articleOct 17, 2013FRGREEN OA

AVEC 2013

MVMichel ValstarBWBjörn W. SchullerKSKirsty SmithFEFlorian EybenBJBihan Jiang

University of Nottingham · Technical University of Munich · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

Mood disorders are inherently related to emotion. In particular, the behaviour of people suffering from mood disorders such as unipolar depression shows a strong temporal correlation with the affective dimensions valence and arousal. In addition, psychologists and psychiatrists take the observation of expressive facial and vocal cues into account while evaluating a patient's condition. Depression could result in expressive behaviour such as dampened facial expressions, avoiding eye contact, and using short sentences with flat intonation. It is in this context that we present the third Audio-Visual Emotion recognition Challenge (AVEC 2013). The challenge has two goals logically organised as sub-challenges: the…

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  • Valence (chemistry)
  • Facial expression
  • Arousal
  • Psychology
  • Mood
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Emotional valence
  • Emotion recognition
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