Paralinguistic analysis is increasingly turning into a mainstream topic in speech and
language processing. This article aims to provide a broad overview of the constantly …

The paper presents a novel automatic speaker age and gender identification approach
which combines seven different methods at both acoustic and prosodic levels to improve the …

Supervised learning algorithms are effective in most application domains, however they
have limitations. A single learning model may miss out on some local regions of the feature …

The study at hand aims at the development of a multimodal, ensemble-based system for
emotion recognition. Special attention is given to a problem often neglected: missing data in …

Biometrics is the technique of automatically recognizing individuals based on their biological
or behavioral characteristics. Various biometric traits have been introduced and widely …

We report on the curation of several publicly available datasets for age and gender
prediction. Furthermore, we present experiments to predict age and gender with models …

An automatic gender detection may be useful in some cases of a mobile healthcare system.
For example, there are some pathologies, such as vocal fold cyst, which mainly occur in …

Face detection is a computer technology that determines the location and size of the human
face in an arbitrary digital image employed for authentication. Face recognition technology …

This chapter describes the development of a multimodal, ensemble‐based system for
emotion recognition covering the major steps in processing: emotion modeling, data …

In this paper, a new approach to classify the two types of gender, male and female, is
proposed and implemented. The research is based on the idea that male and female can be …