Most of emotion detection research is bunk. My argument: If it was so simple to detect emotions from purely visual/multimodal features, assuming being able to tell emotions apart as important for survival/mating, evolution would’ve selected us as a species with that ability.https://twitter.com/katecrawford/status/1233056918828199937 …
Even simple emotion signaling depends on expressing a differential between expected and intentional performance, and emotion recognition tries to determine the ground truth from deficits in the performance.