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Main Authors: Richet, Nicolas, Belharbi, Soufiane, Aslam, Haseeb, Schadt, Meike Emilie, González-González, Manuela, Cortal, Gustave, Koerich, Alessandro Lameiras, Pedersoli, Marco, Finkel, Alain, Bacon, Simon, Granger, Eric
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12927
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author Richet, Nicolas
Belharbi, Soufiane
Aslam, Haseeb
Schadt, Meike Emilie
González-González, Manuela
Cortal, Gustave
Koerich, Alessandro Lameiras
Pedersoli, Marco
Finkel, Alain
Bacon, Simon
Granger, Eric
author_facet Richet, Nicolas
Belharbi, Soufiane
Aslam, Haseeb
Schadt, Meike Emilie
González-González, Manuela
Cortal, Gustave
Koerich, Alessandro Lameiras
Pedersoli, Marco
Finkel, Alain
Bacon, Simon
Granger, Eric
contents Systems for multimodal emotion recognition (ER) are commonly trained to extract features from different modalities (e.g., visual, audio, and textual) that are combined to predict individual basic emotions. However, compound emotions often occur in real-world scenarios, and the uncertainty of recognizing such complex emotions over diverse modalities is challenging for feature-based models. As an alternative, emerging large language models (LLMs) like BERT and LLaMA can rely on explicit non-verbal cues that may be translated from different non-textual modalities (e.g., audio and visual) into text. Textualization of modalities augments data with emotional cues to help the LLM encode the interconnections between all modalities in a shared text space. In such text-based models, prior knowledge of ER tasks is leveraged to textualize relevant non-verbal cues such as audio tone from vocal expressions, and action unit intensity from facial expressions. Since the pre-trained weights are publicly available for many LLMs, training on large-scale datasets is unnecessary, allowing to fine-tune for downstream tasks such as compound ER (CER). This paper compares the potential of text- and feature-based approaches for compound multimodal ER in videos. Experiments were conducted on the challenging C-EXPR-DB dataset in the wild for CER, and contrasted with results on the MELD dataset for basic ER. Our results indicate that multimodal textualization provides lower accuracy than feature-based models on C-EXPR-DB, where text transcripts are captured in the wild. However, higher accuracy can be achieved when the video data has rich transcripts. Our code is available.
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spellingShingle Textualized and Feature-based Models for Compound Multimodal Emotion Recognition in the Wild
Richet, Nicolas
Belharbi, Soufiane
Aslam, Haseeb
Schadt, Meike Emilie
González-González, Manuela
Cortal, Gustave
Koerich, Alessandro Lameiras
Pedersoli, Marco
Finkel, Alain
Bacon, Simon
Granger, Eric
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Systems for multimodal emotion recognition (ER) are commonly trained to extract features from different modalities (e.g., visual, audio, and textual) that are combined to predict individual basic emotions. However, compound emotions often occur in real-world scenarios, and the uncertainty of recognizing such complex emotions over diverse modalities is challenging for feature-based models. As an alternative, emerging large language models (LLMs) like BERT and LLaMA can rely on explicit non-verbal cues that may be translated from different non-textual modalities (e.g., audio and visual) into text. Textualization of modalities augments data with emotional cues to help the LLM encode the interconnections between all modalities in a shared text space. In such text-based models, prior knowledge of ER tasks is leveraged to textualize relevant non-verbal cues such as audio tone from vocal expressions, and action unit intensity from facial expressions. Since the pre-trained weights are publicly available for many LLMs, training on large-scale datasets is unnecessary, allowing to fine-tune for downstream tasks such as compound ER (CER). This paper compares the potential of text- and feature-based approaches for compound multimodal ER in videos. Experiments were conducted on the challenging C-EXPR-DB dataset in the wild for CER, and contrasted with results on the MELD dataset for basic ER. Our results indicate that multimodal textualization provides lower accuracy than feature-based models on C-EXPR-DB, where text transcripts are captured in the wild. However, higher accuracy can be achieved when the video data has rich transcripts. Our code is available.
title Textualized and Feature-based Models for Compound Multimodal Emotion Recognition in the Wild
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12927