AVEC 2012 - The continuous audio/visual emotion challenge

ICMI'12 - Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 449-456

  Schuller, Björn ^a   Valstar, Michel ^b   Eyben, Florian ^c   Cowie, Roddy ^d   Pantic, Maja ^e  

^a JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Challenge; Emotion recognition; Facial expression; Speech

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; AUDIO AND VIDEO; AUDIO-VISUAL; BASELINE SYSTEMS; CHALLENGE; EMOTION RECOGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS;

SPEECH;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870223036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2388676.2388776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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