Accommodating Missing Modalities in Time-Continuous Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Autor: Vazquez-Rodriguez, Juan, Lefebvre, Grégoire, Cumin, Julien, Crowley, James L.
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Sep 2023, Cambridge (MA), United States
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Decades of research indicate that emotion recognition is more effective when drawing information from multiple modalities. But what if some modalities are sometimes missing? To address this problem, we propose a novel Transformer-based architecture for recognizing valence and arousal in a time-continuous manner even with missing input modalities. We use a coupling of cross-attention and self-attention mechanisms to emphasize relationships between modalities during time and enhance the learning process on weak salient inputs. Experimental results on the Ulm-TSST dataset show that our model exhibits an improvement of the concordance correlation coefficient evaluation of 37% when predicting arousal values and 30% when predicting valence values, compared to a late-fusion baseline approach.
Databáze: arXiv