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SocialSense: A Collaborative Mobile Platform for Speaker and Mood Identification

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Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2015)

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We present SocialSense , a collaborative smartphone based speaker and mood identification and reporting system that uses a user’s voice to detect and log his/her speaking and mood episodes. SocialSense collaboratively works with other phones that are running the app present in the vicinity to periodically send/receive speaking and mood vectors to/from other users present in a social interaction setting, thus keeping track of the global speaking episodes of all users with their mood. In addition, it utilizes a novel event-adaptive dynamic classification scheme for speaker identification which updates the speaker classification model every time one or more users enter or leave the scenario, ensuring a most updated classifier based on user presence. Evaluation of using dynamic classifiers shows that SocialSense improves speaker identification accuracy by 30% compared to traditional static speaker identification systems, and a 10% to 43% performance boost under various noisy environments. SocialSense also improves the mood classification accuracy by 4% to 20% compared to the baseline approaches. Energy consumption experiments show that its device daily lifetime is between 10-14 hours.

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Ahmed, M.Y., Kenkeremath, S., Stankovic, J. (2015). SocialSense: A Collaborative Mobile Platform for Speaker and Mood Identification. In: Abdelzaher, T., Pereira, N., Tovar, E. (eds) Wireless Sensor Networks. EWSN 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8965. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15582-1_5

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