# Deep Impression: Audiovisual Deep Residual Networks for Multimodal Apparent Personality Trait Recognition

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05119 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.05119/

## Key facts

- Cited by 15 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 16 Sep 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 15 of 15)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Here, we develop an audiovisual deep residual network for multimodal apparent personality trait recognition. The network is trained end-to-end for predicting the Big Five personality traits of people from their videos. That is, the network does not require any feature engineering or visual analysis such as face detection, face landmark alignment or facial expression recognition. Recently, the network won the third place in the ChaLearn First Impressions Challenge with a test accuracy of 0.9109.