Multichannel Fusion Based on modified CNN for Image Emotion Recognition

Abstract

Social media networks are an integral part of people’s daily life. Users share images and texts to express their emotions and opinions. Analyzing the image and text content published by these users can help understand and predict user behavior, so as to carry out marketing, public opinion monitoring and personalized recommendation. Weibo, Wechat and other social media are important ways of self-expression. Images are more intuitive than text. Therefore, more scholars begin to pay attention to the research of image emotion analysis. At present, image emotion analysis methods pay seldom attention to the influence of saliency object and face on image emotion expression. Therefore, we propose a multichannel fusion method based on modified CNN for image emotion recognition. Firstly, saliency target and face target region are detected in the whole image. Then feature pyramid is used to improve CNN to recognize saliency target emotion. Weighted loss CNN emotion recognition is constructed on multi-layer supervision module. Finally, the saliency target emotion, face target emotion and the directly recognized emotion on the whole image are fused to get the final result of emotion classification. Experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of image emotion recognition.