Multi-modal Progressive Fusion for ASD Screening Using Smartphone Video
摘要
Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is an important yet challenging task. Traditional screening tools, such as questionnaires and other technical methods, face difficulties in large-scale implementation, such as primary healthcare and home monitoring settings. To address this issue, we develop a smartphone application to highlight atypical eye movement behaviors in children with ASD and extract multi-modal features, including eye movements, head pose, and emotional expressions, from smartphone videos to characterize the subjects’ viewing behavior. Additionally, we propose a multi-modal progressive fusion framework to comprehensively integrate the relationships between different modalities. The progressive fusion strategy combines multi-modal features at multiple scales to achieve attention-based deep fusion. Moreover, we develop a global intra- and inter-modality interaction (GIIMI) module to enhance competition and interaction within and between modalities. In the experiment, we constructed a smartphone video dataset of 124 children aged 3 to 6 years and validated the performance advantages of the proposed algorithm.