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Interactive Robot Learning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition

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Abstract

Interaction plays a critical role in skills learning for natural communication. In human-robot interaction (HRI), robots can get feedback during the interaction to improve their social abilities. In this context, we propose an interactive robot learning framework using multimodal data from thermal facial images and human gait data for online emotion recognition. We also propose a new decision-level fusion method for the multimodal classification using Random Forest (RF) model. Our hybrid online emotion recognition model focuses on the detection of four human emotions (i.e., neutral, happiness, angry, and sadness). After conducting offline training and testing with the hybrid model, the accuracy of the online emotion recognition system is more than 10% lower than the offline one. In order to improve our system, the human verbal feedback is injected into the robot interactive learning. With the new online emotion recognition system, a 12.5% accuracy increase compared with the online system without interactive robot learning is obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Robotics - 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Proceedings
EditorsMiguel A. Salichs, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Emilia Ivanova Barakova, John-John Cabibihan, Alan R. Wagner, Álvaro Castro-González, Hongsheng He
PublisherSpringer
Pages633-642
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030358877
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019
Event11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: 26 Nov 201929 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11876 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period26/11/1929/11/19

Keywords

  • Human-robot interaction
  • Interactive robot learning
  • Multimodal emotion recognition

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