An Intelligent Music Player Based on Emotion Recognition

This paper proposes an intelligent agent that sorts a music collection based on the emotions conveyed by each song and then suggests an appropriate playlist to the user based on his/her current mood. The user's local music collection is initially clustered based on the emotion the song conveys, i.e. the mood of the song. This is calculated taking into consideration the lyrics of the song, as well as the melody. Every time the user wishes to generate a mood-based playlist, the user takes a picture of themselves at that instant. This image is subjected to facial detection and emotion recognition techniques, recognizing the emotion of the user. The music that best matches this emotion is then recommended to the user as a playlist.