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An Attribute-invariant Variational Learning for Emotion Recognition Using Physiology
Abstract
Studies have shown that people with different personalities would result in a different physiological reaction when encountering emotional stimulus. In this work, we propose an attribute-invariance loss embedded variational autoencoder (AI-VAE) to learn the personality-invariant physiological signal representation. The AI-VAE includes an additional loss aiming to perturb features from different personality polarity to obtain emotion discriminative representation. We evaluate our framework on a large emotion corpus of physiological data. Our method achieves a state of the art unweighted accuracy of 68.8% and 67.0% in a binary classification of arousal and valence, which improves over the baseline vanilla VAE by 5.5% and 6.5%. Further analysis reveals that several EEG features are statistically relevant between different personalities types across emotional states, and ECG features are also specifically correlated to personality dimension of “Creativeness”, underscoring the importance of personality in modulating psychophysiological processes.
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Our proposed Attribute-Invariance loss embedded VAE (AI-VAE) to recognize emotion controlling for personality polarities. The VAEs are pretrained under five different personality dimensions (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism), and the final result is aggregated by late fusion of each SVM classifier.
Our proposed Attribute-Invariance loss embedded VAE (AI-VAE) to recognize emotion controlling for personality polarities. The VAEs are pretrained under five different personality dimensions (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism), and the final result is aggregated by late fusion of each SVM classifier.
Keywords
personality | physiological representation | emotion recognition | variational learning | psychophysiology
Authors
Hao-Chun Yang Chi-Chun Lee
Publication Date
2019/05/12
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
DOI
10.1109/icassp.2019.8683290
Publisher
IEEE