Abstract: This PhD dissertation was written by Iker Luengo under the advice of Dr. Eva Navas. It was successfully defended in the University of the Basque Country the 1st of June, 2010. The doctoral thesis committee was composed by Prof. José B. Mariño as president, Prof. Inmaculada Hernáez as secretary, Prof. Carmen García, Dr. Valentín Cardeñoso and Dr. Laura Docío.
Index Terms: emotion identification, parameterisation, feature selection.