GPT-4V with Emotion: A Zero-shot Benchmark for Multimodal Emotion Understanding

Recently, GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V) has shown remarkable performance across various multimodal tasks. However, its efficacy in emotion recognition remains a question. This paper quantitatively evaluates GPT-4V's capabilities in multimodal emotion understanding, encompassing tasks such as facial emotion recognition, visual sentiment analysis, micro-expression recognition, dynamic facial emotion recognition, and multimodal emotion recognition. Our experiments show that GPT-4V exhibits impressive multimodal and temporal understanding capabilities, even surpassing supervised systems in some tasks. Despite these achievements, GPT-4V is currently tailored for general domains. It performs poorly in micro-expression recognition that requires specialized expertise. The main purpose of this paper is to present quantitative results of GPT-4V on emotion understanding and establish a zero-shot benchmark for future research. Code and evaluation results are available at: https://github.com/zeroQiaoba/gpt4v-emotion.

LSTM Fully Convolutional Networks for Time Series Classification

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCN) have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance on the task of classifying time series sequences. We propose the augmentation of fully convolutional networks with long short term memory recurrent neural network (LSTM RNN) sub-modules for time series classification. Our proposed models significantly enhance the performance of fully convolutional networks with a nominal increase in model size and require minimal preprocessing of the dataset. The proposed Long Short Term Memory Fully Convolutional Network (LSTM-FCN) achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to others. We also explore the usage of attention mechanism to improve time series classification with the Attention Long Short Term Memory Fully Convolutional Network (ALSTM-FCN). Utilization of the attention mechanism allows one to visualize the decision process of the LSTM cell. Furthermore, we propose fine-tuning as a method to enhance the performance of trained models. An overall analysis of the performance of our model is provided and compared to other techniques.