We introduce the problem of learning affective correspondence between audio (music) and visual data (images). For this task, a music clip and an image are considered similar (having true correspondence) if they have similar emotion content. In order to estimate this crossmodal, emotion-centric similarity, we propose a deep neural network architecture that learns to project the data from the two modalities to a common representation space, and performs a binary classification task of predicting the affective correspondence (true or false). To facilitate the current study, we construct a large scale database containing more than 3,500 music clips and 85,000 images with three emotion classes (positive, neutral, negative).
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019
Learning Affective Correspondence between Music and Image
Gaurav Verma, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Tanaya Guha
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