TY  - CONF
T1  - Automatic cry detection in early childhood education settings
T2  - 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2008. ICDL 2008
Y1  - 2008
A1  - Ruvolo, P.
A1  - Movellan, J.
KW  - Acoustic noise
KW  - auditory moods
KW  - automatic cry detection
KW  - behavioural sciences computing
KW  - Deafness
KW  - early childhood education settings
KW  - education
KW  - Educational robots
KW  - Emotion recognition
KW  - human coders
KW  - Humans
KW  - learning (artificial intelligence)
KW  - Machine Learning
KW  - Mood
KW  - preschool classrooms
KW  - Prototypes
KW  - Robustness
KW  - Working environment noise
AB  - <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0470588);">We present results on applying a novel machine learning approach for learning auditory moods in natural environments [1] to the problem of detecting crying episodes in preschool classrooms. The resulting system achieved levels of performance approaching that of human coders and also significantly outperformed previous approaches to this problem [2].</span></p>
JF  - 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2008. ICDL 2008
PB  - IEEE
CY  - Monterey, CA
SN  - 978-1-4244-2661-4
ER  -