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543
Partner Email:
L.J.M.Rothkrantz@tudelft.nl
Project Title:
Extracting emotions from face-to-face communication
Abstract:
In our life we get more and more dependent on our computer and we have less time for face-to-face social activities with friends and families. In face-to-face communication our faces convey lots of emotions using facial expressions and lots of information is transmitted faster nonverbally than verbally, through the facial expressions. Using lots of modalities like facial expressions, speech and (hand and body) gestures make the communication between the humans multimodal. But the current communication style between human and computer is still dominated by keyboard and mouse and there is no room fr emotions and facial expressions. In order to have a better understanding of human-human communication and to improve the human-computer interaction it is essential to identify and describe the different modalities of human-human communication including collection and annotation of multimodal data. Using the facial expressions, (hand and body) gestures, speech recognition and content awareness make the communication multimodal and enable the computer to adapt itself to the need of the individual users. Our research problem is to localize facial expressions, to label them and research the communication impact. To facilitate the localization we put maskers on the faces of test persons during our experiment. We asked 3 observers (annotators) to watch the recordings of the face-to-face communication and put labels on the segments that contain an emotion. Calculating the level of agreement between the annotators we compared their results with each other and finally we used these labeled segments in our model to extract the different features for each emotion. Using our model we followed the changes of the face during the facial expressions to collect facial features and used these faial features to define emotion clusters. Using these clusters we can start building an automatic emotion extraction tool from face-to-face communications. For defining enough features to recognize the emotions we need a much bigger database. During this project using our data, we extract some features for basic emotions and define clusters to recognize them, like recognizing `sadness\' from `happiness\' and `anger\' from `surprise\'. For making a big more emotion clusters and recognizing more emotions we need more annotated data.
Advisor:
Leon Rothkrantz
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Degree:
Master
Keywords:
Computer Software
Algorithms & problem solving
Artificial intelligence & Neural networks
Computer vision
Data modeling
Image processing
Information systems
