Audio-Visual Attention Networks for Emotion Recognition

We present a spatiotemporal attention based multimodal deep neural networks for dimensional emotion recognition in multimodal audio-visual video sequence. To learn the temporal attention that discriminatively focuses on emotional sailient parts within speech audios, we formulate the temporal attention network using deep neural networks (DNNs). In addition, to learn the spatiotemporal attention that selectively focuses on emotional sailient parts within facial videos, the spatiotemporal encoder-decoder network is formulated using Convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM) modules, and learned implicitly without any pixel-level annotations. By leveraging the spatiotemporal attention, the 3D convolutional neural networks (3D-CNNs) is also formulated to robustly recognize the dimensional emotion in facial videos. Furthermore, to exploit multimodal information, we fuse the audio and video features to emotion regression model. The experimental results show that our method can achieve the state-of-the-art results in dimensional emotion recognition with the highest concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) on AV+EC 2017 dataset.