Multi-class and hierarchical SVMs for emotion recognition

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2354-2357

  Hassan, Ali ^a   Damper, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Hierarchical classification; Multi class classification; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

BINARY DECISION; BINARY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION; STATE OF THE ART; RECOGNIZING EMOTIONS; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EMOTION RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959849983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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