CREMA-D: Crowd-Sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset

Abstract

People convey their emotional state in their face and voice. We present an audio-visual dataset uniquely suited for the study of multi-modal emotion expression and perception. The dataset consists of facial and vocal emotional expressions in sentences spoken in a range of basic emotional states (happy, sad, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral). 7,442 clips of 91 actors with diverse ethnicbackgrounds were rated by multiple raters in three modalities: audio, visual, and audio-visual. Categorical emotion labels andreal-value intensity values for the perceived emotion were collected using crowd-sourcing from 2,443 raters. The human recognition of intended emotion for the audio-only, visual-only, and audio-visual data are 40.9, 58.2 and 63.6 percent respectively. Recognition rates are highest for neutral, followed by happy, anger, disgust, fear, and sad. Average intensity levels of emotion are rated highest forvisual-only perception. The accurate recognition of disgust and fear requires simultaneous audio-visual cues, while anger andhappiness can be well recognized based on evidence from a single modality. The large dataset we introduce can be used to probe other questions concerning the audio-visual perception of emotion.