Constructing a Multimodal Music Teaching Model in College by Integrating Emotions

In this study, we enhanced the CaffeNet network for recognizing students’ facial expressions in a music classroom and extracted emotional features from their expressions. Additionally, students’ speech signals were processed through filters to identify emotional characteristics. Using the LRLR fusion strategy, these expression and speech-based emotional features were combined to derive multimodal fusion emotion results. Subsequently, a music teaching model incorporating this multimodal emotion recognition was developed. Our analysis indicates a mere 6.03% discrepancy between the model’s emotion recognition results and manual emotional assessments, underscoring its effectiveness. Implementation of this model in a music teaching context led to a noticeable increase in positive emotional responses—happy and surprised emotions peaked at 30.04% and 27.36%, respectively, during the fourth week. Furthermore, 70% of students displayed a positive learning status, demonstrating a significant boost in engagement and motivation for music learning. This approach markedly enhances student interest in learning and provides a solid basis for improving educational outcomes in music classes.