Multi-modal Emotion Recognition – More "cognitive" Machines

Based on several results related to studies on emotions, we suggest that the process of emotionrecognition is assisted by some internal structure of the cognitive images of emotions, which are at different levels of knowledge representation. We concede that the main proposed in psychology models are in correspondence with these levels and in this sense complementary. We summarize the state-of-the-art of machine emotion recognition with regards of the used psychological models of emotions. In order to discover amelioration sources of multimodal machine emotion recognition, we propose a scheme of the cognitive process, based on gradual levels of representation. The proposed scheme shows several "strategic" differences with the architectures used in machine emotion recognition. We discuss the questions related to recognition, assisted by two levels of representation that we called "perceptual" and "conceptual". ACM Classification