Automated Depression Diagnosis Based on Deep Networks to Encode Facial Appearance and Dynamics

As a severe psychiatric disorder disease, depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity, which prevents a person from functioning normally in both work and daily lives. The study on automated mental health assessment has been given increasing attentions in recent years. In this paper, we study the problem of automatic diagnosis of depression. A new approach to predict the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) values from video data...