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Applying classical machine-learning methods to sensor time series is more lightweight but may struggle to reach high accuracy, especially when the temporal structure is not explicitly modelled. This paper introduces three subinterval voting-based ensemble models designed for user-specific emotion classification from multimodal time-series data acquired by smartwatch inertial sensors and heart-rate measurements. Each model partitions a time window into subwindows and performs window-level voting, thereby exploiting the temporal consistency of emotional responses while remaining compatible with standard classifiers such as logistic regression and Random Forests (with or without hyperparameter tuning). The models are evaluated on a public smartwatch emotion benchmark dataset under both binary (happy vs. sad) and three-class (happy, sad, neutral) settings. The relative accuracy improvement over the corresponding baseline reported in prior work ranges from 4.68% to 26.05%, with a mean gain of 12.34%. For the three-class tasks, improvements range from 11.17% to 37.10%, with a mean gain of 21.63%. Within the evaluated experimental setting, these results show that the proposed subinterval ensembles consistently enhance performance while remaining model-agnostic and compatible with standard user-specific classification pipelines in sensor-based emotion recognition.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computers15040256","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,20]],"date-time":"2026-04-20T09:37:42Z","timestamp":1776677862000},"page":"256","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Novel Ensemble Models for Enhanced Accuracy in Time Series Classification: Application to Multimodal Emotion Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Mohamed Hanafy","family":"Abdel-Kader Mahmoud","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Information Technology Institute (ITI), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Giza 12563, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1289-0501","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sherine Nagy","family":"Saleh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria 21937, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8024-3795","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amin","family":"Shoukry","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21544, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yousry","family":"Elgamal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria 21937, Egypt"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"209","DOI":"10.1080\/02699930802204677","article-title":"Measures of emotion: A review","volume":"23","author":"Mauss","year":"2009","journal-title":"Cogn. 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