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IMAGE: A parallel LSTM network takes in MMCG features with different resolutions and yields outputs that are concatenated together and then sent to a merging LSTM layer and a dense layer. view more
Credit: Masashi Unoki
Ishikawa, Japan - Human beings have the ability to recognize emotions in others, but the same cannot be said for robots. Although perfectly capable of communicating with humans through speech, robots and virtual agents are only good at processing logical instructions, which greatly restricts human-robot interaction (HRI). Consequently, a great deal of research in HRI is about emotion recognition from speech. But first, how do we describe emotions?