Multimodal Fine-Grained Apparent Personality Trait Recognition: Joint Modeling of Big Five and Questionnaire Item-level Scores

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for automatically recognizing people's apparent personality traits as perceived by others. In previous studies, apparent personality trait recognition from multimodal human behavior is often modeled to directly estimate personality trait scores, i.e., the ``Big Five'' scores. In the model training phase, ground-truth personality trait scores were often determined from personality test results scored by many other people using fine-grained questionnaires, however, rich information in the personality test results have not been leveraged for anything other than determining the ground-truth Big Five scores. The scores assigned to each questionnaire item are thought to include more meta-level differences in personality characteristics. Therefore, we propose joint modeling methods that can estimate not only the Big Five scores but also questionnaire item-level scores. This enables us to improve awareness of multimodal human behavior. In addition, we present a newly created self-introduction video dataset with 50-item Big Five questionnaire results since previous apparent personality trait recognition datasets do not provide such personality test results. Experiments using the created dataset demonstrate that our proposed joint modeling methods with a multimodal transformer backbone can improve to estimate Big Five scores and effectively estimate questionnaire item-level scores. We also verify that the estimation performance reached human evaluation performance.