Emotion recognition in modern distant education system by using neural networks and SVM

Abstract

Modern distant education (or e-Learning or eLearning) is a type of Technology supported education/learning (TSL) where the medium of instruction is through computer technology, particularly involving digital technologies. Aiming at emotion deficiency in present modern distant education system, a lot of negative effects were analyzed and corresponding countermeasures were proposed. Basing on it, we combined affective computing with the modern distant education system. The model of modern distant education system based on affective computing was constructed by using speech emotion and facial emotion, which took speech feature and facial emotion as input data. The key technologies of Speech Emotion Recognition based on Neural Networks and Facial Emotion Recognition based on SVM have been proposed. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.