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Facial Dynamics in Video: Instruction Tuning for Improved Facial Expression Perception and Contextual Awareness

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Pith's one-line read This paper introduces dynamic facial expression captioning with a 5,033-clip instruction dataset, a face-tracking multimodal model, a benchmark, and an event-order-aware metric, and claims the model beats every compared method on the…

desk verdict The DFEC task and FDA dataset are the real contribution; the Table 1 SOTA claim is confounded by fine-tuning and needs rework. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.07978 v1 pith:734JDURI submitted 2025-01-14 cs.CV cs.AI

classification cs.CVcs.AI
keywords dynamicfacialexpressioncaptioningvideomultimodallargelanguagemodelsinstructiontuningfacetrackingtemporaleventmatchingbenchmarkmulti-personunderstandingLoRAfine-tuning
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

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

The reading

Video multimodal large language models can describe what happens in a clip, but they under-describe faces because every frame is compressed into a small number of visual tokens. The paper's proposal is that this can be fixed by giving the model a dedicated, tracked view of the main character's face: it introduces a new task, dynamic facial expression captioning; a 5,033-clip manually annotated instruction dataset (FDA); and FaceTrack-MM, a model that adds a face-tracking module and a face-specific encoder on top of an existing video MLLM. It also contributes FEC-Bench, a 1,000-clip benchmark, and a metric, TEM, that scores both event content and event order. The paper's central claim is that FaceTrack-MM outperforms all 15 compared open-source and proprietary models on FEC-Bench, with the largest gains on lexical and event-based metrics. If true, this gives downstream applications a compact recipe for turning video MLLMs into reliable, temporally ordered describers of facial behavior.

What carries the argument

The central mechanism is the dynamic video face tracking module. It downsamples the video to 16 fps, runs face detection (DaMOFD) and face-feature extraction (TransFace), links detections into trajectories with StrongSORT, and uses K-means on trajectory area and internal cosine similarity to pick the main character's trajectory; the chosen face is then encoded by FaceXFormer and projected into the LLM as extra tokens. The paper's other mechanism is the Temporal Event Matching (TEM) metric, which extracts face-related events with ChatGPT, classifies each generated-versus-reference event pair as Same Meaning, Opposite Meaning, or No Relation, and averages an event F-measure with a longest-common-subsequence score on the ordered event lists.

What would settle it

Construct caption pairs that describe the same facial events in the same order but use synonymous wording, such as 'his eyes widen' versus 'his eyes become wide', run TEM on them, and check whether the order component stays unchanged; if the score drops, the metric is measuring surface wording rather than event order.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's discovery is that the bottleneck in facial-expression captioning is visual-token allocation rather than language understanding, and that the bottleneck is removable. FaceTrack-MM takes the VideoLLaMA2 architecture and inserts a dynamic face pathway: frames are downsampled to 16 fps, faces are detected and tracked into trajectories, K-means clustering separates the main character's trajectory from background faces, and FaceXFormer encodes that trajectory into compact 'facial prior' tokens that enter the LLM alongside the usual CLIP/STC video tokens. After LoRA instruction tuning on FDA, the model records the best score in every column of FEC-Bench, including ChatGPT correctness, detail, context, and temporal scores, CIDEr, ROUGE-L, AutoDQ, and the proposed TEM. The ablation in the paper attributes the gains specifically to the trajectory-based face selection and to the specialized face encoder, with plain face-crop concatenation giving almost no improvement.

Load-bearing premise

The metric's event-order score assumes that ChatGPT extracts identical strings for the same facial event in the generated and reference captions; if the wording differs, the order match fails even when the events and their sequence are correct.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A 7B open video MLLM fine-tuned only with LoRA can surpass GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet on facial-expression captioning once the face pathway and instruction data are added.
  • The FDA dataset's separation of objective facial changes from marked subjective inferences offers a reusable annotation pattern for subtle video behavior.
  • TEM gives an automatic, LLM-based way to penalize caption errors that preserve content but scramble event order, which CIDEr, ROUGE-L, and AutoDQ do not do.
  • FaceTrack-MM's trajectory selection should let the model describe the intended person's face in multi-person video instead of blending or switching between faces.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The face-pathway recipe likely transfers to other small-region video understanding tasks such as hand, gaze, or gesture description, but the paper does not test this.
  • TEM could be made more robust by feeding the relation-classification results into the longest-common-subsequence matching instead of requiring identical event strings; the paper does not do this.
  • Because the benchmark uses a random split of one annotated video distribution, the reported gains may partly reflect learning the annotation style, and cross-domain generalization remains untested.
  • Expanding the 5,033-clip manual annotation pipeline with model-assisted pre-labeling plus human correction is a natural next step toward scaling this task.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Dynamic Facial Expression Captioning (DFEC), a new task of generating natural-language descriptions of a main character's facial changes in video. It contributes the FDA dataset (5,033 manually annotated clips), the FaceTrack-MM model (VideoLLaMA2 augmented with a dynamic face-tracking module and a FaceXFormer facial encoder), the TEM evaluation metric (event extraction, relation classification, and LCS), and the FEC-Bench benchmark comparing 15 MLLMs. The central empirical claim is that FaceTrack-MM 'significantly outperforms all other methods' on FEC-Bench, and that its face-tracking design is responsible for the improvement.

Significance. If the claims were fully supported, the paper would make a useful contribution: a new dataset and benchmark for a task (DFEC) that existing MLLMs handle poorly, a modular architecture for injecting facial priors into video LLMs, and a metric that tries to capture both event content and temporal order. The dataset and benchmark are potentially reusable resources, and the ablation study (Table 2) is a good start toward understanding where gains come from. However, the headline comparison is confounded by in-distribution fine-tuning, and the TEM metric has an internal inconsistency between its stated relation-classification step and its actual LCS implementation. These issues do not invalidate the dataset or the architectural idea, but they do undermine the paper's main comparative and metric claims as currently presented.

major comments (4)
  1. [§5.2, Table 1 and Table 2] The headline comparison is confounded. FaceTrack-MM is fine-tuned on the FDA training split, while all 15 baselines in Table 1 are evaluated zero-shot. Table 2 shows that instruction tuning alone raises VideoLLaMA2's AutoDQ from 0.344 to 0.422 and TEM from 0.258 to 0.321, and the full face-tracking plus FaceXFormer pipeline adds only +0.061 AutoDQ and +0.043 TEM. Therefore, the large margins over zero-shot baselines in Table 1 mostly reflect in-distribution fine-tuning rather than the proposed face-tracking architecture. The claim in §5.2 that the method 'significantly outperforms all other methods on the FEC-Bench' is not supported without a comparably fine-tuned strong baseline (e.g., VideoLLaMA2 instruction-tuned on the same FDA training data) as the primary control.
  2. [§3.4, Algorithm 1] The TEM metric is internally inconsistent. The text describes relation classification into Same Meaning, Opposite Meaning, and No Relation, but Algorithm 1 line 14 computes LCS using exact string equality (EG[i-1] == ER[j-1]). ChatGPT-extracted event strings will rarely be identical when they carry the same meaning, so the LCS temporal-order component does not measure semantic order consistency as claimed. The F-measure computation in line 24 is also unspecified: the paper does not state how the relation classifications are converted into precision and recall. Without a precise matching rule, TEM's numerical values are not reproducible, and the temporal-order component should be either implemented via the relation classifications or clearly described as an exact-string proxy.
  3. [§5.2, Fig. 8] The ChatGPT-based reformatting of generated text before evaluation biases the benchmark in favor of the fine-tuned model. The paper states that all generated text is converted into a format similar to the reference 'without altering its content,' but no evidence is provided that content is preserved; for n-gram metrics such as CIDEr and ROUGE-L, even a paraphrase with the same meaning can change token overlap. Because FaceTrack-MM was fine-tuned on the reference style, it naturally matches the reformatted references better than zero-shot baselines. Please report scores both before and after reformatting, and show that the reformatting does not systematically change the relative ranking.
  4. [Abstract and §5.4] The claim of 'superior performance ... even in intricate multi-person scenarios' is not directly tested. No experiment isolates multi-person videos, and the qualitative example in Fig. 4 appears to be a single person. Please provide a breakdown of FEC-Bench results by number of detected faces per video, or a dedicated multi-person subset, to support this specific claim about multi-person robustness.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§3.4, Algorithm 1 line 21] The LCS score is normalized by m (the number of generated events), which is asymmetric and not justified; if a model generates many spurious events, the score is penalized even when all reference events are matched in order. Please state the normalization choice explicitly and consider reporting both order-aware recall and precision, or normalizing by max(m,n).
  2. [§4.2.2] The main-trajectory selection uses K-means with exactly two clusters, implicitly assuming that all videos contain only two roles (main and background). Many videos may have multiple salient characters; please justify this fixed choice or make the number of clusters adaptive.
  3. [Table 1] The table caption lists a 'Consistency' metric, but the table header shows only Correctness, Detail, Context, and Temporal. Please align the caption with the columns actually reported.
  4. [§3.2] The annotation pipeline involves three annotators and a final reviewer, but no inter-annotator agreement statistic is reported. A measure such as Cohen's kappa or a sample-level agreement rate would strengthen confidence in the dataset's quality.
  5. [Various] There are several typos and formatting inconsistencies, e.g., 'PLLaV A' in Table 1, 'VideoLLaMA2' vs 'VideoLLaMA2-7B' vs 'Mistral-7B-Instruct' in §4.2.1, and 'Fig. 1' used to refer to both the task-comparison figure and the architecture figure. Please copyedit throughout.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 2.0 of 10

No definitional circularity; the SOTA claim is confounded by a fine-tuned-versus-zero-shot comparison, but the model is not derived from its own metric.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is not circular. FaceTrack-MM is trained with a standard language-modeling objective on the FDA training split, and the TEM metric is used only for evaluation; the model never optimizes TEM or FEC-Bench scores, so Algorithm 1 is not fed back into the model. Results are also reported on external n-gram metrics (CIDEr, ROUGE-L), which do not depend on the proposed pipeline. The self-citation [93] appears only in related work and is not load-bearing. The strongest caveat is evaluation fairness, not circularity: all 15 baselines are zero-shot while FaceTrack-MM is instruction-tuned on FDA, and Table 2 shows instruction tuning alone accounts for most of the gain; the paper's own Sec. 5.2 admits ChatGPT-based scores are biased by format mismatch and that outputs are reformatted before scoring. This is a validity concern about the 'significantly outperforms' headline, but it does not reduce the model or metric to the input by construction. The TEM LCS step uses exact string equality (Algorithm 1, line 14) despite relation classification, an internal inconsistency that weakens the metric's claim but is not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central empirical claim rests on the validity of the ChatGPT-based evaluation, the adequacy of the 2-cluster face trajectory separation, and the assumption that a test set sampled from the same distribution as training gives a fair zero-shot comparison.

free parameters (1)
  • K-means cluster count for main/background trajectory separation = 2
    The main trajectory selection in Section 4.2.2 uses K-means with 2 cluster centers, representing one main character cluster and one background character cluster. This hand-chosen value assumes exactly two roles in every video.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption ChatGPT can reliably extract and classify facial expression events for evaluation.
    The TEM metric in Section 3.4 relies on proprietary ChatGPT API outputs for event extraction and relation classification, without human validation or correlation analysis.
  • domain assumption K-means with two clusters always separates the main character from background characters in multi-person scenes.
    Section 4.2.2 assumes that the trajectory with larger area and higher cosine similarity is the main character, which may fail when multiple people speak or when the main character changes.
  • standard math The standard longest common subsequence dynamic programming algorithm is valid.
    Algorithm 1 uses LCS as a standard algorithmic tool, which is correct as a substring ordering measure, though its application here uses exact equality.

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Facial expression captioning has found widespread application across various domains. Recently, the emergence of video Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has shown promise in general video understanding tasks. However, describing facial expressions within videos poses two major challenges for these models: (1) the lack of adequate datasets and benchmarks, and (2) the limited visual token capacity of video MLLMs. To address these issues, this paper introduces a new instruction-following dataset tailored for dynamic facial expression caption. The dataset comprises 5,033 high-quality video clips annotated manually, containing over 700,000 tokens. Its purpose is to improve the capability of video MLLMs to discern subtle facial nuances. Furthermore, we propose FaceTrack-MM, which leverages a limited number of tokens to encode the main character's face. This model demonstrates superior performance in tracking faces and focusing on the facial expressions of the main characters, even in intricate multi-person scenarios. Additionally, we introduce a novel evaluation metric combining event extraction, relation classification, and the longest common subsequence (LCS) algorithm to assess the content consistency and temporal sequence consistency of generated text. Moreover, we present FEC-Bench, a benchmark designed to assess the performance of existing video MLLMs in this specific task. All data and source code will be made publicly available.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Comparison of annotation styles between different facial [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Some statistics of proposed DFEC dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Architecture of FaceTrack-MM. Our FaceTrack-MM leverages FaceXFormer [56] as the auxiliary facial visual encoder to extract facial features of the main characters and uses CLIP-ViT-Large [64] as the visual encoder. We utilize the STC module [11] as the visual projector to inject temporal information and use Mistral-7B-Instruct [23] for the pretrained large language model. fully crafted prompts with GPT-4 [61] to gen… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative result comparison. We highlight the content related to emotional and expressive changes in different methods as well as in the ground truth (GT). Our model demonstrates superior capability in capturing changes in facial expressions. Method VC Avg. AutoDQ TE…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Pipeline of the FDA annotation process. We use ChatGPT to preliminarily annotate the emotions and facial changes of the person in the video and introduce manual correcton and consolidation to get the refined final annotations. 3 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Event extraction. We use ChatGPT with the specific prompt to extract event from video captions. Prompt: Given two lists of events. For each pair of events (one from each list), classify the relationship between the events into three classes: Same Meaning, Opposite Mean…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Format alignment before calculating the VideoChatGPT scores. - Please give a thorough account of the character's facial features and expression variations throughout the video, highlighting their expressions at both the start and end of the footage. - Could you provide…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Prompt used to generate instructions and some instances of FDA instructions. 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: More visualizations of dataset annotations. 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: More visualizations of dataset annotations. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: More visualizations of dataset annotations. 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png]

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