Simon Kipyatich Kiptoo

Work place: Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, Department of Computing, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Nairobi, Kenya

E-mail: Simon.kiptoo@students.jkuat.ac.ke

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Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Simon Kipyatich Kiptoo: the Corresponding Author is a student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, pursuing a Masters’ of Science degree in Computer Systems. with interest in Artificial Intelligence and computer systems.

Author Articles
Determining Emotion Intensities from Audio Data Using Ensemble Models: A Late Fusion Approach

By Simon Kipyatich Kiptoo Kennedy Ogada Tobias Mwalili

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2025.06.04, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2025

This paper presents an ensemble model in the determination of manifestation of emotion intensities from audio-dataset. An emotion denotes the mental state of the human mind or/and thought processes that represents a recognizable pattern of an entity like emotion arousal having a good similarity with its manifestation of vocal, facial or/and bodily signals. In this paper, we propose a stacking, late fusion approach where the best experimental outcome from two base models build from Random Forests and Extreme Gradient Boost are combined using simple majority voting. RAVDESS audio datasets, a public gender balanced dataset built by Ryerson University of Canada for the purpose of emotion study was used. 80% of the dataset was used for training while 20% was used for testing. Two features, MFCC and Chroma were introduced to the base models in a series of experimental setups and the outcome evaluated using confusion matrix, precision, recall and F1-Score. It was then compared to two state-of-the-art works done on KBES and RAVDESS datasets. This approach yielded an overall classification accuracy of 93%. 

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