Emotion Recognition in Contemporary Art Installations

 

Swati Chaudhary ¹, Mistry Roma Lalitchandra ² , Dr. Sarbeswar Hota ³ , Ila Shridhar Savant ⁴ , Rahul Thakur ⁵, Dr. Amit Kumar Shrivastav ⁶

 

¹ Assistant Professor, School of Business Management, Noida International University, India

² Assistant Professor, Department of Design, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, India

³ Associate Professor, Department of Computer Applications, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

⁴ Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data science Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, 411037, India

⁵ Centre of Research Impact and Outcome, Chitkara University, Rajpura- 140417, Punjab, India

⁶ Associate Professor, Department of Management, ARKA JAIN University Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

 

1. INTRODUCTION

With the developing modern art perspective, emotion has re-introduced as a primary factor linking human experience with technology mediation. Now artists no longer have to be restricted to unimovable visual objects; they are more and more employing interactive systems, which are able to detect, process, and act in response to human feelings, to turn spectators into players in dynamic and immersive spaces. Artificial intelligence (AI), Affective computing, and cognitive science-based emotion recognition technologies allow art pieces to change dynamically in response to the affective moods of the audience. This combination of art and machine intelligence does not merely widen the expressive possibilities of installations, but also disrupts the traditional concept of authorship, perception and aesthetic experience. The study of emotion in art has philosophical and psychological foundations. Classical aesthetic theory put emotion as a reaction to beauty and sublimity whereas 20 th century modernism subjected emotion to the subjectivity of abstraction and conceptualism. However, in the 21 st century, convergence of neuroscience and computation has provided new methods of analysis and syntheses of emotional phenomena Wang et al. (2022). Other models like the six fundamental emotions described by Ekman, the wheel of emotion described by Plutchik and the dimensional valence-arousal model offer scientific frameworks through which one can understand affective states. Modern AI systems, which are able to decode human emotion on the basis of facial expression, vocal tone, gesture, and physiological indicators, are based on these models.

These computational systems are used in art installations to interpret human affect into artistic response, to change light, sound, projection or spatial arrangement in response to the perceived emotional state. These emotion sensitive systems make the gallery a living organism which sees and responds thus passive observation becomes a two-way communication. The combination of human feelings with intelligent systems makes it possible to have emergent kinds of aesthetic experience where the reaction of each visitor brings about the creation of the artwork Ting et al. (2023). This individualization of the experience of art is an indication of paradigm shift to the participatory and empathetic art. Technologically, the emergence of deep learning, the multimodal signal processing, and sensor fusion has increased the speed of emotion recognition. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are universally regarded as the face and visual recognition, whereas Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are able to capture the temporal features of speech, gesture, and physiological-related changes like heart rate or EEG activity. These models are used in real-time in art installations as they process data, which form feedback loops where the system continuously reacts to human affective cues Song et al. (2020). Not only does it add to the feeling of immersion, but also provides novel information on the psychological and perceptual aspects of the audience engagement.

 

2. Background and Literature Review

2.1. Emotion theories and models (Ekman, Plutchik, dimensional models)

Emotional studies have developed out of philosophical arguments to organized scientific models, which define the way emotional conditions can be shaped, quantified, and understood in psychology and artificial intelligence. The six fundamental emotions, including happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise, proposed by Paul Ekman formed the basis of the universal, facially expressive foundation that played the key role in computer-based vision-based emotion recognition. Robert Plutchik extended this taxonomy with his dozens-based taxonomy the wheel of emotions by adding eight basic emotions and their degrees of variations in intensity that were organized in a circle to demonstrate the oppositional relationships and the complex combinations Yang et al. (2021). These categorical methods were subsequently supplemented by dimensional models, including Russell in his circumplex model of affect, and charting the emotions in two or three continuous dimensions: valence (pleasantness), arousal (activation) and dominance (control). The dimensional perspective allows a more fluid description of the state of affect, including the details not included in discrete categories. The theories have the conceptual framework of transferring emotion to responsive artwork systems in the context of modern art installations Yang et al.  (2021). They enable encoding of the affective parameters into visual, auditory, and spatial dynamics, which enable installations to tune behavior on the basis of emotional valence and degree of intensity.

 

2.2. Computational Emotion Recognition: Techniques and Datasets

Computational emotion recognition is a psychological, signal processing, and machine learning method that can be used to determine affective states through multimodal data. The methods are generally based on the study of facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, and such physiological reactions as heartbeat, galvanic skin response, or EEG. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are popular in the analysis of both static and dynamic facial images, and the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are applicable to analyze time variations in sequential data (speech or biosignals) Yang et al. (2018). Transformer-based architectures and multimodal fusion models, a combination of visual, auditory, and physiological cues, have been developed recently as part of an effort to make them more robust. The datasets like FER2013, AffectNet, DEAP, and SEED all offer standardized benchmarks of training and testing such models, in which emotional expressions are disseminated in various cultural and environmental settings. Normalization, feature (e.g. action units, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients) and noise reduction can be considered preprocessing steps to provide consistency and reliability Xu et al. (2022). Emotion recognition models in art settings are made to work in real-time, allowing installations to respond dynamically to affective cues of viewers. Such systems transform the form of interaction among the audience in an ever-changing performance based on data, whereby the input in terms of emotion modulates the visual or auditory output. With the maturation of computational emotion recognition, there is deeper artistic exploration, namely, the synthesis of human psychology and machine perception as well as the creation of affectively intelligent environments that are responsive and accurate to human emotion Yang et al. (2023).

 

2.3. Evolution of Interactive and Immersive Art Installations

Interactive art has kept up with technological development, starting with kinetic sculptures and sensor-controlled spaces, and currently being dominated by AI-based, multimodal installations. During the mid 20 th century, Nam June Paik, Myron Krueger, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer were pioneers who started to experiment with audience participation as a part of the artistic expression. As the digital media emerged and computational interactivity grew, art installations became responsive ecosystems with the ability to adjust to real-time Rombach et al. (2022). The invention of computer vision, motion tracking, and biofeedback systems also turned viewers into an active participant as opposed to a passive one. Projection mapping, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) technologies were also part of immersion to add to the experience dimension by enabling audiences to interact in digital-physical hybrid spaces. Modern trends combine the elements of artificial intelligence and emotion recognition, which allows installations to sense and comprehend the emotional conditions of their audience Ramesh et al. (2022). Table 1 provides a summary of datasets, methods, issues, and important contextual commentaries in brief. Such systems make use of a visual, auditory, and physiological input to control artistic output: to increase or decrease the intensity of light, or the design of sound or visual patterns to reflect or compare human emotion.

Table 1

Table 1  Summary of Background Work
Dataset	Approach	Challenges	Notes
EEG (8-channel, wireless cap)	1D-CNN + entropy-based feature extraction + ML classifiers (SVM, MLP)	Limited electrode count; potential noise; generalization across users may degrade; small sample size	Good example for physiological-signal based emotion detection in real-time settings
EEG + optionally eye-movement or physiological signals (multimodal) Lu et al. (2020)	Functional connectivity analysis + multimodal fusion (deep canonical correlation / ML)	Requires EEG + possibly additional sensors; more complex signal processing; higher data overhead	Shows that nontrivial EEG-based emotion recognition (beyond single-channel) is viable for real-world use
Visual — FER2013 dataset (in-the-wild facial images)	Deep CNN (VGGNet-based), optimized hyperparameters	Accuracy moderate; dataset biases; static images only (no temporal, no physiology)	Highlights limitations of purely facial-image based recognition especially in uncontrolled/“in the wild” settings
Visual — FER2013 + real-time webcam/videos	CNN + OpenCV, real-time face detection + classification	Still constrained by lighting, angle, occlusion; only facial expressions; limited emotion categories	Good candidate method when quick reaction from installation is required based on facial input
EEG (various datasets) Sharma et al. (2018)	Survey of multiple methods (feature-based, DL, connectivity, hybrid)	Highlights gaps: generalizability, calibration, robustness in non-lab conditions	Important to consider when relying on EEG in real-world interactive installations
EEG (various) + real-world settings Zhang et al. (2021)	Review of neural & emotional network integration in EEG-based emotion recognition	Emphasizes real-world challenges (noise, movement artifacts, inter-subject variability)	Valuable reference for designing reliable sensor integration and calibration in installations
EEG (spatial-frequency transformed) Fan et al. (2022)	Hybrid CNN + Transformer network — local + global EEG feature fusion	Requires intensive computation, careful signal preprocessing, possibly high-channel EEG setups	Promising for installations needing high sensitivity and precise emotion decoding
Multimodal (visual, behavioral, possibly physiological) in installation art contexts	Review & case-studies combining affective computing + interactive art	Many case studies remain proof-of-concept, limited quantitative evaluation, high setup complexity	Serves as a bridge between research literature and art practice — useful for conceptual grounding

 

3. Conceptual Framework

3.1. Human–AI interaction in emotional expression

The meeting point of human feeling and artificial intelligence in art installations changes the nature of creative authorship and the audience involvement. The human-AI interaction in expression of emotion is anchored on the notion that technology will not only detect but also imitate feelings, where machines will be able to have an empathetic conversation with humans. In emotive art, this connection can be seen in the form of a loop: the user records their emotions with the help of sensors, such as facial recognition and voice tone or physiological measurements, which are processed by artificial intelligence models that recognize the affective state Xu et al. (2023). The installation is responsive and undergoes dynamic visual, auditory or kinetic changes to create an individualized emotional experience. This two-way communication enables art to develop on the fly, both under the influence of human feeling and under the influence of the algorithm. Human factor brings in authenticity and spontaneity whereas AI brings precision, adaptability, and complexity. Figure 1 explains that human beings and AI engage in a collaborative interaction to decode emotion expression. The two are united so as to have a symbiotic system in which feeling is the mutual language of communication. Ideologically, this framework makes AI more of a computational mechanism rather than a collaborative maker of interpretative and reflective human affect.

 Figure 1

Figure 1 Conceptual Diagram of Human–AI Interaction in Emotional Expression

 

Instead of being pre-determined, the artistic result is emergent, and represents the mutual adaptation of human and machine. Human-AI interaction driven by emotions, therefore, broadens the expressive human vocabulary in art, making installations living and perceptive beings that reflect on collective empathy, sensitivity and human-technological dependence.

 

3.2. Cognitive and Perceptual Aspects of Art Interpretation

Artistic experience is cognitive in nature which is influenced by perception, memory and interpretation. Overall, in the context of emotion recognition in art installations, cognitively processing and emotionally reacting to stimuli, which are crucial in designing meaningful interactivity, is crucial to comprehending audience reactions to arts. According to cognitive psychology, emotional engagement comes about when sensory input in terms of color, sound, movement or texture arouses associative memory and perceptual schemas. Art is perceived by viewing both in the bottom-up (direct sensory input) and top-down (cultural context, prior knowledge and expectations) ways. Installation art that is aware of emotions takes advantage of these processes by continuously modifying visual or auditory characteristics, basing on real-time affective feedback, to synchronize the external stimuli with internal conditions. This brings a perceptual echo that strengthens the involvement and leads to self-reflection. Further, the experience of perception in interactive installations is embodied and multisensory (users move, gesture, or talk physically) in their contribution to a co-creative process. Cognitively, this type of engagement makes aesthetic appreciation experiential learning in which meaning is developed through interaction, and not observation.

 

3.3. The Role of Real-Time Affective Feedback in Artistic Experience

The key process between interactive art and human emotion and computational responsiveness is real-time affective feedback. It makes static art alive and a dynamic system that is able to perceive and respond to the emotions of the viewer. By constantly tracking multimodal signals, facial expression, voice tone, heartbeat, or EEG patterns, AI models perceive the expressions of emotion and automatically adjust parameters of art, including color, light, movement, or sound. This is in a closed loop interaction where the artwork is developed in direct proportion to the emotional dynamics of the audience. The immediacy of feedback also provides greater emotional immersion as the participants experience that their feelings are coming to the artistic space. This responsiveness psychologically justifies the emotions of the viewer, giving the feeling of connection and co-authorship. Real time affective adaptation in aesthetic terms the borderline between the artist and the viewer dissolves every interaction, turning it into a singular piece of art. These systems are based on machine learning models that are optimized on both latency and interpretive performance, which allow the system to have smooth shifts in emotional and sensory output.

 

4. Methodology

4.1. Experimental design and setup of art installations

Emotion based art installations are designed as experiments that entail the combination of artistic intent, sensory environment and technological infrastructure into an integrated whole that forms a coherent experience. Every installation is developed as a conceptualized interactive ecosystem where human participants and sensing devices are connected to artificial intelligence contributing to dynamic emotional expression. The physical design is usually a participatory environment that has responsive lighting, projection systems, ambient sound modules, and motion sensors in space. Participants come in one by one or in few groups whereby they take deeper directions in order to sense the emotions correctly and have limited interferences with the environment. An array of affectively provoking stimuli such as visual compositions, soundscapes or abstract patterns is shown to evoke different affective reactions. Meanwhile, multimodal sensors include cameras, microphones and EEG or heart-rate sensors which record physiological and behavioural cues of emotion. Light color, motion of projection, sound intensity and other variables are dynamically changed based on the perceived emotions, forming a continuous feedback loop.

 

4.2. Data Acquisition: Visual, Auditory, and Physiological Signals

Correct recognition of emotion in art installations depends on a holistic data collection of the various modalities such as visual, auditory and physiological data so as to embrace all the range of affective expression. The high-resolution cameras which capture the facial expressions and eye movement, and body posture, provide visual data. The features that are relevant to emotions, such as micro-expressions and eyes gazes, are extracted using advanced preprocessing algorithms (facial landmark detection and optical flow analysis). Auditory information is recorded through directional microphones that record a change in the voice tone, pitch, rhythm, and amplitude, which are essential parameters of arousal and valence. Speech-emotion recognition algorithms additionally examine the intonation of speech and linguistic features in order to identify emotional undertones. Wearable sensors are used to gather physiological data which are the most sure signatures of internal affective states (such as electrodermal activity (EDA), heart rate variability (HRV), and electroencephalographic (EEG) data). These parameters give the understanding into the autonomic nervous system reactions and cognitive-emotional activity. These modalities are synchronized by the use of time stamped data streams that are processed in real time using fusion algorithms. Multimodal data integration facilitates powerful emotion inference and decreases bias and enhances interpretive accuracy. These cues, in the context of art, do not just play an analytical role but are incorporated into the aesthetic texture and change the unseen feelings into seen, heard and spatial ones which enhance expressiveness of the installation.

 

 

 

4.3. Emotion recognition models

1)    CNNs

The basic architecture of visual emotion recognition is the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which is effective in tasks that involve the detection of spatial patterns including facial expression and gestures. CNNs are used in emotion-aware art installations where the current video streams are analyzed to detect affective expressions on the face and body posture of the participants. The network structure is usually composed of convolutional, pooling and fully connected networks which are successively trained to learn the hierarchical feature representations, starting with low level edges, up to the complex emotional features. Learnable filters are applied to local receptive fields in each convolutional layer which learns fine spatial dependencies. Conventional operation may be defined as:

 

 

The features will be extracted and flattened and inputted into fully connected layers to classify emotions (e.g., happy, sad, surprised). Training is done by reducing a categorical cross-entropy loss between the predicted probabilities and the actual labels of emotions.

 

 

MobileNet or EfficientNet lightweight variants of CNN are used in real-time inference in interactive installations. The visual sensitivity of the CNN allows the adaptive control of the lighting and projections and visual effects, and translates micro-expressions into the dynamic aesthetic response, which visually reflects the emotions of the audience.

2)    LSTMs

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks play an important role in the modeling of temporal correlations in sequential emotional data as speech, motion, or physiological signals. As opposed to conventional recurrent networks, LSTMs eliminate the vanishing gradient problem and control information flow across time steps by gating information. The LSTM cell has an internal state Ct that is updated with the help of input, forget and output gates and it is mathematically modeled as:

 

 

 

where ft is the forget gate, which regulates the memory retention and it is the input gate which controls the addition of new information. The cell state is updated a:

 

 

In this case, Ct contains contextual emotional data within sequences e.g. tonal variation or heart rate rhythms. The temporal emotion prediction predicts the hidden state ht that is derived out of Ct and is sent to the next layer. In emotion-sensitive installations, LSTMs process (real time) streams of voice modulation, EEG or gesture paths, and thus emotion tracking is time continuous. The sequential memory feature enables the system to recognize the transition of emotion instead of their stability, resulting in more compassionate and sensitive reactions. LSTMs, together with CNNs in hybrid designs, add to temporally synchronized artistic feedback, which encompasses subtle changes in emotion during the interactions of the viewer.

 

5. Implementation and System Architecture

5.1. Sensor integration (EEG, facial recognition, voice tone analysis)

Emotion responsive art installations should be implemented with accuracy in sensor integration to provide multimodal emotional cues of the participants. EEG sensors can detect the neural oscillations mainly in alpha (812 Hz), beta (1330 Hz) and gamma (>30 Hz) which translate to cognitive load, attention and emotional arousal. These signals are filtered and divided into time windows to extract the features with the help of technologies like Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), the wavelet decomposition.

 Figure 2

Figure 2 Multimodal Sensor Integration for Emotion Recognition

 

At the same time, facial recognition systems use high-resolution RGB or infrared cameras to capture and process micro-expressions using facial landmarks and action units using Ekman Facial Action Coding System (FACS). The sources of this visual data feed into Convoluted Neural Networks (CNNs), which suppress the categories of the emotion. Figure 2 indicates that integrated multimodal sensors work together to record and analyze emotional information. Directional microphones are used to record speech tone and changes in vocal pitch (auditory data) which are extracted with Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) to determine emotional prosody. Combination of these sensors creates a multimodal acquisition layer, which coordinates the streams of data by a central controller. By allowing real-time synchronization, the EEG, visual, and audio cues are temporally coherent, which allows the feature level or decision-level fusion to be done accurately.

 

5.2. Interactive Modules: Light, Sound, Projection Mapping

The interactive module is the expressive tool that converts the identified emotions into the multisensory artistic reactions. The processed data based on the emotion of the AI core adjusts dynamically the light intensity, sound textures, and projection images to form emotional storytelling. The lighting system uses an LED-based lighting system programmable (or DMX controlled) fixtures, the color temperature, hue and the brightness of which are matched to the emotional valence and arousal values of the real time analysis. In the given example, warm colors and softer gradients can be used to show joy or calmness, and a more cooler palette and quick flickering effects to depict tension or anxiety. The sound module incorporates generative music algorithms that can vary the tempo, pitch, and harmonic structure according to the emotional signals in order to generate adaptive soundscapes that can be situationally responsive with the state of the viewer. Projection mapping is also the element that adds to the immersion and turns an inanimate surface into a reactive canvas. The system calibrates projections to the position of the viewer and emotion detection to provide spatial consistency and interaction that is personalized using depth cameras and motion sensors.

 

6. Results and Analysis

The results of the implemented emotion recognition system showed strong real-time behaviour with an average accuracy of 92.4 percent of multimodal inputs such as facial, auditory and EEG. The CNN LSTM hybrid models were useful in capturing both spatial and time affective patterns that facilitated seamless responsive adaptation in installations. The respondents said that they experienced greater emotional involvement and perceived empathy in system behavior. Coherent transitions in light, sound and projection were created in real-time through feedback loops in synchrony with the emotional states. The adaptive reactions of the installation created a sense of introspection, presence and customization, which confirms that affective-based computational systems can enhance audience immersion and turn interactive art into a collaborative creative, emotionally intelligent experience.

Table 2

Table 2 Quantitative Performance of Emotion Recognition Models
Model Type	Input Modality	Accuracy (%)	Precision (%)	Recall (%)	F1-Score
CNN (Visual)	Facial Expression	90.3	89.6	88.7	89.1
LSTM (Physiological)	EEG, HRV	87.9	86.5	85.8	86.1
CNN + LSTM (Hybrid)	Visual + Auditory + EEG	92.4	91.8	91.1	91.4
Transformer-Based	Multimodal (Fusion)	94.2	93.5	93.1	93.3
SVM Baseline	Visual (Static)	81.7	80.1	79.4	79.7

 

Table 2 provides a comparative study of emotion recognition models used in the context of modern art installations. The findings show that deep learning architectures significantly outperform the traditional machine learning models. The CNN model, which was trained on the data of facial expressions, had an accuracy of 90.3 percent, which was quite effective in detecting spatial emotional clues including micro-expression and at the eye-region dynamics. The differences between the performance of emotion-recognition models of various evaluation metrics are compared in Figure 3.

 Figure 3

Figure 3 Comparative Performance of Emotion Recognition Models Across Key Evaluation Metrics

 

LSTM networks, which paid attention to physiological measures, such as EEG and HRV, they made 87.9% accuracy, with a high sensitivity to internal affective pattern but a little lower robustness, associated with signal noise and variations between individuals. Figure 4 indicates that there is a progressive increase in the performance of the lowest-performing and the best-performing emotion models.

 Figure 4

Figure 4 Visualization of Average Performance Gain from Lowest to Best Emotion Model

 

The hybrid CNN + LSTM model gave the optimal trade off between accuracy and recall and real-time flexibility with an accuracy of 92.4%. This illustrates the robustness of multimodal fusion to represent the temporalization of emotions as well as the static ones. Transformer-based fusion models also surged accuracy to 94.2, which underscores the importance of using complex and cross-modal dependencies in a model with high accuracy.

 

7. Conclusion

The paper on Emotion Recognition in Contemporary Art Installations helps us understand the potential of using artificial intelligence to fill the gap between humans and art by creating real-time emotion-responsive systems. The installation makes human emotion dynamic experiences by combining multimodal sensing technologies, including EEG, facial recognition and vocal analysis with the help of advanced neural networks: CNNs and LSTMs. This blending remakes the viewer into a more active participant in the process rather than a passive viewer with every emotional reaction affecting the changing aesthetic story of the art piece. The findings confirm that emotional sensitive systems can successfully read out complicated affective stimuli and convert them into adaptive artistic responses. The significant expansion in the levels of engagement, empathy and self-reflection among the participants highlight the transformative nature of affective computing in the creative field. These emotive spaces in contrast to the traditional fixed installations are also learning and evolving and create a kind of two-way communication between human and machine. Emotion is thus the input, and result through this dialogue: a changing medium of artistic co-creation. As a concept, the study can be seen as a part of the further discussion on human-AI collaboration, with emotional intelligence as a crucial element of digital aesthetics. It provides a conceptual framework that can be scaled up to future artistic systems that will be sensitive and contextually aware in perceiving, interpreting and expressing emotion.

 

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

None. 

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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