A Joint Cross-Attention Model for Audio-Visual Fusion in Dimensional Emotion Recognition
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Abstract
Multimodal emotion recognition has recently gained much attention since it can leverage diverse and complementary modalities, such as audio, visual, and biosignals. However, most state-of-the- art audio-visual (A-V) fusion methods rely on recurrent networks or conventional attention mechanisms that do not effectively leverage the complementary nature of A-V modalities. This paper focuses on dimensional emotion recognition based on the fusion of facial and vocal modalities extracted from videos. We propose a joint cross-attention fusion model that can effectively exploit the complementary inter-modal relationships, allowing for an accurate prediction of valence and arousal. In particular, this model computes cross-attention weights based on the correlation between joint feature representations and individual modalities. By deploying a joint A-V feature representation into the cross-attention module, the performance of our fusion model improves significantly over the vanilla cross-attention module. Experimental results <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> on the AffWild2 dataset highlight the robustness of our proposed A-V fusion model. It has achieved a concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) of 0.374 (0.663) and 0.363 (0.584) for valence and arousal, respectively, on the test set (validation set). This represents a significant improvement over the baseline for the third challenge of Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild 2022 (ABAW3) competition, with a CCC of 0.180 (0.310) and 0.170 (0.170).
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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