Purpose: The current study aims to investigate the effect of orofacial motions for automatic attitude recognition Method: To achieve this goal, the movements of lips and jaw during the expressions of six common attitudes from 33 native Mandarin Chinese speakers were collected using ElectroMegnatic Articulography. The random forest classifications were then conducted for attitude recognition based on orofacial data. Results: the average rate of attitude recognition was 63.45%, and the identification accuracy was above 60% for almost every attitude. Besides, for the further classifications separately conducting on each pair of attitudes, the opposing attitudes within each attitude pair were all reasonably recognized (i.e., above 65%). Conclusion: The use of orofacial expressions in attitude expression could be valuable features for the technology of automatic attitude recognition.
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