A-VB Culture

In the A-VB Culture track, participants will be challenged with predicting the intensity of 10 emotions associated with each vocal burst as a multi-output regression task, using a model or multiple models that generate predictions specific to each of the four cultures (the U.S., China, Venezuela, or South Africa). Specifically, annotations of each vocal burst will consist of culture-specific ground truth, meaning that the ground truth for each sample will be the average of annotations solely from the country of origin of the sample. Participants will report the average Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC), as well as the Pearson correlation coefficient, across all 10 emotions. The baseline for this challenge will be based on CCC.