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MSTDD: A Multi-scale Transformer Framework for Automatic Depression Detection

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Dongfang Han
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Yi Liang
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Xi Zhang
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Yuanyuan Liao
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Askar Hamdulla
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Turdi Tohti *
DOI:10.1007/978-981-95-3456-2_13delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Automatic Depression Detection (ADD) methods utilize multimodal data, including text, audio, and visual information, to facilitate early clinical diagnosis and intervention. However, current ADD approaches predominantly model global or single-scale features, thus inadequately capturing fine-grained local depressive cues and insufficiently exploiting complementary information across modalities. In this paper, we propose MSTDD, a Multi-Scale Transformer-based method designed to address these limitations by effectively extracting and integrating depression-related features at multiple scales. Specifically, MSTDD employs modality-specific multi-scale encoders to capture hierarchical local depressive indicators, and introduces a multimodal cross-attention fusion mechanism to promote robust feature interaction between modalities. Extensive comparative evaluations and ablation experiments conducted on two benchmark depression datasets-DAIC-WOZ (AVEC 2017) and E-DAIC (AVEC 2019)-demonstrate that MSTDD outperforms state-of-the-art ADD methods, achieving average F1-scores of 0.82 on DAIC-WOZ and 0.80 on E-DAIC. Additionally, we conduct experiments comparing baseline models under different fusion strategies, further validating the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Keywords:
Automatic Depression Detection
Multi-Scale Transformer
Multimodal Fusion
Depression Detection
Cross-Attention

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ADVANCED DATA MINING AND APPLICATIONS, ADMA 2025, PT II
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xinjiang university
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