Body posture dynamics have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their critical role in understanding the emotional states conveyed through human movements during social interactions. Emotions are typically expressed through facial expressions, voice, gait, posture, and overall body dynamics. Among these, body posture provides subtle yet essential cues about emotional states. However, predicting an individual's gait and posture dynamics poses challenges, given the complexity of human body movement, which involves numerous degrees of freedom compared to facial expressions. Moreover, unlike static facial expressions, body dynamics are inherently fluid and continuously evolving. This paper presents an effective method for recognizing 17 micro-emotions by analyzing kinematic features from the GEMEP dataset using video-based motion capture. We specifically focus on upper body posture dynamics (skeleton points and angle), capturing movement patterns and their dynamic range over time. Our approach addresses the complexity of recognizing emotions from posture and gait by focusing on key elements of kinematic gesture analysis. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model, achieving a high accuracy rate of 96.34% on the GEMEP dataset using a deep neural network (DNN). These findings highlight the potential for our model to advance posture-based emotion recognition, particularly in applications where human body dynamics are key indicators of emotional states.
Previous Article in event
Previous Article in session
Next Article in event
Next Article in session
Recognizing Human Emotions Through Body Posture Dynamics Using Deep Neural Networks
Published:
02 December 2024
by MDPI
in The 5th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences
session Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract:
Keywords: Gesture; GEMEP; emotions; matrix features
Comments on this paper