An ensemble learning-enhanced multitask learning method for continuous affect recognition from facial images

E Pei, Z Hu, L He, H Ning, AD Berenguer - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Continuous affect recognition from facial images aims to estimate the values of multiple
affective dimensions from a facial image sequence. To leverage relevant information …

The ambiguous world of emotion representation

V Sethu, EM Provost, J Epps, C Busso… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems have demonstrated huge improvements
and human-level parity in a range of activities, including speech recognition, face …

Estimating the uncertainty in emotion attributes using deep evidential regression

W Wu, C Zhang, PC Woodland - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06760, 2023 - arxiv.org
In automatic emotion recognition (AER), labels assigned by different human annotators to
the same utterance are often inconsistent due to the inherent complexity of emotion and the …

Dimensional affect uncertainty modelling for apparent personality recognition

MK Tellamekala, T Giesbrecht… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite achieving impressive performance, dimensional affect or emotion recognition from
faces is largely based on uncertainty-unaware models that predict only point estimates …

Estimating the uncertainty in emotion class labels with utterance-specific Dirichlet priors

W Wu, C Zhang, X Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emotion recognition is a key attribute for artificial intelligence systems that need to naturally
interact with humans. However, the task definition is still an open problem due to the …

A bayesian filtering framework for continuous affect recognition from facial images

E Pei, Y Zhao, MC Oveneke, D Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous affective state estimation from facial information is a task which requires the
prediction of time series of emotional state outputs from a facial image sequence. Modeling …

Exploring perception uncertainty for emotion recognition in dyadic conversation and music listening

J Han, Z Zhang, Z Ren, B Schuller - Cognitive Computation, 2021 - Springer
Predicting emotions automatically is an active field of research in affective computing.
Considering the property of the individual's subjectivity, the label of an emotional instance is …

End-to-end label uncertainty modeling in speech emotion recognition using bayesian neural networks and label distribution learning

NR Prabhu, N Lehmann-Willenbrock… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To train machine learning algorithms to predict emotional expressions in terms of arousal
and valence, annotated datasets are needed. However, as different people perceive others' …

Dual-Constrained Dynamical Neural ODEs for Ambiguity-aware Continuous Emotion Prediction

J Wu, T Dang, V Sethu, E Ambikairajah - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21344, 2024 - arxiv.org
There has been a significant focus on modelling emotion ambiguity in recent years, with
advancements made in representing emotions as distributions to capture ambiguity …

Apparent personality recognition from uncertainty-aware facial emotion predictions using conditional latent variable models

MK Tellamekala, T Giesbrecht… - 2021 16th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose two key ideas to improve the performance of apparent personality traits
estimation from face videos: 1. using dimensional emotion predictions fused with face image …