22-10-2014, 02:19 PM
Abstracts: The Emotion Based Music Player - Expression Discerner is a software application designed for the purpose of enhancing the user’s experience of listening to music. It aims to provide a hands-free music playing environment by employing intelligent systems that and comprehend facial expressions. The Emotion Based Music Player - Expression Discerner is a single tier software application comprising of two basic functionalities: the emotion recognition and music playing functions. Open CV, an open source, image processing library in C language is used with a Visual Studio front for developing the emotion recognition module. The music player is implemented using .NET framework on Visual Studio front. The Emotion Based Music Player - Expression Discerner will be designed to capture the face of user via a camera and study the expression on the face. The result of the facial expression analysis yields an emotion based on which a suitable music track will be played. The Emotion Based Music Player - Expression Discerner seeks to employ intelligent systems in entertainment software applications to improve user experience. The objective of this paper is to elucidate the working and implementation of the Emotion Based Music Player - Expression Discerner system.