The 10th Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-Wild (ABAW) Workshop and Competition, held at CVPR 2026, continues to advance research on modelling, analysis, understanding of human affect and behavior in real-world, unconstrained environments. The workshop maintains its dual structure, comprising both a competition and a paper track. The ABAW Competition introduces a diverse set of challenges targeting key aspects of affective and behavioral understanding, including continuous affect (valence-arousal) estimation, discrete affect (expression and action unit) recognition, as well as more complex behavior analysis tasks, such as emotional mimicry intensity estimation, ambivalence/hesitancy recognition and fine-grained violence detection. These challenges are built upon large-scale in-the-wild datasets, providing comprehensive benchmarks for state-of-the-art approaches. In parallel, the paper track presents a wide range of contributions spanning pose, motion & behavior estimation, affect modelling & multimodal learning, benchmarks, datasets & evaluation protocols, fairness, robustness & deployment. Overall, the 10th ABAW Workshop and Competition continues to serve as a key platform for benchmarking, collaboration and innovation, shaping the development of next-generation multimodal, human-centered AI systems.
@article{arxiv.2605.27451,
title = {From Affect to Complex Behavior: Advancing Multimodal Human-Centered AI at the 10th ABAW Workshop & Competition},
author = {Dimitrios Kollias and Panagiotis Tzirakis and Alan Cowen and Stefanos Zafeiriou and Irene Kotsia and Eric Granger and Marco Pedersoli and Simon Bacon and Jens Madsen and Soufiane Belharbi and Muhammad Haseeb Aslam and Chunchang Shao and Guanyu Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27451},
year = {2026}
}