Follow key updates for the MPDD-AVG 2026 Challenge.
π Competition Results Announced! The final leaderboard for all 6 sub-tracks is now available. Congratulations to all winners! Please see the Challenge Results section for the full rankings. Paper submission portal is now open β deadline is June 25, 2026, 23:59 AoE.
Official Dataset Released & Codabench Submission Platform Now Open.
The elderly dataset has been updated, please download the latest version from huggingface.
Privacy-constrained raw data has been releasesd.
Code has been updated: the PHQ-9 regression target now uses log1p(PHQ-9). Other than this change, the training, validation, and script workflows remain unchanged.
The dataset has been modified, please download again from HuggingFace.
π’The dataset and baseline code has been released!
Welcome to MPDD-AVG 2026!
Depression is a prevalent mental health disorder affecting individuals across the lifespan, with significant impact on young adults and the elderly population. However, existing depression detection approaches predominantly rely on conversational or interview-based modalities with limited age diversity, while ambulatory behavioral signatures such as gait characteristics β though recognized as important clinical indicators of psychomotor symptoms β remain largely unexplored.
Moreover, current methods establish direct data-to-score mappings without modeling individual differences, overlooking psychomotor domains and the inter-individual heterogeneity attributable to personality profiles, demographic variables, and comorbid conditions.
To address these limitations, we introduce MPDD-AVG, a comprehensive benchmark that uniquely integrates two activities of semi-structured interview behavioral data and gait monitoring from wearable sensors. The challenge is an updated version of MPDD2025 @ ACM MM 2025, which comprises two age-specific datasets: MPDD-Young (110 young adults) investigating academic stress and social functioning, and MPDD-Elderly (110 older adults) examining late-life depression influenced by chronic conditions and living arrangements.
Critically, we provide raw individual difference annotations including Big Five-10 personality dimensions, demographic variables, and health conditions β rather than pre-engineered features only β explicitly encouraging participants to develop innovative personality-conditioned modeling strategies.
220Participants
2Datasets
6Sub-tracks
3Modalities
Big5Personality
What Makes This Challenge Unique?
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Audio-Visual Interview
Semi-structured interviews capturing cognitive-linguistic and affective-paralinguistic behavioral cues from both young adults and elderly participants.
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Gait Analysis via IMU
Wearable IMU sensors capturing walking speed, stride regularity, and postural dynamics as psychomotor indicators of depression.
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Personality-Aware Modeling
Raw Big Five-10 personality annotations with demographic and health condition data to model inter-individual heterogeneity in depressive symptomatology.
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Age-Diverse Population
110 young adults (academic stress, social functioning) and 110 elderly participants (late-life depression, chronic conditions, living arrangements).
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Comprehensive Annotation
PHQ-9 depression scores, Big Five-10 personality traits, demographics, disease labels β the most complete annotation scheme to date.
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Standardized Evaluation
Both classification (binary/ternary/quinary) and regression tasks with composite metrics covering Macro-F1, CCC, and Cohen's Kappa.
Please cite:
Fu, C., Zhang, Y., Shang, M., Zhao, S., Meneses, A., Luo, Z., ... & Schuller, B. (2026). MPDD-AVG: Multimodal Personality-Aware Depression Detection via Audio-Visual Interview and Gait Analysis.
Fu, C., Fu, Z., Zhang, Q., Kuang, X., Dong, J., Su, K., ... & Ishiguro, H. (2025, October). The First MPDD Challenge: Multimodal Personality-aware Depression Detection. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (pp. 13924β13929).