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Section 1. Recognizing Emotions -- 1. Emotional Modeling in an Interactive Robotic Head -- 2. Automatic Detection of Emotion in Music: Interaction with Emotionally Sensitive Machines -- 3. Facial Expression Analysis, Modeling and Synthesis: Overcoming the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence...

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