The First MPDD Challenge: Multimodal Personality-aware Depression Detection

TL;DR

This paper introduces the MPDD Challenge, focusing on multimodal, personality-aware depression detection across diverse age groups, emphasizing personalized approaches and broadening the scope beyond existing datasets.

Contribution

It presents a new challenge with age-specific datasets and baseline models that incorporate multimodal data and individual differences for depression detection.

Findings

Baseline multimodal model achieves promising results.

Inclusion of individual differences improves detection accuracy.

The challenge promotes personalized mental health assessment methods.

Abstract

Depression is a widespread mental health issue affecting diverse age groups, with notable prevalence among college students and the elderly. However, existing datasets and detection methods primarily focus on young adults, neglecting the broader age spectrum and individual differences that influence depression manifestation. Current approaches often establish a direct mapping between multimodal data and depression indicators, failing to capture the complexity and diversity of depression across individuals. This challenge includes two tracks based on age-specific subsets: Track 1 uses the MPDD-Elderly dataset for detecting depression in older adults, and Track 2 uses the MPDD-Young dataset for detecting depression in younger participants. The Multimodal Personality-aware Depression Detection (MPDD) Challenge aims to address this gap by incorporating multimodal data alongside individual difference factors. We provide a baseline model that fuses audio and video modalities with individual difference information to detect depression manifestations in diverse populations. This challenge aims to promote the development of more personalized and accurate de pression detection methods, advancing mental health research and fostering inclusive detection systems. More details are available on the official challenge website: https://hacilab.github.io/MPDDChallenge.github.io.