiency of our
network through experimentation on two benchmark datasets, IEMOCAP and
CMU-MOSEI. We report a mean accuracy of 82.7% on IEMOCAP and 89.0% on
CMU-MOSEI, which, collectively, is an improvement of about 5% over prior work.
