EmotiW 2023: Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge

This paper describes the 9th Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) challenge, which is being run as a grand challenge at the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2023. EmotiW challenge focuses on afect related benchmarking tasks and comprises of two sub-challenges: a) User Engagement Prediction in the Wild, and b) Audio-Visual Group-based Emotion Recognition. The purpose of this challenge is to provide a common platform for researchers from diverse domains. The objective is to promote the development and assessment of methods, which can predict engagement levels and/or identify perceived emotional well-being of a group of individuals in real-world circumstances. We describe the datasets, the challenge protocols and the accompanying sub-challenge.