Affect recognition in real-life acoustic conditions - A new perspective on feature selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2044-2048

  Eyben, Florian ^a   Weninger, Felix ^a   Schuller, Björn ^a,b  

^a AUDEERING GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic features; Affect; Emotion; Noise robustness; Paralinguistics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; LINGUISTICS;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AFFECT; EMOTION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; PARALINGUISTICS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84903770147     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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