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AGCD-Net: Attention Guided Context Debiasing Network for Emotion Recognition

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-07-15 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Context-aware emotion recognition (CAER) enhances affective computing in real-world scenarios, but traditional methods often suffer from context bias-spurious correlation between background context and emotion labels (e.g. associating ``garden'' with ``happy''). In this paper, we propose \textbf{AGCD-Net}, an Attention Guided Context Debiasing model that introduces \textit{Hybrid ConvNeXt}, a novel convolutional encoder that extends the ConvNeXt backbone by integrating Spatial Transformer Network and Squeeze-and-Excitation layers for enhanced feature recalibration. At the core of AGCD-Net is the Attention Guided - Causal Intervention Module (AG-CIM), which applies causal theory, perturbs context features, isolates spurious correlations, and performs an attention-driven correction guided by face features to mitigate context bias. Experimental results on the CAER-S dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of AGCD-Net, achieving state-of-the-art performance and highlighting the importance of causal debiasing for robust emotion recognition in complex settings.

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@article{arxiv.2507.09248,
  title  = {AGCD-Net: Attention Guided Context Debiasing Network for Emotion Recognition},
  author = {Varsha Devi and Amine Bohi and Pardeep Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09248},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 Pages, 4 figures, 2 tables ICIAP 2025

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