Emotion recognition in talking-face videos using persistent entropy and neural networks

The automatic recognition of a person’s emotional state has become a very active research field that involves scientists specialized in different areas such as artificial intelligence, computer vi sion, or psychology, among others. Our main objective in this work is to develop a novel approach, usin...

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Autores: Paluzo Hidalgo, Eduardo, González Díaz, Rocío, Aguirre Carrazana, Guilermo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/134861
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/134861
https://doi.org/10.3934/era.2022034
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Topological data analysis
Persistent homology
Persistent entropy
Neural networks
Audio-visual emotion recognition
Talking-face videos
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Sumario:The automatic recognition of a person’s emotional state has become a very active research field that involves scientists specialized in different areas such as artificial intelligence, computer vi sion, or psychology, among others. Our main objective in this work is to develop a novel approach, using persistent entropy and neural networks as main tools, to recognise and classify emotions from talking-face videos. Specifically, we combine audio-signal and image-sequence information to com pute a topology signature (a 9-dimensional vector) for each video. We prove that small changes in the video produce small changes in the signature, ensuring the stability of the method. These topological signatures are used to feed a neural network to distinguish between the following emotions: calm, happy, sad, angry, fearful, disgust, and surprised. The results reached are promising and competitive, beating the performances achieved in other state-of-the-art works found in the literature.