Bimodal fusion of emotional data in an automotive environment

S. Hoch, F. Althoff, G. McGlaun, G. Rigoll

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Abstract

In this work, we present a flexible bimodal approach to person dependent emotion recognition in an automotive environment by adapting an acoustic and a visual monomodal recognizer and combining the individual results on an abstract decision level. The reference database consists of 840 acted audiovisual examples of seven different speakers, expressing the three emotions positive (joy), negative (anger, irritation) and neutral. Concerning the acoustic modul, we calculate the statistics of commonly known low-level features. Facial expressions are evaluated by a SVM classification of gabor-filtered face regions. At the subsequent integration stage, both monomodal decisions are fused by a weighted linear combination. An evaluation of the recorded examples yields an average recognition rate of 90, 7% for the fusion approach. This adds up to a performance gain of nearly 4% compared to the best monomodal recognizer. The system is currently used to improve the usability for automotive infotainment interfaces.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05 - Proceedings - Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Multimedia Signal Processing
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1085-1088
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)0780388747, 9780780388741
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Duration: 18 Mar 200523 Mar 2005

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
VolumeII
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia, PA
Period18/03/0523/03/05

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