Continuous-Time Audiovisual Fusion with Recurrence vs. Attention for In-The-Wild Affect Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13285v1
• Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:22:56 GMT
• Title: Continuous-Time Audiovisual Fusion with Recurrence vs. Attention for In-The-Wild Affect Recognition
• Authors: Vincent Karas, Mani Kumar Tellamekala, Adria Mallol-Ragolta, Michel Valstar, Bj\"orn W. Schuller
• Abstract summary: We present our submission to the 3rd Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) challenge. Recurrence and attention are the two widely used sequence modelling mechanisms in the literature. We show that LSTM-RNNs can outperform the attention models when coupled with low-complex CNN backbones.
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• Abstract: In this paper, we present our submission to 3rd Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) challenge. Learningcomplex interactions among multimodal sequences is critical to recognise dimensional affect from in-the-wild audiovisual data. Recurrence and attention are the two widely used sequence modelling mechanisms in the literature. To clearly understand the performance differences between recurrent and attention models in audiovisual affect recognition, we present a comprehensive evaluation of fusion models based on LSTM-RNNs, self-attention and cross-modal attention, trained for valence and arousal estimation. Particularly, we study the impact of some key design choices: the modelling complexity of CNN backbones that provide features to the the temporal models, with and without end-to-end learning. We trained the audiovisual affect recognition models on in-the-wild ABAW corpus by systematically tuning the hyper-parameters involved in the network architecture design and training optimisation. Our extensive evaluation of the audiovisual fusion models shows that LSTM-RNNs can outperform the attention models when coupled with low-complex CNN backbones and trained in an end-to-end fashion, implying that attention models may not necessarily be the optimal choice for continuous-time multimodal emotion recognition.

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