Giuseppe Boccignone¹, Donatello Conte², Vittorio Cuculo¹, Raffaella Lanzarotti¹
¹ PHuSe Lab - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano
² Université de Tours - Tours, France

Paper Boccignone, G., Conte, D., Cuculo, V. and Lanzarotti, R. (2017) AMHUSE: A Multimodal dataset for HUmour SEnsing. In Proceedings of 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. (ICMI'17), ACM

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3136755.3136806

Description

DANTE (Dimensional ANnotation Tool for Emotions) is a project developed by the PHuSe Lab from Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in collaboration with Département Informatique de Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université François Rabelais de Tours, France. The tool is part of a multimodal dataset acquired with the aim to study emotional response in presence of amusement stimulus.

Demo

For a test demo, go to the following link:

http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/DANTE/index.php?id=3497&vid=30_3.mp4&type=arousal

Requirements

The annotation tool is a web-based software, and for this reason it simply requires a LAMP/MAMP/WAMP software bundle, depending on the operating system. In other terms, it requires: Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PHP.

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/PHuSeLab/DANTE.git

2. Copy or move the DANTE folder to the Apache www folder.
3. Import the annotationdb.sql file into an existing MySQL instance.
   This is step is needed to create the DANTE database and tables.

mysql -u <username> -p < annotationdb.sql

5. Edit the file config.php according to the environment. (For more details, see section configuration).
6. Open the browser to the page http://localhost/login.php or wherever you installed DANTE.
7. Login with default credentials admin:admin.
8. Follow the configuration instructions and change the default password!

Configuration

The configuration file contained in config.php is very simple and permits to configure some basics parameters, such as:

• db_host hostname of the MySQL database (default: localhost).
• db_name database name to use, where the annotationdb.sql file is imported (default: annotationdb).
• db_user MySQL database username.
• db_pass MySQL database password.
• anno_rate annotation recording frequency. DANTE will record a value every 1/anno_rate seconds (default: '25').
• save_mode DANTE is able to save the annotations to the database db or to a text file file (default: 'db'). Before using file mode check permission of the annotation folder.

Reference

If you use this code or data, please cite the paper:

@inproceedings{cuculo2019openfacs,
    author="Cuculo, Vittorio and D'Amelio, Alessandro",
    editor="Zhao, Yao and Barnes, Nick and Chen, Baoquan and Westermann, R{\"u}diger and Kong, Xiangwei and Lin, Chunyu",
    title="OpenFACS: An Open Source FACS-Based 3D Face Animation System",
    booktitle="Image and Graphics",
    year="2019",
    publisher="Springer International Publishing",
    address="Cham",
    pages="232--242",
}