AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 7h ago5/10
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Beyond the Mouth: Upper-Face Affective Cues in Audiovisual Sentence Recognition under Acoustic Uncertainty
A new study demonstrates that upper-face affective cues significantly enhance audiovisual speech recognition systems when audio quality degrades, particularly in noisy environments. Rather than encoding linguistic content directly, emotional facial expressions improve model calibration and robustness, suggesting that human communication relies on socially expressive signals beyond traditional mouth-region visual cues.