Research Area:  Machine Learning
Emotion recognition is the process to detect, evaluate, interpret, and respond to peoples emotional states and emotions, ranging from happiness to fear to humiliation. The COVID- 19 epidemic has provided new and essential impetus for emotion recognition research. The numerous feelings and thoughts shared and posted on social networking sites throughout the COVID-19 outbreak mirrored the general publics mental health. To better comprehend the existing ecology of applied emotion recognition, this work presents an overview of different emotion acquisition tools that are readily available and provide high recognition accuracy. It also compares the most widely used emotion recognition datasets. Finally, it discusses various machine and deep learning classifiers that can be employed to acquire high level features for classification. Different data fusion methods are also explained in detail highlighting their benefits and limitations.
Keywords:  
Multimodal emotion recognition
Virtual reality
Deep learning
Machine learning
Data fusion methods
Fine grained emotions
Author(s) Name:  Naveed Ahmed, Zaher Al Aghbari, Shini Girija
Journal name:  Intelligent Systems with Applications
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Publisher name:  Elsevier
DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200171
Volume Information:  Volume: 17
Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667305322001089