arXiv:2607. 12774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article presents our results for the 11th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) competition.
By Aleksei Bakin, Andrey V. Savchenko
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.
arXiv:2606. 30646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech recruits the same executive, attentional, and working memory processes underlying instrumental activities of daily living, or IADLs, providing a non-invasive proxy for cognitive assessment.
By Chukwuemeka Ugwu, Oluwafemi Richard Oyeleke
arXiv:2606. 07309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-following audio language models (ALMs) can be augmented with explicit acoustic cues, yet it remains unclear whether such cues are used in a grounded way when the raw audio is already available.
By Iosif Tsangko, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Bj\"orn W. Schuller
arXiv:2608. 03920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans recognize a musical passage even when it is shifted in time or transposed in pitch, indicating a notion of equivariance in the representation space.
By Zixun Guo, Simon Dixon
arXiv:2606. 02679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal systems often benefit from combining information across language, sound, and visual streams, but this benefit is not guaranteed.
By Jiyuan Liu, Liangwei Nathan Zheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Xinpei Wang, Weitong Chen