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GAViD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Context-Aware Group Affect Recognition from Videos

Deepak Kumar, Abhishek Pratap Singh, Puneet Kumar, Xiaobai Li, Balasubramanian Raman

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Published 2026-04-17 · First seen 2026-04-20

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Understanding affective dynamics in real-world social systems is fundamental to modeling and analyzing human-human interactions in complex environments. Group affect emerges from intertwined human-human interactions, contextual influences, and behavioral cues, making its quantitative modeling a challenging computational social systems problem. However, computational modeling of group affect in in-the-wild scenarios remains challenging due to limited large-scale annotated datasets and the inherent complexity of multimodal social interactions shaped by contextual and behavioral variability. The lack of comprehensive datasets annotated with multimodal and contextual information further limits advances in the field. To address this, we introduce the Group Affect from ViDeos (GAViD) dataset, comprising 5091 video clips with multimodal data (video, audio and context), annotated with ternary valence and discrete emotion labels and enriched with VideoGPT-generated contextual metadata and human-annotated action cues. We also present Context-Aware Group Affect Recognition Network (CAGNet) for multimodal context-aware group affect recognition. CAGNet achieves 63.20\% test accuracy on GAViD, comparable to state-of-the-art performance. The dataset and code are available at github.com/deepakkumar-iitr/GAViD.

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@article{kumar2026gavid,
  title = {GAViD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Context-Aware Group Affect Recognition from Videos},
  author = {Deepak Kumar and Abhishek Pratap Singh and Puneet Kumar and Xiaobai Li and Balasubramanian Raman},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Understanding affective dynamics in real-world social systems is fundamental to modeling and analyzing human-human interactions in complex environments. Group affect emerges from intertwined human-human interactions, contextual influences, and behavioral cues, making its quantitative modeling a challenging computational social systems problem. However, computational modeling of group affect in in-the-wild scenarios remains challenging due to limited large-scale annotated datasets and the inheren},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16214},
  keywords = {cs.CV},
  eprint = {2604.16214},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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