Automatic non-verbal communication skills analysis: A quantitative evaluation

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The oral communication competence is deﬁned on the top of the most relevant skills for one’s professional and personal life. Because of the importance of communication in our activities of daily living, it is crucial to study methods to evaluate and provide the necessary feedback that can be used in order to improve these communication capabilities and, therefore, learn how to express ourselves better. In this work, we propose a system capable of evaluating quantitatively the quality of oral presentations in an automatic fashion. The system is based on a multi-modal RGB, depth, and audio data description and a fusion approach in order to recognize behavioral cues and train classiﬁers able to eventually predict communication quality levels. The performance of the proposed system is tested on a novel dataset containing Bachelor thesis’ real defenses, presentations from an 8th semester Bachelor courses, and Master courses’ presentations at Universitat de Barcelona. Using as grou...

Alvaro Cepero, Albert Clapés, Sergio Escale

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