24. An emotion recognition apparatus, comprising: a processor; a memory; and computer coded instructions embodied in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer coded instructions are configured to implement a method for emotion recognition, the method comprising: extracting one or more auditory attention features from an auditory spectrum for an input window of sound; generating one or more feature maps corresponding to the one or more auditory attention features; and extracting an auditory gist vector from each of the one or more feature maps; obtaining a cumulative gist vector through combination of each auditory gist vector extracted from the one or more feature maps; and determining one or more emotion classes corresponding to the input window of sound by mapping the cumulative gist vector to one or more emotion classes.
24. An emotion recognition apparatus, comprising: a processor; a memory; and computer coded instructions embodied in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer coded instructions are configured to implement a method for emotion recognition, the method comprising: extracting one or more auditory attention features from an auditory spectrum for an input window of sound; generating one or more feature maps corresponding to the one or more auditory attention features; and extracting an auditory gist vector from each of the one or more feature maps; obtaining a cumulative gist vector through combination of each auditory gist vector extracted from the one or more feature maps; and determining one or more emotion classes corresponding to the input window of sound by mapping the cumulative gist vector to one or more emotion classes. 25. The apparatus of claims 24 , wherein the one or more emotion classes are determined before performing speech recognition on the window of sound.