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The Many Faces of Anger: A Multicultural Video Dataset of Negative Emotions in the Wild (MFA-Wild)

10 Dec 2021arXiv:2112.05267archive 2025-07-28

Roya Javadi, Angelica Lim

The portrayal of negative emotions such as anger can vary widely between cultures and contexts, depending on the acceptability of expressing full-blown emotions rather than suppression to maintain harmony. The majority of emotional datasets collect data under the broad label ``anger", but social signals can range from annoyed, contemptuous, angry, furious, hateful, and more. In this work, we curated the first in-the-wild multicultural video dataset of emotions, and deeply explored anger-related emotional expressions by asking culture-fluent annotators to label the videos with 6 labels and 13 emojis in a multi-label framework. We provide a baseline multi-label classifier on our dataset, and show how emojis can be effectively used as a language-agnostic tool for annotation.

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Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity PredictionEmotion ClassificationEmotion Recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Emotion Classification MFA MLKNN F-F1 score (Comb.) 0.34 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA MLKNN F-F1 score (NA) 0.42 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA MLKNN F-F1 score (Persian) 0.4 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA MLKNN V-F1 score (Comb.) 0.39 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA MLKNN V-F1 score (NA) 0.42 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA MLKNN V-F1 score (Persian) 0.40 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA CC - XGB F-F1 score (Comb.) 0.33 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA CC - XGB F-F1 score (NA) 0.42 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA CC - XGB F-F1 score (Persian) 0.28 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA CC - XGB V-F1 score (Comb.) 0.36 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA CC - XGB V-F1 score (NA) 0.4 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Emotion Classification MFA CC - XGB V-F1 score (Persian) 0.33 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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