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New MissMAC-Bench benchmark tackles missing modality issue in affective computing

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Researchers have introduced MissMAC-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal affective computing (MAC) systems. This benchmark addresses the challenge of missing modality data in real-world scenarios, which can cause significant performance drops in MAC models. MissMAC-Bench aims to establish consistent evaluation standards by considering cross-modal synergy and ensuring models can handle both complete and incomplete multimodal inputs. The benchmark includes evaluation protocols for fixed and random missing patterns at both dataset and instance levels, with code available for use. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could lead to more robust and practical multimodal affective computing systems by addressing real-world data limitations.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ronghao Lin, Honghao Lu, Ruixing Wu, Aolin Xiong, Qinggong Chu, Qiaolin He, Sijie Mai, Haifeng Hu ·

    MissMAC-Bench: Building Solid Benchmark for Missing Modality Issue in Robust Multimodal Affective Computing

    arXiv:2602.00811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) systems heavily rely on the completeness of multiple modalities to accurately understand human's affective state. However, in real-world scenarios, the availability of modality data i…

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