Anchor models for emotion recognition from speech

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 280-290

  Attabi, Yazid ^a   Dumouchel, Pierre ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anchor models; children's speech; emotion recognition; GMM model; skewed distribution; WCCN

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR MODELS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; EMOTION RECOGNITION; SKEWED DISTRIBUTION; WCCN;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

EID: 84886508198     PISSN: 19493045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-AFFC.2013.17     Document Type: Article

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