A mixed bag of emotions: Model, predict, and transfer emotion distributions

Kuan Chuan Peng, Tsuhan Chen, Amir Sadovnik, Andrew Gallagher

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Abstract

This paper explores two new aspects of photos and human emotions. First, we show through psychovisual studies that different people have different emotional reactions to the same image, which is a strong and novel departure from previous work that only records and predicts a single dominant emotion for each image. Our studies also show that the same person may have multiple emotional reactions to one image. Predicting emotions in 'distributions' instead of a single dominant emotion is important for many applications. Second, we show not only that we can often change the evoked emotion of an image by adjusting color tone and texture related features but also that we can choose in which 'emotional direction' this change occurs by selecting a target image. In addition, we present a new database, Emotion6, containing distributions of emotions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages860-868
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781467369640
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 14 2015
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015 - Boston, United States
Duration: Jun 7 2015Jun 12 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume07-12-June-2015
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period06/7/1506/12/15

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