The SEMAINE database: Annotated multimodal records of emotionally colored conversations between a person and a limited agent

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-17

  McKeown, Gary ^a   Valstar, Michel ^b   Cowie, Roddy ^a   Pantic, Maja ^b,c   Schröder, Marc ^d  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

affective annotation; affective computing; Emotional corpora; social signal processing

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE ANNOTATION; AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; AUDIO-VISUAL DATABASE; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; EMOTIONAL CORPORA; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE APPROACH; MULTI-MODAL; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; USER ENGAGEMENT; USER INTERACTION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859899698     PISSN: 19493045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-AFFC.2011.20     Document Type: Article

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