Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Audio-Video Transformer Fusion with Cross Attention

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Autores principales: R, Joe Dhanith P, Venkatraman, Shravan, Sharma, Vigya, Malarvannan, Santhosh
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author R, Joe Dhanith P
Venkatraman, Shravan
Sharma, Vigya
Malarvannan, Santhosh
author_facet R, Joe Dhanith P
Venkatraman, Shravan
Sharma, Vigya
Malarvannan, Santhosh
contents Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to infer human affect by jointly modeling audio and visual cues; however, existing approaches often struggle with temporal misalignment, weakly discriminative feature representations, and suboptimal fusion of heterogeneous modalities. To address these challenges, we propose AVT-CA, an Audio-Video Transformer architecture with cross attention for robust emotion recognition. The proposed model introduces a hierarchical video feature representation that combines channel attention, spatial attention, and local feature extraction to emphasize emotionally salient regions while suppressing irrelevant information. These refined visual features are integrated with audio representations through an intermediate transformer-based fusion mechanism that captures interlinked temporal dependencies across modalities. Furthermore, a cross-attention module selectively reinforces mutually consistent audio-visual cues, enabling effective feature selection and noise-aware fusion. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets, CMU-MOSEI, RAVDESS, and CREMA-D, demonstrate that AVT-CA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving significant improvements in both accuracy and F1-score. Our source code is publicly available at https://github.com/shravan-18/AVTCA.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Audio-Video Transformer Fusion with Cross Attention
R, Joe Dhanith P
Venkatraman, Shravan
Sharma, Vigya
Malarvannan, Santhosh
Multimedia
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
F.2.2; I.2.7
Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) aims to infer human affect by jointly modeling audio and visual cues; however, existing approaches often struggle with temporal misalignment, weakly discriminative feature representations, and suboptimal fusion of heterogeneous modalities. To address these challenges, we propose AVT-CA, an Audio-Video Transformer architecture with cross attention for robust emotion recognition. The proposed model introduces a hierarchical video feature representation that combines channel attention, spatial attention, and local feature extraction to emphasize emotionally salient regions while suppressing irrelevant information. These refined visual features are integrated with audio representations through an intermediate transformer-based fusion mechanism that captures interlinked temporal dependencies across modalities. Furthermore, a cross-attention module selectively reinforces mutually consistent audio-visual cues, enabling effective feature selection and noise-aware fusion. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets, CMU-MOSEI, RAVDESS, and CREMA-D, demonstrate that AVT-CA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving significant improvements in both accuracy and F1-score. Our source code is publicly available at https://github.com/shravan-18/AVTCA.
title Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Audio-Video Transformer Fusion with Cross Attention
topic Multimedia
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
F.2.2; I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18552