Biometric Russian Audio-Visual Extended MASKS (BRAVE-MASKS) Corpus: Multimodal Mask Type Recognition Task

In this paper, we present a new multimodal corpus called Biometric Russian Audio-Visual Extended MASKS (BRAVE-MASKS), which is designed to analyze voice and facial characteristics of persons wearing various masks, as well as to develop automatic systems for bimodal verification and identification of speakers. In particular, we tackle the multimodal mask type recognition task (6 classes). As a result, audio, visual and multimodal systems were developed, which showed UAR of 54.83%, 72.02% and 82.01%, respectively, on the Test set. These performances are the baseline for the BRAVE-MASKS corpus to compare the follow-up approaches with the proposed systems.