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Beyond the Mouth: Upper-Face Affective Cues in Audiovisual Sentence Recognition under Acoustic Uncertainty

arXiv:2606. 00670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Face-to-face speech comprehension is inherently multimodal, integrating acoustic signals with visible articulation, facial expression, head motion, and other socially relevant cues.

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Quality-Aware Multimodal Fusion Reveals Implicit Identity in Valence-Arousal Features

Conventional face recognition relies on static appearance cues and degrades in unconstrained settings with expression variation, occlusion, and poor lighting. We hypothesize that audiovisual expression dynamics carry identity-discriminative information complementary to static appearance, and that extracting this signal requires multimodal representations robust to the variable input quality of in-the-wild video.