Learning Annotation Consensus for Continuous Emotion Recognition

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Main Authors: Shoer, Ibrahim, Erzin, Engin
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Published: 2025
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Erzin, Engin
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Erzin, Engin
contents In affective computing, datasets often contain multiple annotations from different annotators, which may lack full agreement. Typically, these annotations are merged into a single gold standard label, potentially losing valuable inter-rater variability. We propose a multi-annotator training approach for continuous emotion recognition (CER) that seeks a consensus across all annotators rather than relying on a single reference label. Our method employs a consensus network to aggregate annotations into a unified representation, guiding the main arousal-valence predictor to better reflect collective inputs. Tested on the RECOLA and COGNIMUSE datasets, our approach outperforms traditional methods that unify annotations into a single label. This underscores the benefits of fully leveraging multi-annotator data in emotion recognition and highlights its applicability across various fields where annotations are abundant yet inconsistent.
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spellingShingle Learning Annotation Consensus for Continuous Emotion Recognition
Shoer, Ibrahim
Erzin, Engin
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In affective computing, datasets often contain multiple annotations from different annotators, which may lack full agreement. Typically, these annotations are merged into a single gold standard label, potentially losing valuable inter-rater variability. We propose a multi-annotator training approach for continuous emotion recognition (CER) that seeks a consensus across all annotators rather than relying on a single reference label. Our method employs a consensus network to aggregate annotations into a unified representation, guiding the main arousal-valence predictor to better reflect collective inputs. Tested on the RECOLA and COGNIMUSE datasets, our approach outperforms traditional methods that unify annotations into a single label. This underscores the benefits of fully leveraging multi-annotator data in emotion recognition and highlights its applicability across various fields where annotations are abundant yet inconsistent.
title Learning Annotation Consensus for Continuous Emotion Recognition
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21196