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A DLF multi-scale quantitative research method for the big five personality traits.

Tao Ning¹, ZhengHua Guo², QiDong Hou²

¹SEAC Key Laboratory of Big Data Applied Technology, Dalian Key Lab of Digital Technology for National Culture , Dalian Minzu University, Dalian, China. daliannt@126.com.

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This study introduces a novel DLF Multi-Scale Network Model for personality trait analysis using video data. The model achieves high accuracy in recognizing Big Five personality traits by effectively integrating visual and audio features.

Keywords:

Behavioral analysis Big five personality traits Deep learning Discrete wavelet transform Multimodal fusion

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning

Background:

Current multimodal analysis methods often fail to capture the stability and correlation of features, hindering generalization and accuracy.
Extracting and fusing visual and audio data from videos presents challenges in maintaining feature integrity and addressing spatio-temporal inconsistencies.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a Deep Learning Fusion (DLF) Multi-Scale Network Model for enhanced personality trait recognition from video data.
To improve the stability and correlation of multimodal features during extraction and fusion processes.
To address limitations in existing models regarding generalization and recognition accuracy.

Main Methods:

The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied via the DWTC module to decompose video frames into multi-scale visual representations.
A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) extracts deep semantic features from these multi-scale representations for visual analysis.
Latent Feature Sequence Alignment (LMSA) and integration are employed for audio processing, addressing spatio-temporal inconsistencies and enhancing inter-modal correlations.

Main Results:

The proposed DLF model achieved a superior average multimodal fusion accuracy of 0.9177 on the First Impression V1 dataset.
The model significantly outperformed existing methods in recognizing the Big Five personality traits.
The DWTC module and LMSA integration demonstrated effectiveness in enhancing feature stability and complementarity.

Conclusions:

The DLF Multi-Scale Network Model offers a robust approach to analyzing personality traits from video data by effectively fusing visual and audio information.
This research provides valuable insights into mapping behavioral characteristics to personality traits in digital contexts.
The findings have practical implications for mental health assessment and personalized recommendation systems.