arXiv AI

SVF-CR: Synchronized Visual-Facial Cross-Refinement for Multimodal Ambivalence and Hesitancy Recognition

arXiv:2607. 09417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ambivalence and hesitancy are subtle behavioral states that are expressed through a combination of verbal content, facial behavior, visual context, and acoustic cues.

arXiv AI
Jul 17

Team RAS in 11th ABAW Competition: Multimodal Ambivalence Recognition Approach

arXiv:2607. 14702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic recognition of ambivalence and hesitancy is challenging because these states may be expressed through inconsistent linguistic, acoustic, facial, and contextual patterns, while top-performing systems often rely on computationally expensive ensembles.

By Elena Ryumina (St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Maxim Markitantov (St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexandr Axyonov (St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Fedor Shchetinin (HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russia), Timur Abdulkadirov (St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Dmitry Ryumin (St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexey Karpov (St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

HUG-VIS: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence

HUG‑VIS is a unified multimodal benchmark for human‑centered visual intelligence, comprising 8,400 half‑body videos of 30 professional actors performing 280 emotion‑action prompts in Mandarin. The dataset provides synchronized video, audio, text, and alpha mattes for four tasks—human emotion recognition, video generation, voice cloning, and video matting—allowing evaluation of both open‑ and closed‑source models under a zero‑shot protocol. Results reveal that linguistic cues dominate emotion recognition, visual affect is weakest, and that automatic metrics and human judgments diverge in generation and cloning tasks, while motion‑related boundary fidelity remains a key challenge for matting.

By Fei Ma, Zebang Cheng, Minghui Li, Hongbo Xu, Yuyong Tan, Yihua Shao, Hanling Wang, Zhou Liu, Yuqing Gao, Dong Wang, Long Ma, Laizhong Cui, Nicu Sebe, Qi Tian
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

Modality Discrepancy Transformer for Ambivalence and Hesitancy Recognition

The paper introduces the Modality Discrepancy Transformer (MDT), a model designed to detect ambivalence and hesitancy in clinical videos by capturing cross‑modal disagreement across facial, vocal, and linguistic signals. MDT expands a 6‑token representation to 9 tokens that include modality embeddings, absolute‑difference features, and Hadamard‑product discrepancy features, which are processed through Transformer self‑attention with FiLM‑based text conditioning and LoRA fine‑tuning. On the BAH dataset from the 3rd ABAW Challenge, MDT achieves a Macro F1 score of 0.7408 on the labelled test split and 0.7368 on the private leaderboard, surpassing the strongest baseline by over 10 points while training in under 20 minutes on a single GPU.

By Shiyu Luo, Yu Wang, Jiawen Huang, Zhaoxiang Xiao, Chenxi Huang, Qi Zhang, Bin Liu