Video2Reaction: Mapping Video to Audience Reaction Distribution in the Wild

arXiv:2607.06875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and forecasting audience reactions to video content are crucial for improving content creation, recommendation systems, and media analysis. To enable audience reaction prediction and other content engagement applications, we introduce $\textbf{Video2Reaction}$, a multimodal dataset that maps short movie segments to a distribution of $\textit{induced emotions}$ of viewers in the wild, as expressed through social media. $\textbf{Video2R...