Fusion of fragmentary classifier decisions for affective state recognition

Abstract

Real human-computer interaction systems based on different modalities face the problem that not all information channels are always available at regular time steps. Nevertheless an estimation of the current user state is required at anytime to enable the system to interact instantaneously based on the available modalities. A novel approach to decision fusion of fragmentary classifications is therefore proposed and empirically evaluated for audio and video signals of a corpus of non-acted user behavior. It is shown that visual and prosodic analysis successfully complement each other leading to an outstanding performance of the fusion architecture. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.