Data-driven clustering in emotional space for affect recognition using discriminatively trained LSTM networks

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1595-1598

  Wöllmer, Martin ^a   Eyben, Florian ^a   Schuller, Björn ^a   Douglas Cowie, Ellen ^b   Cowie, Roddy ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective databases; Emotion recognition; Long short term memory

Indexed keywords

AFFECT RECOGNITION; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTINUOUS SCALE; DATA-DRIVEN; EMOTION RECOGNITION; NEURAL NET; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SYSTEM RESPONSE; TRAINING DATA; VIRTUAL AGENT;

BRAIN; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450186589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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