arXiv AI
Aug 26

Mind the Student: Behavioral and Contextual Cues for Automated Engagement Prediction in Online Learning

The paper tackles the challenge of predicting student engagement from online tutoring videos, noting that engagement is a complex, multidimensional construct influenced by behavioral, emotional, and cognitive states. By analyzing the CASED dataset, the authors highlight the difficulty posed by high inter‑person variability and subjective annotations. They propose a multimodal framework that fuses implicit spatiotemporal features from pretrained video, audio, and image encoders with structured behavioral cues such as head pose, gaze, facial action units, emotion, and wavelet‑based audio features, integrating them via a Perceiver IO bottleneck and modeling participant personalities with variational posteriors. The system employs evidential regression and spectral‑normalized Gaussian process classification heads to provide uncertainty‑aware predictions, achieving competitive performance on the CASED challenge test set while offering well‑calibrated uncertainty metrics.

By Alperen Kantarci, Visvanathan Ramesh, Gemma Roig
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 20

Zero-Shot Vision-Language Models for Classroom Engagement Recognition: A Benchmark Study of Prompt Sensitivity and Cross-Dataset Generalization

Automated classroom engagement recognition holds substantial promise for scalable learning analytics, yet the suitability of modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for this task under zero-shot conditions remains largely unexplored. We present a systematic benchmark that evaluates five widely-used VLMs: CLIP, BLIP-VQA, GPT-4o, LLaVA-1.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

BioKD: Selective Physiology-to-Video Knowledge Distillation via Reliability Gate for Emotion Recognition

arXiv:2608. 06023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address the limitations of video-based emotion recognition under ambiguous or socially masked behavioral cues, as well as the poor deployability of physiological signals, this paper proposes a reliability-aware physiology-to-video knowledge distillation framework, termed BioKD.

By Bojing Hou, Ruohao Li, Yitong Zhu, Hongjun Liu, Luwen Yu, Yuyang Wang