Measuring Depression Symptom Severity from Spoken Language and 3D Facial Expressions

Understand

With more than 300 million people depressed worldwide, depression is a global problem.

• Due to access barriers such as social stigma, cost, and treatment availability, 60% of mentally-ill adults do not receive any mental health services.
• Effective and efficient diagnosis relies on detecting clinical symptoms of depression.
• Automatic detection of depressive symptoms would potentially improve diagnostic accuracy and availability, leading to faster intervention.