A pilot study on affective classification of facial images for emerging news topics

Zhang, Ligang, , , & (2014) A pilot study on affective classification of facial images for emerging news topics. In Loui, A & Pereira, F (Eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States of America, pp. 1-6.

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The proliferation of news reports published in online websites and news information sharing among social media users necessitates effective techniques for analysing the image, text and video data related to news topics. This paper presents the first study to classify affective facial images on emerging news topics. The proposed system dynamically monitors and selects the current hot (of great interest) news topics with strong affective interestingness using textual keywords in news articles and social media discussions. Images from the selected hot topics are extracted and classified into three categorized emotions, positive, neutral and negative, based on facial expressions of subjects in the images. Performance evaluations on two facial image datasets collected from real-world resources demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed system in affective classification of facial images in news reports. Facial expression shows high consistency with the affective textual content in news reports for positive emotion, while only low correlation has been observed for neutral and negative. The system can be directly used for applications, such as assisting editors in choosing photos with a proper affective semantic for a certain topic during news report preparation.

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ID Code: 74150
Item Type: Chapter in Book, Report or Conference volume (Conference contribution)
ORCID iD:
Tjondronegoro, Dianorcid.org/0000-0001-7446-2839
Chandran, Vinodorcid.org/0000-0003-3185-0852
Measurements or Duration: 6 pages
Event Title: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
Event Dates: 2014-09-22 - 2014-09-24
Event Location: Indonesia
Keywords: Affective classification, facial expression recognition, facial images, news, sentiment analysis
DOI: 10.1109/MMSP.2014.6958799
ISBN: 978-1-4799-5896-2
Pure ID: 32642051
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Science & Engineering Faculty
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Deposited On: 17 Oct 2014 07:45
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