BACKGROUND It is well established that there is anxiety-related variation between observers in the very earliest, pre-attentive stage of visual processing of images such as emotionally expressive faces, often leading to enhanced attention to threat in a variety of disorders and traits. Whether there is also variation in early-stage affective (i.e. valenced) responses resulting from such images,...

The goal of the present study is to explore the application of deep convolutional network features to emotion recognition. Results indicate that they perform similarly to recently published models at a best recognition rate of 94.4%, and do so with a single still image rather than a video stream. An implementation of an affective feedback game is also described, where a classifier using these f...

In natural vision both stimulus features and cognitive/affective factors influence an observer's attention. However, the relationship between stimulus-driven ("bottom-up") and cognitive/affective ("top-down") factors remains controversial: Can affective salience counteract strong visual stimulus signals and shift attention allocation irrespective of bottom-up features? Is there any difference b...

THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, AND ACCULTURATION/ENCULTURATION TO BMI AND PERCEPTIONS OF BODY IMAGE AMONG COLLEGE-AGED AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of SES and acculturation/enculturation to body image perceptions and overweight (i.e. BMI) among African American college women. A secondary purpose was to examine which factors predicte...

We introduce an affective image recoloring method for changing the overall mood in the image in a numerically measurable way. Given a semantically segmented source image and a target emotion, our system finds reference image segments from the collection of images that have been tagged via crowdsourcing with numerically measured emotion labels. We then recolorize the source segments using colors...

Affective classification and retrieval of multimedia such as audio, image, and video have become emerging research areas in recent years. The previous research focused on designing features and developing feature extraction methods. Generally, a multimedia content can be represented with different feature representations (i.e., views). However, the most suitable feature representation related t...