Group Synchrony for Emotion Recognition using Physiological Signals

During group interactions, we react and modulate our emotions and behaviour to the group through phenomena including emotion contagion and physiological synchrony. This paper introduces a new interpersonal Weighted Group Synchrony approach based on Electrodermal Activity (EDA) and Heart-Rate Variability (HRV). Two datasets (AMIGOS and K-EmoCon) are explored, covering different group sizes (4 vs. dyad) and group-based activities (video-watching vs conversation). Experimental results show that group information improves arousal and valence classification, across all datasets, except for K-EmoCon on valence. The proposed method surpasses previous work results for K-EmoCon on arousal, and provides a new baseline on AMIGOS for long-videos. See more.
