Team LEYA in 10th ABAW Competition: Multimodal Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition Approach

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Auteurs principaux: Ryumina, Elena, Axyonov, Alexandr, Sysoev, Dmitry, Abdulkadirov, Timur, Almetov, Kirill, Morozova, Yulia, Ryumin, Dmitry
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author Ryumina, Elena
Axyonov, Alexandr
Sysoev, Dmitry
Abdulkadirov, Timur
Almetov, Kirill
Morozova, Yulia
Ryumin, Dmitry
author_facet Ryumina, Elena
Axyonov, Alexandr
Sysoev, Dmitry
Abdulkadirov, Timur
Almetov, Kirill
Morozova, Yulia
Ryumin, Dmitry
contents Ambivalence/hesitancy recognition in unconstrained videos is a challenging problem due to the subtle, multimodal, and context-dependent nature of this behavioral state. In this paper, a multimodal approach for video-level ambivalence/hesitancy recognition is presented for the 10th ABAW Competition. The proposed approach integrates four complementary modalities: scene, face, audio, and text. Scene dynamics are captured with a VideoMAE-based model, facial information is encoded through emotional frame-level embeddings aggregated by statistical pooling, acoustic representations are extracted with EmotionWav2Vec2.0 and processed by a Mamba-based temporal encoder, and linguistic cues are modeled using fine-tuned transformer-based text models. The resulting unimodal embeddings are further combined using multimodal fusion models, including prototype-augmented variants. Experiments on the BAH corpus demonstrate clear gains of multimodal fusion over all unimodal baselines. The best unimodal configuration achieved an average MF1 of 70.02%, whereas the best multimodal fusion model reached 83.25%. The highest final test performance, 71.43%, was obtained by an ensemble of five prototype-augmented fusion models. The obtained results highlight the importance of complementary multimodal cues and robust fusion strategies for ambivalence/hesitancy recognition.
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spellingShingle Team LEYA in 10th ABAW Competition: Multimodal Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition Approach
Ryumina, Elena
Axyonov, Alexandr
Sysoev, Dmitry
Abdulkadirov, Timur
Almetov, Kirill
Morozova, Yulia
Ryumin, Dmitry
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Ambivalence/hesitancy recognition in unconstrained videos is a challenging problem due to the subtle, multimodal, and context-dependent nature of this behavioral state. In this paper, a multimodal approach for video-level ambivalence/hesitancy recognition is presented for the 10th ABAW Competition. The proposed approach integrates four complementary modalities: scene, face, audio, and text. Scene dynamics are captured with a VideoMAE-based model, facial information is encoded through emotional frame-level embeddings aggregated by statistical pooling, acoustic representations are extracted with EmotionWav2Vec2.0 and processed by a Mamba-based temporal encoder, and linguistic cues are modeled using fine-tuned transformer-based text models. The resulting unimodal embeddings are further combined using multimodal fusion models, including prototype-augmented variants. Experiments on the BAH corpus demonstrate clear gains of multimodal fusion over all unimodal baselines. The best unimodal configuration achieved an average MF1 of 70.02%, whereas the best multimodal fusion model reached 83.25%. The highest final test performance, 71.43%, was obtained by an ensemble of five prototype-augmented fusion models. The obtained results highlight the importance of complementary multimodal cues and robust fusion strategies for ambivalence/hesitancy recognition.
title Team LEYA in 10th ABAW Competition: Multimodal Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition Approach
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12848