Thermal imaging for affect detection

  • Authors:
  • Verónica Pérez-Rosas;Alexis Narvaez;Mihai Burzo;Rada Mihalcea

  • Affiliations:
  • University of North Texas;University of North Texas;University of North Texas;University of North Texas

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore a thermal imaging approach to sensing affective state. Using features extracted from a thermal map of the face, obtained from a dataset consisting of 70 recordings of positive, negative, or neutral states, we show that we can effectively predict the presence of affect, with an error reduction of up to 50% as compared to a majority class baseline.