Concordance-Optimal Continuous Music Emotion Estimation: Variance Decomposition, Dual-Branch Temporal Fusion, and Conformal Prediction Intervals

Mohammad Faraz Akhtar, Aditya Parashar, Ayush Jain +3

Continuous music emotion recognition (MER) estimates how Arousal and Valence evolve within a song, yet the field's standard metric, pooled frame-level correlation, is dominated by…