A Graph Clustering Fusion Network for Depression Recognition

Depression is a common mental illness that has a potential impact on public safety in society. Traditional clinical assessment of depression mainly relies on interviews and scales, which suffer from strong subjectivity and low efficiency. However, current research is difficult to characterize heterogeneous mode alignment, cross-modal fine-grained interaction, and global feature modeling. As a result, it is unable to fully explore the potential information related to depression in multimodal data, which affects the accuracy of depression recognition. Therefore, this study proposes a graph clustering fusion network for depression recognition. Firstly, by using one-dimensional convolution and linear mapping, the video and audio features are unified into the same token space to obtain aligned feature representations; Secondly, a shared Transformer is constructed and a bidirectional feature fusion attention mechanism is designed to model the conditional dependencies between audio and video at the token level; Finally, the fusion token is explicitly modeled as a graph structure, and graph convolution and soft clustering pooling are introduced to extract a small number of task related semantic prototypes, thereby forming a robust global representation. Extensive experiments on public datasets demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the competitors.