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What Your Face Vlogs About: Expressions of Emotion and Big-Five Traits Impressions in YouTube

Teijeiro-Mosquera, Lucia
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Biel, Joan-Isaac
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Alba-Castro, Jose Luis
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2015
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Social video sites where people share their opinions and feelings are increasing in popularity. The face is known to reveal important aspects of human psychological traits, so the understanding of how facial expressions relate to personal constructs is a relevant problem in social media. We present a study of the connections between automatically extracted facial expressions of emotion and impressions of Big-Five personality traits in YouTube vlogs (i.e., video blogs). We use the Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox (CERT) system to characterize users of conversational vlogs. From CERT temporal signals corresponding to instantaneously recognized facial expression categories, we propose and derive four sets of behavioral cues that characterize face statistics and dynamics in a compact way. The cue sets are first used in a correlation analysis to assess the relevance of each facial expression of emotion with respect to Big-Five impressions obtained from crowd-observers watching vlogs, and also as features for automatic personality impression prediction. Using a dataset of 281 vloggers, the study shows that while multiple facial expression cues have significant correlation with several of the Big-Five traits, they are only able to significantly predict Extraversion impressions with moderate values of R-square.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/Taffc.2014.2370044
Web of Science ID

WOS:000356172600011

Author(s)
Teijeiro-Mosquera, Lucia
Biel, Joan-Isaac
Alba-Castro, Jose Luis
Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
Date Issued

2015

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Volume

6

Issue

2

Start page

193

End page

205

Subjects

Face processing

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facial expressions

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personality prediction

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vlogs

Editorial or Peer reviewed

NON-REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LIDIAP  
Available on Infoscience
February 19, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/111090
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