Title
Towards Speech Emotion Recognition "In The Wild" Using Aggregated Corpora And Deep Multi-Task Learning
Abstract
One of the challenges in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) "in the wild" is the large mismatch between training and test data (e.g. speakers and tasks). In order to improve the generalisation capabilities of the emotion models, we propose to use Multi-Task Learning (MTL) and use gender and naturalness as auxiliary tasks in deep neural networks. This method was evaluated in within-corpus and various cross-corpus classification experiments that simulate conditions "in the wild". In comparison to Single-Task Learning (STL) based state of the art methods, we found that our MTL method proposed improved performance significantly. Particularly, models using both gender and naturalness achieved more gains than those using either gender or naturalness separately. This benefit was also found in the high-level representations of the feature space, obtained from our method proposed, where discriminative emotional clusters could be observed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.21437/Interspeech.2017-736
18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2017), VOLS 1-6: SITUATED INTERACTION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
speech emotion recognition, computational paralinguistics, deep learning
Conference
abs/1708.03920
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2308-457X
8
0.51
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jae-Bok Kim1304.43
Gwenn Englebienne284645.79
Khiet P. Truong330232.64
Vanessa Evers483680.72