Emotion recognition and its application to computer agents with spontaneous interactive capabilities

Author

Nakatsu, Ryohei ; Nicholson, Joy ; Tosa, Naoko

Author_Institution

ATR Media Integration & Commun. Res. Labs., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

444

Abstract

Nonverbal information, such as the emotions, plays an essential role in human communication. Unfortunately, only the verbal aspect of communication has been focused on in communications between humans and computer agents. In the future, however, it is expected that computer agents will have nonverbal as well as verbal communication capabilities. In this paper, we first study the recognition of the emotions involved in human speech. Then we apply this emotion recognition algorithm to a computer agent that plays a character role in the interactive movie system that we are developing

Keywords

cinematography; interactive systems; man-machine systems; multimedia computing; software agents; speech recognition; speech-based user interfaces; character role; computer agents; emotion recognition algorithm; human speech; human-computer communication; interactive movie system; nonverbal information; spontaneous interactive capabilities; Application software; Character recognition; Computer applications; Emotion recognition; Feature extraction; Humans; Motion pictures; Neural networks; Speech processing; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE 3rd Workshop on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5610-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSP.1999.793887

Filename

793887