Title
Semantic feature projection for continuous emotion analysis
Abstract
Affective computing researchers have recently been focusing on continuous emotion dimensions like arousal and valence. This dual coordinate affect space can explain many of the discrete emotions like sadness, anger, joy, etc. In the area of continuous emotion recognition, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) models are generally used to enhance the performance of various image and audio features by projecting them to a new space where the new features are less correlated. We instead, propose that quantizing and projecting the features to a latent topic space performs better than PCA. Specifically we extract these topic features using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models. We show that topic models project the original features to a latent feature space that is more coherent and useful for continuous emotion recognition than PCA. Unlike PCA where no semantics can be attributed to the new features, topic features can have a visual and semantic interpretation which can be used in personalized HCI applications and Assistive technologies. Our hypothesis in this work has been validated using the AVEC 2012 continuous emotion challenge dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2647868.2655042
ACM Multimedia 2001
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature representation,continuous affect recognition,topic models,dimension reduction,feature comparison
Computer vision,Feature vector,Latent Dirichlet allocation,Dimensionality reduction,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Semantic interpretation,Artificial intelligence,Affective computing,Semantic feature,Topic model,Semantics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Prasanth Lade1375.37
Troy L. McDaniel210124.56
Sethuraman Panchanathan31431152.04