FriendBench: Benchmarking Dyadic Familiarity Inference in Humans and Multimodal Large Language Models.

Jeffrey M. Girard https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N2UcZ84AAAAJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7359-3746 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q85926289

Jeffrey M. Girard Jason Zheng Jacqueline R. Vertino Antony D'Avirro Benjamin N. Peloquin FriendBench: Benchmarking Dyadic Familiarity Inference in Humans and Multimodal Large Language Models. 2026 July abs/2607.29602 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.29602 db/journals/corr/corr2607.html#abs-2607-29602 streams/journals/corr

Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe Jeffrey M. Girard Einat Liebenthal Justin T. Baker Fernando De la Torre Louis-Philippe Morency LlaMADRS: Prompting Large Language Models for Interview-Based Depression Assessment. 2025 January abs/2501.03624 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.03624 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-03624 streams/journals/corr

Vasu Agrawal Akinniyi Akinyemi Kathryn Alvero Morteza Behrooz Julia Buffalini Fabio Maria Carlucci Joy Chen Junming Chen Zhang Chen Shiyang Cheng Praveen Chowdary Joe Chuang Antony D'Avirro Jon Daly Ning Dong Mark Duppenthaler Cynthia Gao Jeffrey M. Girard Martin Gleize Sahir Gomez Hongyu Gong Srivathsan Govindarajan Brandon Han Sen He 0001 Denise Hernandez Yordan Hristov Rongjie Huang Hirofumi Inaguma Somya Jain Raj Janardhan Qingyao Jia Christopher Klaiber Dejan Kovachev Moneish Kumar Hang Li Yilei Li Pavel Litvin Wei Liu 0005 Guangyao Ma Jing Ma Martin Ma Xutai Ma Lucas Mantovani Sagar Miglani Sreyas Mohan Louis-Philippe Morency Evonne Ng Kam-Woh Ng Tu Anh Nguyen Amia Oberai Benjamin N. Peloquin Juan Pino 0001 Jovan Popovic Omid Poursaeed Fabian Prada Alice Rakotoarison Rakesh Ranjan Alexander Richard Christophe Ropers Safiyyah Saleem Vasu Sharma Alex Shcherbyna Jia Shen Jie Shen Anastasis Stathopoulos Anna Y. Sun Paden Tomasello Tuan Tran Arina Turkatenko Bo Wan Chao Wang 0028 Jeff Wang Mary Williamson Carleigh Wood Tao Xiang 0001 Yilin Yang Julien Yao Chen Zhang Jiemin Zhang Xinyue Zhang Jason Zheng Pavlo Zhyzheria Jan Zikes Michael Zollhöfer Seamless Interaction: Dyadic Audiovisual Motion Modeling and Large-Scale Dataset. 2025 June abs/2506.22554 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.22554 db/journals/corr/corr2506.html#abs-2506-22554 streams/journals/corr

Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe Mehmet Deniz Birlikci Auriane Boudin Ryo Ishii Jeffrey M. Girard Louis-Philippe Morency GeSTICS: A Multimodal Corpus for Studying Gesture Synthesis in Two-party Interactions with Contextualized Speech. 11:1-11:10 2024 IVA https://doi.org/10.1145/3652988.3673917 conf/iva/2024 db/conf/iva/iva2024.html#KebeBBIGM24 Jeffrey M. Girard Yanmei Tie Einat Liebenthal DynAMoS: The Dynamic Affective Movie Clip Database for Subjectivity Analysis. 1-8 2023 ACII https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII59096.2023.10388135 conf/acii/2023 db/conf/acii/acii2023.html#GirardTL23 Alexandria K. Vail Jeffrey M. Girard Lauren M. Bylsma Jay Fournier Holly A. Swartz Jeffrey F. Cohn Louis-Philippe Morency Representation Learning for Interpersonal and Multimodal Behavior Dynamics: A Multiview Extension of Latent Change Score Models. 517-526 2023 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/3577190.3614118 conf/icmi/2023 db/conf/icmi/icmi2023.html#VailGBFSCM23 Alexandria K. Vail Jeffrey M. Girard Lauren M. Bylsma Jeffrey F. Cohn Jay Fournier Holly Swartz Louis-Philippe Morency Toward Causal Understanding of Therapist-Client Relationships: A Study of Language Modality and Social Entrainment. 487-494 2022 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556616 conf/icmi/2022 db/conf/icmi/icmi2022.html#VailGBCFSM22 Alexandria K. Vail Jeffrey M. Girard Lauren M. Bylsma Jeffrey F. Cohn Jay Fournier Holly Swartz Louis-Philippe Morency Goals, Tasks, and Bonds: Toward the Computational Assessment of Therapist Versus Client Perception of Working Alliance. 1-8 2021 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG52635.2021.9667021 conf/fgr/2021 db/conf/fgr/fg2021.html#VailGBCFSM21 Pieter Wolfert Jeffrey M. Girard Taras Kucherenko Tony Belpaeme To Rate or Not To Rate: Investigating Evaluation Methods for Generated Co-Speech Gestures. 494-502 2021 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/3462244.3479889 conf/icmi/2021 db/conf/icmi/icmi2021.html#WolfertGKB21

Pieter Wolfert Jeffrey M. Girard Taras Kucherenko Tony Belpaeme To Rate or Not To Rate: Investigating Evaluation Methods for Generated Co-Speech Gestures. 2021 abs/2108.05709 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05709 db/journals/corr/corr2108.html#abs-2108-05709

Victoria Lin 0001 Jeffrey M. Girard Louis-Philippe Morency Context-Dependent Models for Predicting and Characterizing Facial Expressiveness. 11-28 2020 AffCon@AAAI https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2614/AffCon20_session1_context.pdf conf/aaai/2020affcon db/conf/aaai/affcon2020.html#0001GM20 Michal Muszynski Jamie Zelazny Jeffrey M. Girard Louis-Philippe Morency Depression Severity Assessment for Adolescents at High Risk of Mental Disorders. 70-78 2020 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418859 conf/icmi/2020 db/conf/icmi/icmi2020.html#MuszynskiZGM20 Victoria Lin 0001 Jeffrey M. Girard Michael A. Sayette Louis-Philippe Morency Toward Multimodal Modeling of Emotional Expressiveness. 548-557 2020 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418887 conf/icmi/2020 db/conf/icmi/icmi2020.html#0001GSM20

Victoria Lin 0001 Jeffrey M. Girard Michael A. Sayette Louis-Philippe Morency Toward Multimodal Modeling of Emotional Expressiveness. 2020 abs/2009.00001 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00001 db/journals/corr/corr2009.html#abs-2009-00001

Daniel McDuff Jeffrey M. Girard Democratizing Psychological Insights from Analysis of Nonverbal Behavior. 220-226 2019 ACII https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII.2019.8925503 conf/acii/2019 db/conf/acii/acii2019.html#McDuffG19 Jeffrey M. Girard Gayatri Shandar Zhun Liu Jeffrey F. Cohn Lijun Yin 0001 Louis-Philippe Morency Reconsidering the Duchenne Smile: Indicator of Positive Emotion or Artifact of Smile Intensity? 594-599 2019 ACII https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII.2019.8925535 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94503447 conf/acii/2019 db/conf/acii/acii2019.html#GirardSLCYM19 Kaixin Ma Xinyu Wang Xinru Yang Mingtong Zhang Jeffrey M. Girard Louis-Philippe Morency ElderReact: A Multimodal Dataset for Recognizing Emotional Response in Aging Adults. 349-357 2019 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/3340555.3353747 conf/icmi/2019 db/conf/icmi/icmi2019.html#MaWYZGM19

Victoria Lin 0001 Jeffrey M. Girard Louis-Philippe Morency Context-Dependent Models for Predicting and Characterizing Facial Expressiveness. 2019 abs/1912.04523 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04523 db/journals/corr/corr1912.html#abs-1912-04523

Jeffrey M. Girard Wen-Sheng Chu László A. Jeni Jeffrey F. Cohn Sayette Group Formation Task (GFT) Spontaneous Facial Expression Database. 581-588 2017 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2017.144 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2017.144 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55211216 conf/fgr/2017 db/conf/fgr/fg2017.html#GirardCJC17 Jeffrey M. Girard Daniel McDuff Historical Heterogeneity Predicts Smiling: Evidence from Large-Scale Observational Analyses. 719-726 2017 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2017.135 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2017.135 conf/fgr/2017 db/conf/fgr/fg2017.html#GirardM17 Michel F. Valstar Enrique Sánchez-Lozano Jeffrey F. Cohn László A. Jeni Jeffrey M. Girard Zheng Zhang 0023 Lijun Yin 0001 Maja Pantic FERA 2017 - Addressing Head Pose in the Third Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge. 839-847 2017 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2017.107 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2017.107 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q52614651 conf/fgr/2017 db/conf/fgr/fg2017.html#ValstarSCJGZYP17 Jeffrey M. Girard Open-Source Software for Continuous Measurement and Media Annotation. 995 2017 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2017.151 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2017.151 conf/fgr/2017 db/conf/fgr/fg2017.html#Girard17

Michel F. Valstar Enrique Sánchez-Lozano Jeffrey F. Cohn László A. Jeni Jeffrey M. Girard Zheng Zhang 0023 Lijun Yin 0001 Maja Pantic FERA 2017 - Addressing Head Pose in the Third Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge. 2017 abs/1702.04174 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04174 db/journals/corr/corr1702.html#ValstarSCJGZYP17

Zheng Zhang 0023 Jeffrey M. Girard Yue Wu 0002 Xing Zhang 0012 Peng Liu 0039 Umur A. Ciftci Shaun J. Canavan Michael Reale Andrew Horowitz Huiyuan Yang Jeffrey F. Cohn Qiang Ji Lijun Yin 0001 Multimodal Spontaneous Emotion Corpus for Human Behavior Analysis. 3438-3446 2016 CVPR https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2016.374 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CVPR.2016.374 conf/cvpr/2016 db/conf/cvpr/cvpr2016.html#ZhangGWZLCCRHYC16

Jeffrey M. Girard Jeffrey F. Cohn Fernando De la Torre Estimating smile intensity: A better way. 13-21 2015 66 Pattern Recognit. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2014.10.004 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30667362 db/journals/prl/prl66.html#GirardCT15

Michel François Valstar Timur R. Almaev Jeffrey M. Girard Gary McKeown Marc Mehu Lijun Yin 0001 Maja Pantic Jeffrey F. Cohn FERA 2015 - second Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis challenge. 1-8 2015 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2015.7284874 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2015.7284874 conf/fgr/2015 db/conf/fgr/fg2015.html#ValstarAGMMYPC15 Jeffrey M. Girard Jeffrey F. Cohn László A. Jeni Simon Lucey Fernando De la Torre How much training data for facial action unit detection? 1-8 2015 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2015.7163106 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2015.7163106 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q31106430 conf/fgr/2015 db/conf/fgr/fg2015.html#GirardCJLT15 László A. Jeni Jeffrey M. Girard Jeffrey F. Cohn Takeo Kanade Real-time dense 3D face alignment from 2D video with automatic facial action unit coding. 1 2015 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2015.7163165 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2015.7163165 conf/fgr/2015 db/conf/fgr/fg2015.html#JeniGCK15

Jeffrey M. Girard Jeffrey F. Cohn Mohammad H. Mahoor Seyed Mohammad Mavadati Zakia Hammal Dean P. Rosenwald Nonverbal social withdrawal in depression: Evidence from manual and automatic analyses. 641-647 2014 32 Image Vis. Comput. 10 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2013.12.007 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34443596 db/journals/ivc/ivc32.html#GirardCMMHR14

Xing Zhang 0012 Lijun Yin 0001 Jeffrey F. Cohn Shaun J. Canavan Michael Reale Andy Horowitz Peng Liu 0039 Jeffrey M. Girard BP4D-Spontaneous: a high-resolution spontaneous 3D dynamic facial expression database. 692-706 2014 32 Image Vis. Comput. 10 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2014.06.002 db/journals/ivc/ivc32.html#ZhangYCCRHLG14

Jeffrey M. Girard Perceptions of Interpersonal Behavior are Influenced by Gender, Facial Expression Intensity, and Head Pose. 394-398 2014 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/2663204.2667575 conf/icmi/2014 db/conf/icmi/icmi2014.html#Girard14 Jeffrey M. Girard Jeffrey F. Cohn Mohammad H. Mahoor Seyed Mohammad Mavadati Dean P. Rosenwald Social risk and depression: Evidence from manual and automatic facial expression analysis. 1-8 2013 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2013.6553748 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2013.6553748 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37605149 conf/fgr/2013 db/conf/fgr/fg2013.html#GirardCMMR13 László A. Jeni Jeffrey M. Girard Jeffrey F. Cohn Fernando De la Torre Continuous AU intensity estimation using localized, sparse facial feature space. 1-7 2013 FG https://doi.org/10.1109/FG.2013.6553808 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FG.2013.6553808 conf/fgr/2013 db/conf/fgr/fg2013.html#JeniGCT13 Jeffrey M. Girard Jeffrey F. Cohn Criteria and metrics for thresholded AU detection. 2191-2197 2011 ICCV Workshops https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130519 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130519 conf/iccvw/2011 db/conf/iccvw/iccvw2011.html#GirardC11 Vasu Agrawal Akinniyi Akinyemi Timur R. Almaev Kathryn Alvero Justin T. Baker Morteza Behrooz Tony Belpaeme Mehmet Deniz Birlikci Auriane Boudin Julia Buffalini Lauren M. Bylsma Shaun J. Canavan Fabio Maria Carlucci Joy Chen Junming Chen Zhang Chen Shiyang Cheng Praveen Chowdary Wen-Sheng Chu Joe Chuang Umur A. Ciftci Jeffrey F. Cohn Jon Daly Antony D'Avirro Ning Dong Mark Duppenthaler Jay Fournier Cynthia Gao Martin Gleize Sahir Gomez Hongyu Gong Srivathsan Govindarajan Zakia Hammal Brandon Han Sen He 0001 Denise Hernandez Andrew Horowitz Andy Horowitz Yordan Hristov Rongjie Huang Hirofumi Inaguma Ryo Ishii Somya Jain Raj Janardhan László A. Jeni Qiang Ji Qingyao Jia Takeo Kanade Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe Christopher Klaiber Dejan Kovachev Taras Kucherenko Moneish Kumar Hang Li Yilei Li Einat Liebenthal Victoria Lin 0001 Pavel Litvin Peng Liu 0039 Wei Liu 0005 Zhun Liu Simon Lucey Guangyao Ma Jing Ma Kaixin Ma Martin Ma Xutai Ma Mohammad H. Mahoor Lucas Mantovani Seyed Mohammad Mavadati Daniel McDuff Gary McKeown Marc Mehu Sagar Miglani Sreyas Mohan Louis-Philippe Morency Michal Muszynski Evonne Ng Kam-Woh Ng Tu Anh Nguyen Amia Oberai Maja Pantic Benjamin N. Peloquin Juan Pino 0001 Jovan Popovic Omid Poursaeed Fabian Prada Alice Rakotoarison Rakesh Ranjan Michael Reale Alexander Richard Christophe Ropers Dean P. Rosenwald Safiyyah Saleem Enrique Sánchez-Lozano Michael A. Sayette Gayatri Shandar Vasu Sharma Alex Shcherbyna Jia Shen Jie Shen Anastasis Stathopoulos Anna Y. Sun Holly SwartzHolly A. Swartz Yanmei Tie Paden Tomasello Fernando De la Torre Tuan Tran Arina Turkatenko Alexandria K. Vail Michel F. ValstarMichel François Valstar Jacqueline R. Vertino Bo Wan Chao Wang 0028 Jeff Wang Xinyu Wang Mary Williamson Pieter Wolfert Carleigh Wood Yue Wu 0002 Tao Xiang 0001 Huiyuan Yang Xinru Yang Yilin Yang Julien Yao Lijun Yin 0001 Jamie Zelazny Chen Zhang Jiemin Zhang Mingtong Zhang Xing Zhang 0012 Xinyue Zhang Zheng Zhang 0023 Jason Zheng Pavlo Zhyzheria Jan Zikes Michael Zollhöfer