Overview of artificial emotion in music

Due to the essential features of music emotion, affective computing research in the field of music can accomplish much. And it is becoming a hot issue in the field of artificial intelligence and multimedia. This paper analyses the forms and contents of affective computing research, and focus on the content of the three specific researches: computer music emotion recognition, emotional semantic-driven music retrieval, emotional music synthesis technology. Finally, this paper concludes the possible future research directions.