  The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2019) "State-of-Mind,
Detecting Depression with AI, and Cross-cultural Affect Recognition" is the
ninth competition event aimed at the comparison of multimedia processing and
machine learning methods for automatic audiovisual health and emotion analysis,
with all participants competing strictly under the same conditions. The goal of
the Challenge is to provide a common benchmark test set for multimodal
information processing and to bring together the health and emotion recognition
communities, as well as the audiovisual processing communities, to compare the
relative merits of various approaches to health and emotion recognition from
real-life data. This paper presents the major novelties introduced this year,
the challenge guidelines, the data used, and the performance of the baseline
systems on the three proposed tasks: state-of-mind recognition, depression
assessment with AI, and cross-cultural affect sensing, respectively.
