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Adaptive Physical-Facial Representation Fusion via Subject-Invariant Cross-Modal Prompt Tuning for Video-Based Emotion Recognition

Xiwen Luo , Jia Li , Rencheng Song , Yu Liu , Juan Cheng

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keywords emotion recognitionrPPGprompt tuningmultimodal fusionsubject-invariantvideo-basedvision transformercross-modal adaptation

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The pith

Subject-invariant cross-modal prompt tuning fuses rPPG time-frequency representations with facial tokens in a frozen ViT to improve video emotion recognition and generalization across people.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a framework that combines facial video cues with remote physiological signals to recognize emotions more reliably while handling differences between individuals. It converts the physiological waveforms into time-frequency images that resist noise, then uses these to generate prompts that adjust how a pretrained vision transformer processes the facial data without changing the model's core learned features. A decoupled adapter added to each transformer layer keeps features common to all subjects separate from those unique to each person. This lets the system draw on complementary information from both sources while avoiding the common problems of losing pretrained model power or failing on new people. Readers would care because current multimodal approaches often either break the benefits of large pretrained networks or show poor performance when tested on unseen subjects.

Core claim

The central claim is that rPPG waveforms can be turned into noise-robust time-frequency representations from which modality-complementary prompts are generated to modulate facial tokens inside a frozen Vision Transformer, while a decoupled shared-specific adapter placed in each ViT layer explicitly separates subject-shared and subject-specific components; this combination enables effective cross-modal interaction, preserves generalizable facial representations, and delivers higher recognition accuracy plus better generalization on the MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP benchmarks.

What carries the argument

The subject-invariant cross-modal prompt tuning mechanism that creates modality-complementary prompts from rPPG time-frequency representations to adapt frozen ViT facial tokens, together with the decoupled shared-specific adapter (DSSA) that separates shared and specific components inside each transformer layer.

Load-bearing premise

Time-frequency representations of rPPG stay noise-robust enough that the generated prompts and the adapter can reliably isolate subject-shared from subject-specific components without labels at inference time or any change to the frozen backbone.

What would settle it

Run the full method against the same baselines on MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP with held-out subjects; if accuracy and generalization gaps disappear when the prompts or DSSA are removed, or if added rPPG noise collapses performance, the central claim is refuted.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.05694 by Jia Li, Juan Cheng, Rencheng Song, Xiwen Luo, Yu Liu.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Schematic comparison between common rPPG-facial emotion recog view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overall architecture of the proposed SCPT. Facial frames and rPPG time-frequency representation (TFR), where the latter are obtained from rPPG view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Comparison of the TFRs of the predicted rPPG (left) and the view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Ablation results on loss functions on MAHNOB-HCI (top) and view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Temporal visualization of facial frames, rPPG time-frequency representations (TFRs), and spatial attention maps from the experimental segments of view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Several samples in MAHNOB-HCI dataset with inconsistent or view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Visualization of the role of SVD in the shared representation matrix view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: t-SNE visualization of the learned shared representations on view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Sensitivity analysis of the weights λ1, λ2, and λ3 in Eq.(11) on MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP. VI. CONCLUSION In this paper, we propose SCPT, a subject-invariant crossmodal prompt-tuning framework for non-contact emotion recognition by jointly modeling facial expression representations and rPPG-based physical cues extracted from facial videos. The proposed framework tackles cross-modal complementary fusion and i… view at source ↗

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Emotion recognition from facial videos enables non-contact inference of human emotional states. Although facial expressions are widely used cues, they cannot fully reflect intrinsic affective states. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) provides complementary physiological information, but it is highly susceptible to noise and inter-subject variability, limiting generalization to unseen individuals. Existing multimodal methods combine facial and rPPG features, yet their fusion strategies often disrupt pretrained facial representations and lack explicit mechanisms to suppress subject-specific variations. To address these issues, we propose a subject-invariant cross-modal prompt-tuning framework for video-based emotion recognition. Specifically, rPPG waveforms are transformed into noise-robust time-frequency representations (TFRs), from which modality-complementary prompts are generated to modulate facial tokens within a frozen Vision Transformer (ViT). This design enables effective cross-modal interaction while preserving the generalizable facial representations learned by the pretrained backbone. In addition, we introduce a decoupled shared-specific adapter (DSSA) into each ViT layer to explicitly separate subject-shared and subject-specific components, thereby improving cross-subject generalization. Experiments on the MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms strong baselines in both recognition accuracy and generalization ability, highlighting its effectiveness for video-based emotion recognition.

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The paper adds TFR-based prompts and a decoupled shared-specific adapter to a frozen ViT for better subject-invariant fusion of rPPG and facial video in emotion recognition, with reported gains on two benchmarks.

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The main thing is a concrete way to fuse rPPG time-frequency representations with facial features: they generate modality-complementary prompts from the TFRs to modulate tokens inside a frozen ViT, then add a decoupled shared-specific adapter in each layer to pull apart subject-shared and subject-specific components. This keeps the pretrained backbone intact while targeting inter-subject variability, which is a practical issue in these datasets. They test on MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP and say it beats strong baselines on both accuracy and generalization. That combination of prompt modulation plus the explicit DSSA split is the new technical piece, and freezing the ViT is a sensible choice to avoid wrecking general facial representations. The design lines up with the stated goals without obvious internal contradictions or hidden circularity in the training. The softer spots are around how robust the TFR conversion actually is to real noise and whether the shared-specific separation delivers measurable gains on properly held-out subjects; the abstract gives no numbers or ablation details, so those claims need the full experiments to judge effect size. Minor concern only if the splits and stats hold up. This is useful for people doing multimodal affective computing or prompt-based fusion with vision models. It has enough of a new mechanism and benchmark results to deserve a serious referee rather than a desk reject.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes a subject-invariant cross-modal prompt-tuning framework for video-based emotion recognition. rPPG waveforms are converted to noise-robust time-frequency representations (TFRs) from which modality-complementary prompts are generated to modulate facial tokens inside a frozen ViT backbone. A decoupled shared-specific adapter (DSSA) is inserted into each ViT layer to explicitly separate subject-shared from subject-specific components. Experiments on MAHNOB-HCI and DEAP are reported to show consistent gains in recognition accuracy and cross-subject generalization over strong baselines.

Significance. If the reported gains are reproducible and the ablations confirm that prompt modulation and DSSA preserve the frozen ViT representations while improving invariance, the work would offer a practical route to multimodal fusion that avoids catastrophic forgetting of pretrained features and does not require subject labels at test time. This could be relevant for non-contact affective monitoring where subject generalization remains a bottleneck.

major comments (2)

[§5.2] §5.2, Table 3: the cross-subject generalization results on DEAP report accuracy improvements of 3–5 % over the strongest baseline, yet no per-subject variance, confidence intervals, or paired statistical tests are provided; without these the claim that DSSA reliably improves generalization cannot be evaluated as load-bearing.
[§4.3] §4.3, Eq. (7)–(9): the DSSA formulation separates shared and specific adapters via an explicit orthogonality term, but the paper does not report the sensitivity of final accuracy to the weighting hyper-parameter λ; if performance collapses for λ outside a narrow range the separation mechanism is not robust.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract asserts outperformance without any numerical values; adding the key accuracy figures and dataset splits would make the contribution summary self-contained.
[Figure 2] Figure 2 (DSSA diagram) uses inconsistent arrow styles for the shared versus specific paths; a single consistent notation would improve readability.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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Referee: [§5.2] §5.2, Table 3: the cross-subject generalization results on DEAP report accuracy improvements of 3–5 % over the strongest baseline, yet no per-subject variance, confidence intervals, or paired statistical tests are provided; without these the claim that DSSA reliably improves generalization cannot be evaluated as load-bearing.

Authors: We agree that reporting per-subject variance, confidence intervals, and statistical tests is necessary to substantiate the generalization claims. In the revised manuscript we will expand Table 3 to include per-subject standard deviations, 95 % confidence intervals (via subject-wise bootstrapping), and paired t-test p-values comparing our method to the strongest baseline on DEAP. These additions will allow direct evaluation of whether the observed 3–5 % gains are reliable across subjects. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.3] §4.3, Eq. (7)–(9): the DSSA formulation separates shared and specific adapters via an explicit orthogonality term, but the paper does not report the sensitivity of final accuracy to the weighting hyper-parameter λ; if performance collapses for λ outside a narrow range the separation mechanism is not robust.

Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting the need to verify robustness with respect to λ. In the revised version we will add an ablation subsection that sweeps λ across [0.01, 10] on DEAP and reports the resulting accuracy curves. This will demonstrate that the orthogonality constraint yields stable performance over a practical range of λ without requiring per-dataset retuning. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes a new architectural framework (TFR conversion of rPPG, modality-complementary prompts modulating a frozen ViT, and DSSA for shared/specific separation) without any equations, derivations, or parameter-fitting steps that reduce by construction to the inputs. Performance claims rest on benchmark experiments rather than tautological predictions or self-citation chains. No load-bearing mathematical reduction or ansatz smuggling is present in the provided text.

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Based on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The approach implicitly assumes standard ViT pretraining and rPPG signal properties hold.

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