Facial affect models are trained almost entirely on adults, yet are increasingly applied to children in education, health, and developmental research. We present a controlled, multi-model audit of five AffectNet-pretrained expression models (EmoNet, EmotiEffLib, DDAMFN++, OpenFace 3.0, LibreFace) on children, across fo …
Fine-grained emotion recognition supports therapy tools and social robots, but it needs facial data, which raises privacy and data-protection concerns. EmoNet-Face-HQ answers that with generated portraits, expert-rated over a $40$-category taxonomy far finer than the usual six to eight basic emotions. Under the protoco …
Automatic assessment of communication quality in dyadic counseling conversations is bottlenecked by data: expert-rated corpora are small and expensive to grow. We study cross-domain transfer of expert overall-impression prediction across three German corpora of simulated counseling (two general-practice medical, one sc …