Voting ensembles for spoken affect classification

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1356-1365

  Morrison, Donn ^a   De Silva, Liyanage C ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Affect recognition; Emotion recognition; Ensemble methods; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AFFECT RECOGNITION; EMOTION RECOGNITION; ENSEMBLE METHODS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547954381     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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