ElderMTL: Multi-Task Affect Monitoring for Elderly Care

Razzhivina, Maria; Tigranyan, Shahane; Avetisyan, Aram; Makarov, Ilya; Savchenko, Andrey

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2026/988

ElderMTL: Multi-Task Affect Monitoring for Elderly Care

Maria Razzhivina, Shahane Tigranyan, Aram Avetisyan, Ilya Makarov, Andrey Savchenko

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Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Demo Track. Pages 8497-8500.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/988

Keywords

AI: Humans and AI
AI: Machine Learning
AI: Computer Vision

Abstract

We present ElderMTL, a multi-task affect monitoring system designed for elderly care settings. The system simultaneously estimates Facial Action Units (FAUs), Valence-Arousal (VA) signals, and categorical emotions (FER) from video, capturing multiple layers of affective information. To improve sensitivity to subtle affective cues common in older adults, our approach incorporates age-conditioned physiological modeling, including baseline muscle adjustments and a dynamic AU co-activation graph. This enables the system to adapt to age-related changes in facial expression patterns, providing more reliable and interpretable emotion assessments. In a live demonstration, we showcase ElderMTL processing video streams, visualizing AU activations, affective state predictions, and interpretable insights that highlight age-specific affective dynamics. This work demonstrates that physiologically grounded, multi-task affective monitoring can provide meaningful, real-world support for elderly care.

Maria Razzhivina, Shahane Tigranyan, Aram Avetisyan, Ilya Makarov, and Andrey Savchenko. 2026. ElderMTL: Multi-Task Affect Monitoring for Elderly Care. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-26. IJCAI, 8497–8500. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/988

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  title     = {ElderMTL: Multi-Task Affect Monitoring for Elderly Care},
  author    = {Razzhivina, Maria and Tigranyan, Shahane and Avetisyan, Aram and Makarov, Ilya and Savchenko, Andrey},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Diego Calvanese},
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  year      = {2026},
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  note      = {Demo Track},
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}

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