Towards Predicting Expressed Emotion in Music from Pairwise Comparisons, 2012

Authors: Jens Madsen, Bjørn Sand Jensen, Jan Larsen, Jens Brehm Nielsen
Keywords: expressed emotion, pairwise comparison, Gaussian process, Generalized Linear models
Type: Conference paper [With referee]
Conference: 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) Illusions
Year 2012 Month July

Keywords: expressed emotion, pairwise comparison, Gaussian process, Generalized Linear models

Abstract We introduce five different regression models for the modeling of expressed motion in music using data obtained in a two alternative forced choice listening experiment. The predictive performance of the proposed models is compared using learning curves, showing that all models converge to produce a similar classification error. The predictive ranking of the models is compared using Kendall’s tau rank correlation coefficient and shows a difference despite similar classification error. The variation in predictions across subjects and the difference in ranking is investigated visually in the AV space and quantified using Kendall’s tau.

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