There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

다중혈관 관상동맥 환자에서 y-문합을 이용하여 양쪽 내흉동맥만을 사용한 우회술의 조기 성적

Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

The measurement of meaning

The PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge

Music mood present the inherent emotional state of music on certain duration of music segment. However, the mood may vary in the music pieces. Thus it is important to investigate the duration of music segments which can best present the stable mood states in music. Four versions of music datasets with duration of clips from 4 seconds to 32 seconds are tested in this paper, and a cross test between these four version are also experimented. Better classification rates are obtained with the music segments of 8 seconds and 16 seconds. The segments with duration of 32 seconds are proved as might be not stable concerning the music mood states.

What is the best segment duration for music mood analysis

People with low vision, Alzheimer’s disease, and autism spectrum disorder experience difficulties in perceiving or interpreting facial expression of emotion in their social lives. Though automatic facial expression recognition (FER) methods on 2-D videos have been extensively investigated, their performance was constrained by challenges in head pose and lighting conditions. The shape information in 3-D facial data can reduce or even overcome these challenges. However, high expenses of 3-D cameras prevent their widespread use. Fortunately, 2.5-D facial data from emerging portable RGB-D cameras provide a good balance for this dilemma. In this paper, we propose an automatic emotion annotation solution on 2.5-D facial data collected from RGB-D cameras. The solution consists of a facial landmarking method and a FER method. Specifically, we propose building a deformable partial face model and fit the model to a 2.5-D face for localizing facial landmarks automatically. In FER, a novel action unit (AU) space-based FER method has been proposed. Facial features are extracted using landmarks and further represented as coordinates in the AU space, which are classified into facial expressions. Evaluated on three publicly accessible facial databases, namely EURECOM, FRGC, and Bosphorus databases, the proposed facial landmarking and expression recognition methods have achieved satisfactory results. Possible real-world applications using our algorithms have also been discussed.

Automatic 2.5-D Facial Landmarking and Emotion Annotation for Social Interaction Assistance

We investigate the role that geometric, textual and visual features play in the task of predicting a preposition that links two visual entities depicted in an image. The task is an important part of the subsequent process of generating image descriptions. We explore the prediction of prepositions for a pair of entities, both in the case when the labels of such entities are known and unknown. In all situations we found clear evidence that all three features contribute to the prediction task.

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Combining Geometric, Textual and Visual Features for Predicting Prepositions in Image Descriptions

This paper provides a description of the MediaEval 2018 “Emotional Impact of Movies task". It continues to build on last year’s edition, integrating the feedback of previous participants. The goal is to create systems that automatically predict the emotional impact that video content will have on viewers, in terms of valence, arousal and fear. Here we provide a description of the use case, task challenges, dataset and ground truth, task run requirements and evaluation metrics.

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The MediaEval 2016 Emotional Impact of Movies Task

This paper deals with speech emotion analysis within the context of increasing awareness of the wide application potential of affective computing. Unlike most works in the literature which mainly rely on classical frequency and energy based features along with a single global classifier for emotion recognition, we propose in this paper some new harmonic and Zipf based features for better speech emotion characterization in the valence dimension and a multistage classification scheme driven by a dimensional emotion model for better emotional class discrimination. Experimented on the Berlin dataset with 68 features and six emotion states, our approach shows its effectiveness, displaying a 68.60% classification rate and reaching a 71.52% classification rate when a gender classification is first applied. Using the DES dataset with five emotion states, our approach achieves an 81% recognition rate when the best performance in the literature to our knowledge is 76.15% on the same dataset.

Emmanuel Dellandréa

Papers

What is the best segment duration for music mood analysis

Automatic 2.5-D Facial Landmarking and Emotion Annotation for Social Interaction Assistance

Combining Geometric, Textual and Visual Features for Predicting Prepositions in Image Descriptions

The MediaEval 2016 Emotional Impact of Movies Task

Recognition of emotions in speech by a hierarchical approach