Abstract:

A model for music affective computing based on Hevner affective ring—a famous psychology model for emotion representation was proposed. A 8-dimensional vector of linguistic labels is used to represent the emotion embodied in underlying music. And a new method is introduced to measure the emotion similarity between any two pieces of music. And then, the emotional space based on a set of basic linguistic labels is established via an experiment. Considering the requirements of emotional music retrieval and multi-expert decision, a linguistic information fusion method for music emotions based was presented on the arithmetic and logic operations on the emotional space, and the examples show that our model agrees with psychological pattern of the music recognition well and truly.

Key words: emotion cognition, Hevner affective ring, music affective vector, linguistic information fusion