1 code implementation • 5 May 2023 • Lukas Christ, Shahin Amiriparian, Alice Baird, Alexander Kathan, Niklas Müller, Steffen Klug, Chris Gagne, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Eva-Maria Meßner, Andreas König, Alan Cowen, Erik Cambria, Björn W. Schuller
Participants predict the presence of spontaneous humour in a cross-cultural setting.
no code implementations • 28 Apr 2023 • Björn W. Schuller, Anton Batliner, Shahin Amiriparian, Alexander Barnhill, Maurice Gerczuk, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Chris Gagne, Alan S. Cowen, Nikola Lackovic, Marie-José Caraty, Claude Montacié
The ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses two different problems for the first time in a research competition under well-defined conditions: In the Emotion Share Sub-Challenge, a regression on speech has to be made; and in the Requests Sub-Challenges, requests and complaints need to be detected.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2023 • Dimitrios Kollias, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Alice Baird, Alan Cowen, Stefanos Zafeiriou
The fifth Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition is part of the respective ABAW Workshop which will be held in conjunction with IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2022 • Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Jeffrey A. Brooks, Christopher B. Gregory, Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen
This is the Proceedings of the ACII Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop and Competition (A-VB).
no code implementations • 14 Jul 2022 • Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Gauthier Gidel, Marco Jiralerspong, Eilif B. Muller, Kory Mathewson, Björn Schuller, Erik Cambria, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen
The first, ExVo-MultiTask, requires participants to train a multi-task model to recognize expressed emotions and demographic traits from vocal bursts.
3 code implementations • 7 Jul 2022 • Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Jeffrey A. Brooks, Christopher B. Gregory, Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen
The ACII Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition is focused on understanding multiple affective dimensions of vocal bursts: laughs, gasps, cries, screams, and many other non-linguistic vocalizations central to the expression of emotion and to human communication more generally.
1 code implementation • 23 Jun 2022 • Lukas Christ, Shahin Amiriparian, Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Alexander Kathan, Niklas Müller, Lukas Stappen, Eva-Maria Meßner, Andreas König, Alan Cowen, Erik Cambria, Björn W. Schuller
For this year's challenge, we feature three datasets: (i) the Passau Spontaneous Football Coach Humor (Passau-SFCH) dataset that contains audio-visual recordings of German football coaches, labelled for the presence of humour; (ii) the Hume-Reaction dataset in which reactions of individuals to emotional stimuli have been annotated with respect to seven emotional expression intensities, and (iii) the Ulm-Trier Social Stress Test (Ulm-TSST) dataset comprising of audio-visual data labelled with continuous emotion values (arousal and valence) of people in stressful dispositions.
no code implementations • 9 May 2022 • Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Sandra Zänkert, Alice Baird, Julian Konzok, Brigitte M. Kudielka, Björn W. Schuller
Stress is a major threat to well-being that manifests in a variety of physiological and mental symptoms.
2 code implementations • 3 May 2022 • Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Gauthier Gidel, Marco Jiralerspong, Eilif B. Muller, Kory Mathewson, Björn Schuller, Erik Cambria, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen
ExVo 2022, includes three competition tracks using a large-scale dataset of 59, 201 vocalizations from 1, 702 speakers.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2022 • Harry Coppock, Alican Akman, Christian Bergler, Maurice Gerczuk, Chloë Brown, Jagmohan Chauhan, Andreas Grammenos, Apinan Hasthanasombat, Dimitris Spathis, Tong Xia, Pietro Cicuta, Jing Han, Shahin Amiriparian, Alice Baird, Lukas Stappen, Sandra Ottl, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Anton Batliner, Cecilia Mascolo, Björn W. Schuller
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive humanitarian and economic damage.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2021 • Toby Godwin, Georgios Rizos, Alice Baird, Najla D. Al Futaisi, Vincent Brisse, Bjoern W. Schuller
We achieve this by measuring the change in predictive performance of a music mood/theme classifier after augmenting its training data with generated samples.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2021 • Alice Baird, Lukas Stappen, Lukas Christ, Lea Schumann, Eva-Maria Meßner, Björn W. Schuller
We utilise a Long Short-Term Memory, Recurrent Neural Network to explore the benefit of fusing these physiological signals with arousal as the target, learning from various audio, video, and textual based features.
1 code implementation • 25 Jul 2021 • Lukas Stappen, Lea Schumann, Benjamin Sertolli, Alice Baird, Benjamin Weigel, Erik Cambria, Björn W. Schuller
With this in mind, the MuSe-Toolbox provides the functionality to run exhaustive searches for meaningful class clusters in the continuous gold standards.
no code implementations • 4 May 2021 • Lukas Stappen, Alice Baird, Michelle Lienhart, Annalena Bätz, Björn Schuller
We investigate features extracted from these signals against various user engagement indicators including views, like/dislike ratio, as well as the sentiment of comments.
1 code implementation • 14 Apr 2021 • Lukas Stappen, Alice Baird, Lukas Christ, Lea Schumann, Benjamin Sertolli, Eva-Maria Messner, Erik Cambria, Guoying Zhao, Björn W. Schuller
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MuSe) 2021 is a challenge focusing on the tasks of sentiment and emotion, as well as physiological-emotion and emotion-based stress recognition through more comprehensively integrating the audio-visual, language, and biological signal modalities.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2021 • Björn W. Schuller, Anton Batliner, Christian Bergler, Cecilia Mascolo, Jing Han, Iulia Lefter, Heysem Kaya, Shahin Amiriparian, Alice Baird, Lukas Stappen, Sandra Ottl, Maurice Gerczuk, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Chloë Brown, Jagmohan Chauhan, Andreas Grammenos, Apinan Hasthanasombat, Dimitris Spathis, Tong Xia, Pietro Cicuta, Leon J. M. Rothkrantz, Joeri Zwerts, Jelle Treep, Casper Kaandorp
The INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge addresses four different problems for the first time in a research competition under well-defined conditions: In the COVID-19 Cough and COVID-19 Speech Sub-Challenges, a binary classification on COVID-19 infection has to be made based on coughing sounds and speech; in the Escalation SubChallenge, a three-way assessment of the level of escalation in a dialogue is featured; and in the Primates Sub-Challenge, four species vs background need to be classified.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2021 • Lukas Stappen, Alice Baird, Lea Schumann, Björn Schuller
Truly real-life data presents a strong, but exciting challenge for sentiment and emotion research.
1 code implementation • 7 Jan 2021 • Harry Coppock, Alexander Gaskell, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Alice Baird, Lyn Jones, Björn W. Schuller
Our main contributions are as follows: (I) We demonstrate the first attempt to diagnose COVID-19 using end-to-end deep learning from a crowd-sourced dataset of audio samples, achieving ROC-AUC of 0. 846; (II) Our model, the COVID-19 Identification ResNet, (CIdeR), has potential for rapid scalability, minimal cost and improving performance as more data becomes available.
1 code implementation • 30 Apr 2020 • Lukas Stappen, Alice Baird, Georgios Rizos, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Xinchen Du, Felix Hafner, Lea Schumann, Adria Mallol-Ragolta, Björn W. Schuller, Iulia Lefter, Erik Cambria, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Media (MuSe) 2020 is a Challenge-based Workshop focusing on the tasks of sentiment recognition, as well as emotion-target engagement and trustworthiness detection by means of more comprehensively integrating the audio-visual and language modalities.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2019 • Thomas Wiest, NIcholas Cummins, Alice Baird, Simone Hantke, Judith Dineley, Björn Schuller
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become exceedingly popular in a wide range of data-driven research fields, due in part to their success in image generation.