PetraMicanovic/meld-audio-temporal

Audio Emotion Recognition Model

An audio-based emotion recognition model trained on the MELD dataset.
It serves as a strong unimodal audio baseline and as the audio encoder in a multimodal emotion recognition system.

Model Summary

• Task: Speech Emotion Recognition
• Dataset: MELD
• Backbone: facebook/wav2vec2-base
• Pooling: Temporal pooling (mean + std over time)
• Classifier: MLP with class-weighted loss
• Classes: 7 emotion categories

Architecture

1. Wav2Vec 2.0 Encoder
   Extracts frame-level representations from raw audio.

2. Temporal Pooling
   Mean and standard deviation pooling over the time dimension to obtain a fixed-size utterance embedding.

3. MLP Classifier
   Fully connected layers with ReLU and dropout, followed by a softmax output layer.

Class Imbalance Handling

Class imbalance in MELD is addressed using class weights in the cross-entropy loss, improving macro-level performance on underrepresented emotions.

Training Details

• Sampling rate: 16 kHz
• Max utterance length: 6 seconds
• Optimizer: Adam
• Loss: CrossEntropyLoss (with class weights)
• Metrics: Accuracy, Macro F1, Weighted F1

Usage

• Standalone audio emotion classifier
• Audio branch for early and late fusion in multimodal emotion recognition