The first Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MER 2023) was successfully held at ACM Multimedia. The challenge focuses on system robustness and consists of three distinct tracks: (1) MER-MULTI, where participants are required to recognize both discrete and dimensional emotions; (2) MER-NOISE, in which noise is added to test videos for modality robustness evaluation; (3) MER-SEMI, which provides a large amount of unlabeled samples for semi-supervised learning. In this paper, we introduce the motivation behind this challenge, describe the benchmark dataset, and provide some statistics about participants. To continue using this dataset after MER 2023, please sign a new End User License Agreement and send it to our official email address merchallenge.contact@gmail.com. We believe this high-quality dataset can become a new benchmark in multimodal emotion recognition, especially for the Chinese research community.
@article{arxiv.2304.08981,
title = {MER 2023: Multi-label Learning, Modality Robustness, and Semi-Supervised Learning},
author = {Zheng Lian and Haiyang Sun and Licai Sun and Kang Chen and Mingyu Xu and Kexin Wang and Ke Xu and Yu He and Ying Li and Jinming Zhao and Ye Liu and Bin Liu and Jiangyan Yi and Meng Wang and Erik Cambria and Guoying Zhao and Björn W. Schuller and Jianhua Tao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08981},
year = {2023}
}