Predicting dominance in multi-person videos

Predicting dominance in multi-person videos

Chongyang Bai, Maksim Bolonkin, Srijan Kumar, Jure Leskovec, Judee Burgoon, Norah Dunbar, V. S. Subrahmanian

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4643-4650. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/645

We consider the problems of predicting (i) the most dominant person in a group of people, and (ii) the more dominant of a pair of people, from videos depicting group interactions. We introduce a novel family of variables called Dominance Rank. We combine features not previously used for dominance prediction (e.g., facial action units, emotions), with a novel ensemble-based approach to solve these two problems. We test our models against four competing algorithms in the literature on two datasets and show that our results improve past performance. We show 2.4% to 16.7% improvement in AUC compared to baselines on one dataset, and a gain of 0.6% to 8.8% in accuracy on the other. Ablation testing shows that Dominance Rank features play a key role.
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Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Social Sciences
Machine Learning Applications: Applications of Supervised Learning
Computer Vision: Video: Events, Activities and Surveillance