Using multiple databases for training in emotion recognition: To unite or to vote?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1553-1556

  Schuller, Björn ^a   Zhang, Zixing ^a   Weninger, Felix ^a   Rigoll, Gerhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross corpus; Data agglomeration; Emotion recognition

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CORPUS; DECISION LEVEL FUSION; EMOTION RECOGNITION; LATE FUSION; MAJORITY VOTING; RANDOM FORESTS;

AGGLOMERATION; DECISION TREES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865709244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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