arXiv (Cornell University)
Layer-Adapted Implicit Distribution Alignment Networks for Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition
October 2023 • Yan Zhao, Yuan Zong, Jincen Wang, Hailun Lian, Cheng Lu, Li Zhao, Wenming Zheng
In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised domain adaptation (DA) method called layer-adapted implicit distribution alignment networks (LIDAN) to address the challenge of cross-corpus speech emotion recognition (SER). LIDAN extends our previous ICASSP work, deep implicit distribution alignment networks (DIDAN), whose key contribution lies in the introduction of a novel regularization term called implicit distribution alignment (IDA). This term allows DIDAN trained on source (training) speech samples to remain ap…