Modality-based Factorization for Multimodal Fusion

We propose a multimodal data fusion method by obtaining a $M+1$ dimensional tensor to consider the high-order relationship between $M$ modalities and the output layer of a neural network model. Applying a modality-based tensor factorization method, which adopts different factors for different modalities, results in removing the redundant information with respect to model outputs and leads to fewer model parameters with minimal loss of performance. This factorization method works as a regularizer which leads to a less complicated model and avoids overfitting. In addition, a modality-based factorization approach helps to understand the amount of useful information in each modality. We have applied this method to three different multimodal datasets in sentiment analysis, personality trait recognition, and emotion recognition. The results demonstrate that the approach yields a 1\% to 4\% improvement on several evaluation measures compared to the state-of-the-art for all three tasks.

Investigating Audio, Visual, and Text Fusion Methods for End-to-End Automatic Personality Prediction

We propose a tri-modal architecture to predict Big Five personality trait scores from video clips with different channels for audio, text, and video data. For each channel, stacked Convolutional Neural Networks are employed. The channels are fused both on decision-level and by concatenating their respective fully connected layers. It is shown that a multimodal fusion approach outperforms each single modality channel, with an improvement of 9.4\% over the best individual modality (video). Full backpropagation is also shown to be better than a linear combination of modalities, meaning complex interactions between modalities can be leveraged to build better models. Furthermore, we can see the prediction relevance of each modality for each trait. The described model can be used to increase the emotional intelligence of virtual agents.