Abstract
Pain-related emotions are a major barrier to effective self rehabilitation in chronic pain. Automated coaching systems capable of detecting these emotions are a potential solution. This paper lays the foundation for the development of such systems by making three contributions. First, through literature reviews, an overview of how pain is expressed in chronic pain and the motivation for detecting it in physical rehabilitation is provided. Second, a fully labelled multimodal dataset (named ‘EmoPain’) containing high resolution multiple-view face videos, head mounted and room audio signals, full body 3D motion capture and electromyographic signals from back muscles is supplied. Natural unconstrained pain related facial expressions and body movement behaviours were elicited from people with chronic pain carrying out physical exercises. Both instructed and non-instructed exercises were considered to reflect traditional scenarios of physiotherapist directed therapy and home-based self-directed therapy. Two sets of labels were assigned: level of pain from facial expressions annotated by eight raters and the occurrence of six pain-related body behaviours segmented by four experts. Third, through exploratory experiments grounded in the data, the factors and challenges in the automated recognition of such expressions and behaviour are described, the paper concludes by discussing potential avenues in the context of these findings also highlighting differences for the two exercise scenarios addressed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 435-451 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 30 Jul 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Chronic low back pain
- emotion
- pain behaviour
- body movement
- facial expression
- surface electromyography
- motion capture
- automatic emotion recognition
- multimodal database
Profiles
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Min Hane Aung
- School of Computing Sciences - Associate Professor in Computing Sciences
- Norwich Epidemiology Centre - Member
- Colour and Imaging Lab - Member
- Health Technologies - Group Lead
- Smart Emerging Technologies - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research