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Weakly-Supervised Learning for Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals

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Zhang, Tianyi *
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Abdallah El Ali
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王琛 (Chen Wang)
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Alan Hanjalić
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Pablo César
DOI:10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3158234delete
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Abstract

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Instead of predicting just one emotion for one activity (e.g., video watching), fine-grained emotion recognition enables more temporally precise recognition. Previous works on fine-grained emotion recognition require segment-by-segment, fine-grained emotion labels to train the recognition algorithm. However, experiments to collect these labels are costly and time-consuming compared with only collecting one emotion label after the user watched that stimulus (i.e., the post-stimuli emotion labels). To recognize emotions at a finer granularity level when trained with only post-stimuli labels, we propose an emotion recognition algorithm based on Deep Multiple Instance Learning (EDMIL) using physiological signals. EDMIL recognizes fine-grained valence and arousal (V-A) labels by identifying which instances represent the post-stimuli V-A annotated by users after watching the videos. Instead of fully-supervised training, the instances are weakly-supervised by the post-stimuli labels in the training stage. The V-A of instances are estimated by the instance gains, which indicate the probability of instances to predict the post-stimuli labels. We tested EDMIL on three different datasets, CASE, MERCA and CEAP-360VR, collected in three different environments: desktop, mobile and HMD-based Virtual Reality, respectively. Recognition results validated with the fine-grained V-A self-reports show that for subject-independent 3-class classification (high/neutral/low), EDMIL obtains promising recognition accuracies: 75.63% and 79.73% for V-A on CASE, 70.51% and 67.62% for V-A on MERCA and 65.04% and 67.05% for V-A on CEAP-360VR. Our ablation study shows that all components of EDMIL contribute to both the classification and regression tasks. Our experiments also show that (1) compared with fully-supervised learning, weakly-supervised learning can reduce the problem of overfitting caused by the temporal mismatch between fine-grained annotations and physiological signals, (2) instance segment lengths between 1-2 s result in the highest recognition accuracies and (3) EDMIL performs best if post-stimuli annotations consist of less than 30% or more than 60% of the entire video watching.
Keywords:
Deep multiple instance learning
emotion recognition
physiological signals
temporal ambiguity
weakly-supervised learning

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IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing cover
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
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Delft University of Technology
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