Maximal Information Coefficient and Predominant Correlation-Based Feature Selection Toward A Three-Layer Model for Speech Emotion Recognition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingfeng Li ◽  
Masato Akagi
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Speech Emotion Recognition ◽  
Layer Model ◽  
Correlation Based Feature Selection ◽  
Information Coefficient ◽  
Maximal Information Coefficient

scholarly journals Impact of Feature Selection Algorithm on Speech Emotion Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 6008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misbah Farooq ◽  
Fawad Hussain ◽  
Naveed Khan Baloch ◽  
Fawad Riasat Raja ◽  
Heejung Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Feature Selection ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Speech Emotion Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Emotional Speech ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Speaker Independent

Speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a significant role in human–machine interaction. Emotion recognition from speech and its precise classification is a challenging task because a machine is unable to understand its context. For an accurate emotion classification, emotionally relevant features must be extracted from the speech data. Traditionally, handcrafted features were used for emotional classification from speech signals; however, they are not efficient enough to accurately depict the emotional states of the speaker. In this study, the benefits of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) for SER are explored. For this purpose, a pretrained network is used to extract features from state-of-the-art speech emotional datasets. Subsequently, a correlation-based feature selection technique is applied to the extracted features to select the most appropriate and discriminative features for SER. For the classification of emotions, we utilize support vector machines, random forests, the k-nearest neighbors algorithm, and neural network classifiers. Experiments are performed for speaker-dependent and speaker-independent SER using four publicly available datasets: the Berlin Dataset of Emotional Speech (Emo-DB), Surrey Audio Visual Expressed Emotion (SAVEE), Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture (IEMOCAP), and the Ryerson Audio Visual Dataset of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS). Our proposed method achieves an accuracy of 95.10% for Emo-DB, 82.10% for SAVEE, 83.80% for IEMOCAP, and 81.30% for RAVDESS, for speaker-dependent SER experiments. Moreover, our method yields the best results for speaker-independent SER with existing handcrafted features-based SER approaches.

scholarly journals Multi-Stage Recognition of Speech Emotion Using Sequential Forward Feature Selection

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Liogienė ◽  
Gintautas Tamulevičius
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Single Stage ◽  
Speech Emotion Recognition ◽  
Forward Selection ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Stage Scheme ◽  
Stage Classification

Abstract The intensive research of speech emotion recognition introduced a huge collection of speech emotion features. Large feature sets complicate the speech emotion recognition task. Among various feature selection and transformation techniques for one-stage classification, multiple classifier systems were proposed. The main idea of multiple classifiers is to arrange the emotion classification process in stages. Besides parallel and serial cases, the hierarchical arrangement of multi-stage classification is most widely used for speech emotion recognition. In this paper, we present a sequential-forward-feature-selection-based multi-stage classification scheme. The Sequential Forward Selection (SFS) and Sequential Floating Forward Selection (SFFS) techniques were employed for every stage of the multi-stage classification scheme. Experimental testing of the proposed scheme was performed using the German and Lithuanian emotional speech datasets. Sequential-feature-selection-based multi-stage classification outperformed the single-stage scheme by 12–42 % for different emotion sets. The multi-stage scheme has shown higher robustness to the growth of emotion set. The decrease in recognition rate with the increase in emotion set for multi-stage scheme was lower by 10–20 % in comparison with the single-stage case. Differences in SFS and SFFS employment for feature selection were negligible.

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