The CONFER Database

 

 

 

The Conflict Escalation Resolution (CONFER) Database is a collection of audio-visual recordings of naturalistic interactions from televised political debates suitable for the investigation of conflict behavior as well as other social signals and behaviours. It contains 120 audio-visual episodes in Greek language extracted from a total of 27 TV broadcasts, with total duration of approximately 142 minutes and a total number of 54 subjects (43 male, 11 female). The dataset is split into 2 sets which consist of recordings containing interactions that involve two or three participants, respectively. All 120 clips have been annotated by 10 experts in terms of continuous conflict intensity.


The database has been collected within the IEF Marie Curie Fellowship (CONFER) of Yannis Panagakis and EC H2020 SEWA project (http://www.sewaproject.eu) and is freely available. 


The dataset can be downloaded from the links below:


README.pdf

Content: README file

Format: PDF document

Size: 139 kB


Protocol.zip

Content: List of clip names belonging to the 5 folds of the baseline cross-validation experiment for each set (two and three) of the database

Format: zip archive containing text files

Size: 6 kB


Clips

Content: 120 audio-visual clips of the database

Format: zip archive containing avi videos

Clips/two/FOLD_1.zip      Size: 3.9 GB

Clips/two/FOLD_2.zip      Size:  2.1 GB

Clips/two/FOLD_3.zip      Size: 2.7 GB

Clips/two/FOLD_4.zip      Size: 2.7 GB

Clips/two/FOLD_5.zip      Size: 3.4 GB

Clips/three/FOLD_1.zip   Size: 7.7 GB

Clips/three/FOLD_2.zip   Size: 2.2 GB

Clips/three/FOLD_3.zip   Size: 2.3 GB

Clips/three/FOLD_4.zip   Size: 5.3 GB

Clips/three/FOLD_5.zip   Size: 3.0 GB

 

Tracking

Content: Video frames and facial tracking points corresponding to each participant from each of the 120 clips

Format: zip archive containing jpeg images (frames) and pts text files (points)

Tracking/two/FOLD_1.zip        Size: 756 MB 

Tracking/two/FOLD_2.zip        Size: 782 MB 

Tracking/two/FOLD_3.zip        Size: 881 MB 

Tracking/two/FOLD_4.zip        Size: 950 MB 

Tracking/two/FOLD_5.zip        Size: 1023 MB 

Tracking/three/FOLD_1.zip     Size: 1021 MB

Tracking/three/FOLD_2.zip     Size: 542 MB

Tracking/three/FOLD_3.zip     Size: 636 MB

Tracking/three/FOLD_4.zip     Size: 716 MB

Tracking/three/FOLD_5.zip     Size: 655 MB

 

SIFT

Content: SIFT features extracted from registered (aligned) images and facial points for each participant from each of the 120 clips

Format: zip archive containing mat files for SIFT features


SIFT/two/FOLD_1.zip       Size: 1.70 GB 

SIFT/two/FOLD_2.zip       Size: 1.00 GB 

SIFT/two/FOLD_3.zip       Size: 0.97 GB 

SIFT/two/FOLD_4.zip       Size: 0.98 GB 

SIFT/two/FOLD_5.zip       Size: 0.97 GB 

SIFT/three/FOLD_1.zip     Size: 2.1 GB

SIFT/three/FOLD_2.zip     Size: 1.4 GB

SIFT/three/FOLD_3.zip     Size: 1.3 GB

SIFT/three/FOLD_4.zip     Size: 1.4 GB

SIFT/three/FOLD_5.zip     Size: 1.4 GB

 

AudioFeatures.zip

Content: Audio channel and low-level descriptor (LLD) acoustic features for each of the 120 clips

Format: zip archive containing wav recordings (audio channel) and mat files (features).

Size: 425 MB


Annotations.zip

Content: Frame-by-frame continuous-valued conflict intensity of the database clips corresponding to both the original annotations (provided by the 10 experts) and the single ground truth annotations (derived by us)

Format: zip archive containing mat files for both original and ground truth annotations

Size: 1.7 MB




The CONFER Database is provided for research purposes ONLY (NO commercial products).

 Users of this data are kindly requested to cite the following paper:

 C. GeorgakisY. PanagakisS. ZafeiriouM. Pantic, “The Conflict Escalation Resolution (CONFER) Database”, in Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis and Mining in the Wild Images, (accepted for publication). (pdf)

 

For any questions, please contact Christos Georgakis (christos.georgakis@imperial.ac.uk).