1. Deep Temporal Analysis for Non-Acted Body Affect Recognition
- Author
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Gian Luca Foresti, Cristiano Massaroni, Danilo Avola, Alessio Fagioli, and Luigi Cinque
- Subjects
FOS: Computer and information sciences ,3D skeleton ,Computer science ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Non-acted affective computing ,02 engineering and technology ,Machine learning ,computer.software_genre ,Affect (psychology) ,Field (computer science) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Emotion recognition ,Set (psychology) ,Body movement ,business.industry ,Deep learning ,Novelty ,020207 software engineering ,Human-Computer Interaction ,Benchmark (computing) ,Long short-term memory (LSTM) ,Artificial intelligence ,Automatic emotion recognition ,Recurrent neural network (RNN) ,business ,computer ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Software - Abstract
Affective computing is a field of great interest in many computer vision applications, including video surveillance, behaviour analysis, and human-robot interaction. Most of the existing literature has addressed this field by analysing different sets of face features. However, in the last decade, several studies have shown how body movements can play a key role even in emotion recognition. The majority of these experiments on the body are performed by trained actors whose aim is to simulate emotional reactions. These unnatural expressions differ from the more challenging genuine emotions, thus invalidating the obtained results. In this paper, a solution for basic non-acted emotion recognition based on 3D skeleton and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is provided. The proposed work introduces three majors contributions. First, unlike the current state-of-the-art in non-acted body affect recognition, where only static or global body features are considered, in this work also temporal local movements performed by subjects in each frame are examined. Second, an original set of global and time-dependent features for body movement description is provided. Third, to the best of out knowledge, this is the first attempt to use deep learning methods for non-acted body affect recognition. Due to the novelty of the topic, only the UCLIC dataset is currently considered the benchmark for comparative tests. On the latter, the proposed method outperforms all the competitors.
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- 2022