Cited by 53Emotion and Mood RecognitionSentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningSpeech and Audio Processing

Temporal Bayesian Fusion for Affect Sensing: Combining Video, Audio, and Lexical Modalities

Savran, Arman, Houwei Cao, Nenkova, Ani, Verma, Ragini·2015·IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Abstract

The affective state of people changes in the course of conversations and these changes are expressed externally in a variety of channels, including facial expressions, voice, and spoken words. Recent advances in automatic sensing of affect, through cues in individual modalities, have been remarkable; yet emotion recognition is far from a solved problem. Recently, researchers have turned their attention to the problem of multimodal affect sensing in the hope that combining different information sources would provide great improvements. However, reported results fall short of the expectations, indicating only modest benefits and occasionally even degradation in performance. We develop temporal Bayesian fusion for continuous real-value estimation of valence, arousal, power, and expectancy dimensions of affect by combining video, audio, and lexical modalities. Our approach provides substantial gains in recognition performance compared to previous work. This is achieved by the use of a powerful temporal prediction model as prior in Bayesian fusion as well as by incorporating uncertainties about the unimodal predictions. The temporal prediction model makes use of time correlations on the affect sequences and employs estimated temporal biases to control the affect estimations at the beginning of conversations. In contrast to other recent methods for combination of modalities our model is simpler, since it does not model relationships between modalities and involves only a few interpretable parameters to be estimated from the training data.

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Authors
Savran, A., Cao, H., Nenkova, A., & Verma, R.
Affiliations
University of Pennsylvania (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Published
2015-09
Volume
45
Issue
9
Pages
1927-1941
ISSN
  • 2168-2267 (ISSN-L)
  • 2168-2275
OpenAlex
W2086655908
Cited by
53
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 1
FWCI
4.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
NIH Clinical Center (R01-MH-073174)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Speech and Audio Processing
Keywords
affective computing, multimodal emotion recognition, Bayesian fusion, valence, arousal, power, expectancy, video, audio, lexical cues, uncertainty estimation, temporal bias
MeSH terms
Bayes Theorem, Emotions, Facial Expression, Humans, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Video Recording

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