The SRI AVEC-2014 evaluation system

AVEC 2014 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge, Workshop of MM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 93-101

  Mitra, Vikramjit ^a   Kathol, Andreas ^a   Shriberg, Elizabeth ^a   Richey, Colleen ^a   Graciarena, Martin ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic features; Articulatory features; Decision trees; Depression; Prosody; Robust signal analysis; Support vector regression; Time series prediction

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ARTICULATORY FEATURES; DEPRESSION; PROSODY; TIME SERIES PREDICTION;

SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION;

DECISION MAKING; ERRORS; EVALUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84919341100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2661806.2661818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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