First impressions (ECCV '16, ICPR '16)

Dataset description

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We are organizing a challenge on “first impressions”, in which participants will develop solutions for recognizing personality traits of users in short video sequences. We are making available a large newly collected data set sponsored by Microsoft of at least 10,000 15-second videos collected from YouTube, annotated with personality traits by AMT workers. 

The first work studying the big-5 traits from audio-visual cues in thin-slices of YouTube personal videos using MTurk annotations and automatic inference of personality traits was presented in:

J.-I. Biel, O. Aran, and D. Gatica-Perez, You Are Known by How You Vlog: Personality Impressions and Nonverbal Behavior in YouTube in Proc. AAAI Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Barcelona, Jul. 2011

J.-I. Biel and D. Gatica-Perez, The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 41-55, Jan. 2013

With associated events at ACM Multimedia 2014:
https://sites.google.com/site/wcprst/home/wcpr14
https://www.idiap.ch/dataset/youtube-personality

Sample 1

 

Sample 2

Sample 3

Sample 4

Table 1. Sample videos that will be used for the first impression challenge.

 

The traits to be recognized will correspond to the “big five” personality traits used in psychology and well known of hiring managers using standardized personality profiling: Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism,  and Openness to experience.

 

 

As is known, the first impression made is highly important in many contexts, such as human resourcing or job interviews. This work could become very relevant to training young people to present themselves better by changing their behavior in simple ways. The participants who obtain the best results in the challenge will be invited to submit a paper to the workshop.