Fine-Grained Visual Preprocessing and Dual-Stream Temporal Modeling for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis on Social Media
Su Li, Yigong Zhang, Lei Xiong, Chune Li
Abstract
Multimodal sentiment analysis often remains text-dominant due to raw-video noise and insufficient temporal modeling. Using CH-SIMS v2.0S, this study proposes three improvements: the NAPS pipeline---a seven-stage system integrating face tracking,identity embedding, and normalized lip-motion analysis to reduce visual noise;DS-TANet, combining an EfficientNetB2 static stream, RAFT optical-flow motion stream, motion-guided attention, and Bi-GRU temporal modeling; and DS-TAFNet, fusing visual and MacBERT-Base textual representations via concatenation fusion. With NAPS, the static visual baseline achieves 80.98\% Macro F1, comparable to the text baseline of 80.55\%; DS-TANet improves visual Macro F1 to 82.58\%;and DS-TAFNet achieves 87.49\% accuracy and 87.48\% Macro F1. These results demonstrate that improving visual input quality and temporal representation is more effective than increasing fusion complexity under limited-data conditions.