Title
A multi-modal approach to emotion recognition using undirected topic models
Abstract
A multi-modal framework for emotion recognition using bag-of-words features and undirected, replicated softmax topic models is proposed here. Topic models ignore the temporal information between features, allowing them to capture the complex structure without a brute-force collection of statistics. Experiments are performed over face, speech and language features extracted from the USC IEMOCAP database. Performance on facial features yields an unweighted average recall of 60.71%, a relative improvement of 8.89% over state-of-the-art approaches. A comparable performance is achieved when considering only speech (57.39%) or a fusion of speech and face information (66.05%). Individually, each source is shown to be strong at recognizing either sadness (speech) or happiness (face) or neutral (language) emotions, while, a multi-modal fusion retains these properties and improves the accuracy to 68.92%. Implementation time for each source and their combination is provided. Results show that a turn of 1 second duration can be classified in approximately 666.65ms, thus making this method highly amenable for real-time implementation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISCAS.2014.6865245
Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
emotion recognition,face recognition,feature extraction,natural language processing,sensor fusion,speech recognition,USC IEMOCAP database,bag-of-words features,brute-force collection,complex structure,emotion recognition,face feature extraction,facial feature,happiness recognition,language feature extraction,multimodal approach,multimodal fusion,neutral emotions,sadness recognition,speech feature extraction,speech-face information fusion,statistics,temporal information,undirected replicated softmax topic models,undirected topic models,unweighted average recall
Sadness,Softmax function,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Speech recognition,Feature extraction,Speaker recognition,Feature (machine learning),Artificial intelligence,Topic model,Recall,Modal
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0271-4302
3
0.44
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohit Shah1273.11
Chaitali Chakrabarti21978184.17
Andreas S. Spanias352887.90