Emotion recognition is a relevant task in human-computer interaction. Several pattern recognition and machine learning techniques have been applied so far in order to assign input audio and/or video sequences to specific emotional classes. This paper introduces a novel approach to the problem, suitable also to more generic sequence recognition tasks. The approach relies on the combination of the recurrent reservoir of an echo state network with a connectionist density estimation module. The reservoir realizes an encoding of the input sequences into a fixed-dimensionality pattern of neuron activations. The density estimator, consisting of a constrained radial basis functions network, evaluates the likelihood of the echo state given the input. Unsupervised training is accomplished within a maximum-likelihood framework. The architecture can then be used for estimating class-conditional probabilities in order to carry out emotion classification within a Bayesian setup. Preliminary experiments in emotion recognition from speech signals from the WaSeP© dataset show that the proposed approach is effective, and it may outperform state-of-the-art classifiers. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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Trentin, E., Scherer, S., & Schwenker, F. (2010). Maximum echo-state-likelihood networks for emotion recognition. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5998 LNAI, pp. 60–71). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12159-3_6
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