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Emotion Prediction of Sound Events Based on Transfer Learning

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Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN 2017)

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Processing generalized sound events with the purpose of predicting the emotion they might evoke is a relatively young research field. Tools, datasets, and methodologies to address such a challenging task are still under development, far from any standardized format. This work aims to cover this gap by revealing and exploiting potential similarities existing during the perception of emotions evoked by sound events and music. o this end we propose (a) the usage of temporal modulation features and (b) a transfer learning module based on an Echo State Network assisting the prediction of valence and arousal measurements associated with generalized sound events. The effectiveness of the proposed transfer learning solution is demonstrated after a thoroughly designed experimental phase employing both sound and music data. The results demonstrate the importance of transfer learning in the specific field and encourage further research on approaches which manage the problem in a cooperative way.

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The research leading to these results has received partial funding from European Union HORIZON 2020 fast track to innovation project no. 691131 REMOSIS.

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Ntalampiras, S., Potamitis, I. (2017). Emotion Prediction of Sound Events Based on Transfer Learning. In: Boracchi, G., Iliadis, L., Jayne, C., Likas, A. (eds) Engineering Applications of Neural Networks. EANN 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 744. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65172-9_26

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