Emotion Recognition of Chinese Paintings at the Thirteenth National Exhibition of Fines Arts in China Based on Advanced Affective Computing

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 741665
• Main Authors: Li, Jing, Chen, Dongliang, Yu, Ning, Zhao, Ziping, Lv, Zhihan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 22.10.2021
• Subjects: advanced affective computing; Chinese paintings; deep learning; emotion recognition; Psychology; the Thirteenth National Exhibition of Fines Arts in China
• ISSN: 1664-1078; 1664-1078
• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.741665

Today, with the rapid development of economic level, people’s esthetic requirements are also rising, they have a deeper emotional understanding of art, and the voice of their traditional art and culture is becoming higher. The study expects to explore the performance of advanced affective computing in the recognition and analysis of emotional features of Chinese paintings at the 13th National Exhibition of Fines Arts. Aiming at the problem of “semantic gap” in the emotion recognition task of images such as traditional Chinese painting, the study selects the AlexNet algorithm based on convolutional neural network (CNN), and further improves the AlexNet algorithm. Meanwhile, the study adds chi square test to solve the problems of data redundancy and noise in various modes such as Chinese painting. Moreover, the study designs a multimodal emotion recognition model of Chinese painting based on improved AlexNet neural network and chi square test. Finally, the performance of the model is verified by simulation with Chinese painting in the 13th National Exhibition of Fines Arts as the data source. The proposed algorithm is compared with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), CNN, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), AlexNet, and Deep Neural Network (DNN) algorithms from the training set and test set, respectively, The emotion recognition accuracy of the proposed algorithm reaches 92.23 and 97.11% in the training set and test set, respectively, the training time is stable at about 54.97 s, and the test time is stable at about 23.74 s. In addition, the analysis of the acceleration efficiency of each algorithm shows that the improved AlexNet algorithm is suitable for processing a large amount of brain image data, and the acceleration ratio is also higher than other algorithms. And the efficiency in the test set scenario is slightly better than that in the training set scenario. On the premise of ensuring the error, the multimodal emotion recognition model of Chinese painting can achieve high accuracy and obvious acceleration effect. More importantly, the emotion recognition and analysis effect of traditional Chinese painting is the best, which can provide an experimental basis for the digital understanding and management of emotion of quintessence.