Zhun Liu, Ying Shen, Varun Bharadhwaj Lakshminarasimhan, Paul Pu Liang, AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Louis-Philippe Morency
| Challenge: | Multimodal research is a growing field of artificial intelligence, and fusion is one of the main research problems. |
| Approach: | They propose a low-rank multimodal fusion method which integrates multiple unimodal representations into one compact multimodal representation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves competitive results on multimodal sentiment analysis, speaker trait analysis, and emotion recognition tasks while reducing computational complexity. |
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