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EmotiCon: Context-Aware Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Frege's Principle

14 Mar 2020CVPR 2020 6arXiv:2003.06692archive 2025-07-28

Trisha Mittal, Pooja Guhan, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Rohan Chandra, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha

We present EmotiCon, a learning-based algorithm for context-aware perceived human emotion recognition from videos and images. Motivated by Frege's Context Principle from psychology, our approach combines three interpretations of context for emotion recognition. Our first interpretation is based on using multiple modalities(e.g. faces and gaits) for emotion recognition. For the second interpretation, we gather semantic context from the input image and use a self-attention-based CNN to encode this information. Finally, we use depth maps to model the third interpretation related to socio-dynamic interactions and proximity among agents. We demonstrate the efficiency of our network through experiments on EMOTIC, a benchmark dataset. We report an Average Precision (AP) score of 35.48 across 26 classes, which is an improvement of 7-8 over prior methods. We also introduce a new dataset, GroupWalk, which is a collection of videos captured in multiple real-world settings of people walking. We report an AP of 65.83 across 4 categories on GroupWalk, which is also an improvement over prior methods.

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Emotion RecognitionEmotion Recognition in ContextMultimodal Emotion Recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Emotion Recognition in Context CAER EmotiCon Accuracy 88.65 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Context EMOTIC EmotiCon (Depth-based) mAP 35.48 #2 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Recognition in Context EMOTIC EmotiCon (GCN) mAP 32.03 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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