Emotion Recognition Modulating the Behavior of Intelligent Systems

The paper presents an audio-based emotion recognition system that is able to classify emotions as anger, fear, happy, neutral, sadness or disgust in real time. We use the virtual coach as an application example of how emotion recognition can be used to modulate intelligent systems´ behavior. A novel minimum-error feature removal mechanism to reduce bandwidth and increase accuracy of our emotion recognition system has been introduced. A two-stage hierarchical classification approach along with a One-Against-All (OAA) framework are used. We obtained an average accuracy of 82.07% using the OAA approach, and 87.70% with a two-stage hierarchical approach, by pruning the feature set and using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for classification.