The ACII 2022 Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition: Understanding a critically understudied modality of emotional expression
Alice Baird, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Jeffrey A. Brooks, Christopher B., Gregory, Bj\"orn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen

TL;DR
This paper introduces the ACII 2022 Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition, focusing on understanding diverse emotional vocalizations through four challenging tasks with a large in-the-wild dataset and baseline machine learning models.
Contribution
It presents four novel tasks for analyzing vocal bursts, along with baseline systems and performance metrics, advancing research in emotional expression recognition.
Findings
Baseline CCC scores range from 0.4401 to 0.5687 across tasks.
Large-scale dataset of 59,299 vocalizations from 1,702 speakers used.
Four distinct tasks cover emotion intensity, arousal-valence, cultural, and vocal burst classification.
Abstract
The ACII Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition is focused on understanding multiple affective dimensions of vocal bursts: laughs, gasps, cries, screams, and many other non-linguistic vocalizations central to the expression of emotion and to human communication more generally. This year's competition comprises four tracks using a large-scale and in-the-wild dataset of 59,299 vocalizations from 1,702 speakers. The first, the A-VB-High task, requires competition participants to perform a multi-label regression on a novel model for emotion, utilizing ten classes of richly annotated emotional expression intensities, including; Awe, Fear, and Surprise. The second, the A-VB-Two task, utilizes the more conventional 2-dimensional model for emotion, arousal, and valence. The third, the A-VB-Culture task, requires participants to explore the cultural aspects of the dataset, training…
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TopicsSpeech Recognition and Synthesis · Voice and Speech Disorders · Humor Studies and Applications
