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A Survey of Affect Recognition Methods: Audio, Visual, and Spontaneous Expressions

Zhihong Zeng, Pantic, M., Roisman, G.I., Huang, T.S.·2009·IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Abstract

Automated analysis of human affective behavior has attracted increasing attention from researchers in psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and related disciplines. However, the existing methods typically handle only deliberately displayed and exaggerated expressions of prototypical emotions despite the fact that deliberate behaviour differs in visual appearance, audio profile, and timing from spontaneously occurring behaviour. To address this problem, efforts to develop algorithms that can process naturally occurring human affective behaviour have recently emerged. Moreover, an increasing number of efforts are reported toward multimodal fusion for human affect analysis including audiovisual fusion, linguistic and paralinguistic fusion, and multi-cue visual fusion based on facial expressions, head movements, and body gestures. This paper introduces and surveys these recent advances. We first discuss human emotion perception from a psychological perspective. Next we examine available approaches to solving the problem of machine understanding of human affective behavior, and discuss important issues like the collection and availability of training and test data. We finally outline some of the scientific and engineering challenges to advancing human affect sensing technology.

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  • Linking two modalities into a single system for affective computing analysis is not new and has been studied before.

    “Linking two modalities into a single system for affective computing analysis is not new and has been studied before (Chen, 2000; Zeng, Pantic, Roisman, & Huang, 2009).”

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  • It is generally accepted in the literature that multimodal sensor combinations have complementary effects and thus may increase model accuracy.

    “It is generally accepted in the literature that multimodal (e.g., audiovisual) sensor combinations have complementary effects and thus may increase model accuracy [11].”

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Authors
Zeng, Z., Pantic, M., Roisman, G. I., & Huang, T. S.
Affiliations
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Published
2009-01
Volume
31
Issue
1
Pages
39-58
ISSN
0162-8828 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2156503193
Cited by
2,797
References
14
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Twente Research Information (publishedVersion)
  • University of Twente Research Information (submittedVersion)
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
affect recognition, emotion recognition, audiovisual integration, multimodal fusion, paralinguistic cues, facial expressions, body gestures, head movement, training data collection
MeSH terms
Affect, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Emotions, Facial Expression, Monitoring, Physiologic, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Sound Spectrography

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