Image Sentiment Analysis Using Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Visual media is one of the most powerful channel for expressing emotions and sentiments. Social media users are gradually using multimedia like images, videos etc. for expressing their opinions, views and experiences. Sentiment analysis of this vast user generated visual content can aid in better and improved extraction of user sentiments. This motivated us to focus on determining ‘image sentiment analyses’. Significant advancement has been made in this area, however, there is lot more to focus on visual sentiment analysis using deep learning techniques. In our study, we aim to design a visual sentiment framework using a convolutional neural network. For experimentation, we employ the use of Flickr images for training purposes and Twitter images for testing purposes. The results depict that the proposed ‘visual sentiment framework using convolutional neural network’ shows improved performance for analyzing the sentiments associated with the images.