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Non-verbal Facial Action Units-based Automatic Depression Classification

Human-Computer Interaction 2022-11-22 v1

Abstract

Depression is a common mental disorder that causes people to experience depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth. Traditional clinical depression diagnosis methods are subjective and time consuming. Since depression can be reflected by human facial expressions, We propose a non-verbal facial behavior-based automatic depression classification approach. In this paper, both short-term behavior-based and clip-based depression classification are constructed. The final clip-level decision of short-term behavior-based depression detection is yielded by averaging the predictions of all short-term behaviors while we modelling behaviors contained in all frames based on two Gaussian Mixture Models. To evaluate the proposed approaches, we select a gender balanced subset from AVEC 2019 depression corpus containing 30 participants. The experimental results show that our method achieved more than 75% depression classification accuracy, where both GMM-based clip-level depression modelling and rank pooling-based short-term depression behavior modelling achieved at least 70% classification accuracy. The result indicates that our approach can leverage complementary information from both systems to achieve promising depression predictions from facial behaviors.

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@article{arxiv.2211.10911,
  title  = {Non-verbal Facial Action Units-based Automatic Depression Classification},
  author = {Chuang Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10911},
  year   = {2022}
}
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