EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Special Issue on
Emotion and Mental State Recognition from Speech
Call for Papers
As research in speech processing has matured, attention
has shifted from linguistic-related applications such as
speech recognition towards paralinguistic speech processing
problems, in particular the recognition of speaker identity,
language, emotion, gender, and age. Determination of emo-
tion or mental state is a particularly challenging problem,
in view of the significant variability in its expression posed
by linguistic, contextual, and speaker-specific characteristics
within speech.
Some of the key research problems addressed to date inc-
lude isolating emotion-specific information in the speech
signal, extracting suitable features, forming reduced-dime-
nsion feature sets, developing machine learning methods
applicable to the task, reducing feature variability due to
speaker and linguistic content, comparing and evaluating
diverse methods, robustness, and constructing suitable
databases. Automatic detection of other types of mental state,
which share some characteristics with emotion, are also now
being explored, for example, depression, cognitive load, and
“cognitive epistemic” states such as interest or skepticism.
Topics of interest in this special issue include, but are not
limited to:
• Signal processing methods for acoustic feature extrac-
tion in emotion recognition
• Robustness issues in emotion classification, including
speaker and speaker group normalization and reduc-
tion of mismatch due to coding, noise, channel, and
transmission effects
• Applications of prosodic and temporal feature model-
ing in emotion recognition
• Novel pattern recognition techniques for emotion
recognition
• Automatic detection of depression or psychiatric dis-
orders from speech
• Methods for measuring stress, emotion-related indica-
tors, or cognitive load from speech
• Studies relating speech production or perception to
emotion and mental state recognition
• Recognition of nonprototypical spontaneous and nat-
uralistic emotion in speech
• New methods for multimodal emotion recognition,
where nonverbal speech content has a central role
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
http://www.hindawi.com
• Emotional speech synthesis research with clear impli-
cations for emotion recognition
• Emerging research topics in recognition of emotion
and mental state from speech
• Novel emotion recognition systems and applications
• Applications of emotion modeling to other related
areas, for example, emotion tolerant automatic speech
recognition and recognition of nonlinguistic vocaliza-
tions
Before submission authors should carefully read over the
journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www
.hindawi.com/journals/asp/guidelines.html. Prospective au-
thors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking Sys-
tem at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following
timetable:
Manuscript Due August 1, 2010
First Round of Reviews November 1, 2010
Publication Date February 1, 2011
Lead Guest Editor
Julien Epps, The University of New South Wales, Australia;
National ICT Australia, Australia; j.epps@unsw.edu.au
Guest Editors
Roddy Cowie, Queen’s University Belfast, UK;
r.cowie@qub.ac.uk
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California,
USA; shri@sipi.usc.edu
Björn Schuller, Technische Universitaet Muenchen,
Germany; schuller@tum.de
Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;
jhtao@nlpr.ia.ac.cn