We propose a novel approach for First Impressions Recognition in terms of the Big Five personality-traits from short videos. The Big Five personality traits is a model to describe human personality using five broad categories: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness. We train two bi-modal end-to-end deep neural network architectures using temporally ordered audio and novel stochastic visual features from few frames, without over-fitting. We empirically show that the trained models perform exceptionally well, even after training from a small sub-portions of inputs. Our method is evaluated in ChaLearn LAP 2016 Apparent Personality Analysis (APA) competition using ChaLearn LAP APA2016 dataset and achieved excellent performance.
Here, we develop an audiovisual deep residual network for multimodal apparent personality trait recognition. The network is trained end-to-end for predicting the Big Five personality traits of people from their videos. That is, the network does not require any feature engineering or visual analysis such as face detection, face landmark alignment or facial expression recognition. Recently, the network won the third place in the ChaLearn First Impressions Challenge with a test accuracy of 0.9109.
The impression we make on others depends not only on what we say, but also, to a large extent, on how we say it. As a sub-branch of affective computing and social signal processing, impression recognition has proven critical in both human-human conversations and spoken dialogue systems. However, most research has studied impressions only from the signals expressed by the emitter, ignoring the response from the receiver. In this paper, we perform impression recognition using a proposed cross-domain architecture on the dyadic IMPRESSION dataset. This improved architecture makes use of cross-doma…
Universitat de Barcelona（巴塞罗那大学）；Computer Vision Center（计算机视觉中心）；Universitat Oberta de Catalunya（加泰罗尼亚开放大学）
Personality perception is implicitly biased due to many subjective factors, such as cultural, social, contextual, gender and appearance. Approaches developed for automatic personality perception are not expected to predict the real personality of the target, but the personality external observers attributed to it. Hence, they have to deal with human bias, inherently transferred to the training data. However, bias analysis in personality computing is an almost unexplored area. In this work, we study different possible sources of bias affecting personality perception, including emotions from fac…
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar（印度理工学院罗巴尔分校）；University of Canberra（堪培拉大学）
While personality traits have been extensively modeled as behavioral constructs, we model \textbf{\textit{job hirability}} as a \emph{personality construct}. On the {\emph{First Impressions Candidate Screening}} (FICS) dataset, we examine relationships among personality and hirability measures. Modeling hirability as a discrete/continuous variable with the \emph{big-five} personality traits as predictors, we utilize (a) apparent personality annotations, and (b) personality estimates obtained via audio, visual and textual cues for hirability prediction (HP). We also examine the efficacy of a tw…
NTT Computer and Data Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation（日本电信电话株式会社计算机与数据科学实验室）
There have been many attempts to build multimodal dialog systems that can respond to a question about given audio-visual information, and the representative task for such systems is the Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog (AVSD). Most conventional AVSD models adopt the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based video feature extractor to understand visual information. While a CNN tends to obtain both temporally and spatially local information, global information is also crucial for boosting video understanding because AVSD requires long-term temporal visual dependency and whole visual information. I…
University of Tübingen（图宾根大学）；MPI for Informatics（马克斯·普朗克信息学研究所）；MPI for Intelligent Systems（马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所）
Audio-visual generalised zero-shot learning for video classification requires understanding the relations between the audio and visual information in order to be able to recognise samples from novel, previously unseen classes at test time. The natural semantic and temporal alignment between audio and visual data in video data can be exploited to learn powerful representations that generalise to unseen classes at test time. We propose a multi-modal and Temporal Cross-attention Framework (\modelName) for audio-visual generalised zero-shot learning. Its inputs are temporally aligned audio and vis…
Over the last decade, online lecture videos have become increasingly popular and have experienced a meteoric rise during the pandemic. However, video-language research has primarily focused on instructional videos or movies, and tools to help students navigate the growing online lectures are lacking. Our first contribution is to facilitate research in the educational domain, by introducing AVLectures, a large-scale dataset consisting of 86 courses with over 2,350 lectures covering various STEM subjects. Each course contains video lectures, transcripts, OCR outputs for lecture frames, and optio…
Adobe Research（Adobe研究院）；University of Surrey（萨里大学）
We propose a self-supervised learning approach for videos that learns representations of both the RGB frames and the accompanying audio without human supervision. In contrast to images that capture the static scene appearance, videos also contain sound and temporal scene dynamics. To leverage the temporal and aural dimension inherent to videos, our method extends temporal self-supervision to the audio-visual setting and integrates it with multi-modal contrastive objectives. As temporal self-supervision, we pose playback speed and direction recognition in both modalities and propose intra- and …
Temporally-Aligned Evaluation for Audio-Driven Talking Head Generation
School of Business, University of New South Wales (UNSW)（新南威尔士大学商学院）；School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University（格里菲斯大学工程与环境学院）；Data61/CSIRO（Data61/澳大利亚国家科学委员会）
FoleyDesigner: Immersive Stereo Foley Generation with Precise Spatio-Temporal Alignment for Film Clips
Shanghai Film Academy, Shanghai University（上海大学上海电影学院）；Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Motion Picture Special Effects（上海电影特效工程技术研究中心）；University of Surrey, UK（英国萨里大学）
UniAVGen: Unified Audio and Video Generation with Asymmetric Cross-Modal Interactions
State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology（新型软件技术国家重点实验室）；Tencent Hunyuan（腾讯文英）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Shanghai AI Lab（上海人工智能实验室）
T2AV-Compass: Towards Unified Evaluation for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation
NJU-LINK Team, Nanjing University（南京大学NJU-LINK团队）；Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology（快手技术 Kling 团队）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
Dense Audio-Visual Event Localization under Cross-Modal Consistency and Multi-Temporal Granularity Collaboration
Hefei University of Technology（合肥工业大学）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）
The thud of a bouncing ball, the onset of speech as lips open -- when visual and audio events occur together, it suggests that there might be a common, underlying event that produced both signals. In this paper, we argue that the visual and audio components of a video signal should be modeled jointly using a fused multisensory representation. We propose to learn such a representation in a self-supervised way, by training a neural network to predict whether video frames and audio are temporally aligned. We use this learned representation for three applications: (a) sound source localization, i.…
Active speaker detection is an important component in video analysis algorithms for applications such as speaker diarization, video re-targeting for meetings, speech enhancement, and human-robot interaction. The absence of a large, carefully labeled audio-visual dataset for this task has constrained algorithm evaluations with respect to data diversity, environments, and accuracy. This has made comparisons and improvements difficult. In this paper, we present the AVA Active Speaker detection dataset (AVA-ActiveSpeaker) that will be released publicly to facilitate algorithm development and enabl…
Meerkat: Audio-Visual Large Language Model for Grounding in Space and Time
University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学帕克分校）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；Mila（米拉研究所）；Université de Montréal（蒙特利尔大学）；King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)（阿卜杜拉国王科技大学）
EAR: Enhancing Uni-Modal Representations for Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Video Parsing
School of Intelligent Engineering and Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（智能工程与自动化学院，北京邮电大学）；State Grid Corporation of China（国家电网公司）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（人工智能学院，北京邮电大学）
