Title
Mutual Correlation Attentive Factors in Dyadic Fusion Networks for Speech Emotion Recognition
Abstract
Emotion recognition in dyadic communication is challenging because: 1. Extracting informative modality-specific representations requires disparate feature extractor designs due to the heterogenous input data formats. 2. How to effectively and efficiently fuse unimodal features and learn associations between dyadic utterances are critical to the model generalization in actual scenario. 3. Disagreeing annotations prevent previous approaches from precisely predicting emotions in context. To address the above issues, we propose an efficient dyadic fusion network that only relies on an attention mechanism to select representative vectors, fuse modality-specific features, and learn the sequence information. Our approach has three distinct characteristics: 1. Instead of using a recurrent neural network to extract temporal associations as in most previous research, we introduce multiple sub-view attention layers to compute the relevant dependencies among sequential utterances; this significantly improves model efficiency. 2. To improve fusion performance, we design a learnable mutual correlation factor inside each attention layer to compute associations across different modalities. 3. To overcome the label disagreement issue, we embed the labels from all annotators into a k-dimensional vector and transform the categorical problem into a regression problem; this method provides more accurate annotation information and fully uses the entire dataset. We evaluate the proposed model on two published multimodal emotion recognition datasets: IEMOCAP and MELD. Our model significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art research by 3.8%-7.5% accuracy, using a more efficient model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3343031.3351039
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
attention mechanism, dyadic communication, multimodal fusion network, mutual correlation attentive factor., speech emotion recognition
Computer vision,Computer science,Emotion recognition,Speech recognition,Correlation,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2019
978-1-4503-6889-6
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yue Gu1396.08
Xinyu Lyu240.40
Weijia Sun340.40
Weitian Li440.74
Shuhong Chen54910.21
Xinyu Li68837.72
Ivan Marsic771691.96