The CHIL audiovisual corpus for lecture and meeting analysis inside smart rooms

The analysis of lectures and meetings inside smart rooms has recently attracted much interest in the literature, being the focus of international projects and technology evaluations. A key enabler for progress in this area is the availability of appropriate multimodal and multi-sensory corpora, annotated with rich human activity information during lectures and meetings. This paper is devoted to exactly such a corpus, developed in the framework of the European project CHIL, “Computers in the Human Interaction Loop”. The resulting data set drastically advances the state-of-the-art, by providing numerous synchronized audio and video streams of real lectures and meetings, captured in multiple recording sites over the past four years. It particularly overcomes typical shortcomings of other existing databases that may contain limited sensory or monomodal data, exhibit constrained human behavior and interaction patterns, or lack data variability. The CHIL corpus is accompanied by rich man...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: LRE
• Authors: Djamel Mostefa, Nicolas Moreau, Khalid Choukri, Gerasimos Potamianos, Stephen M. Chu, Ambrish Tyagi, Josep R. Casas, Jordi Turmo, Luca Cristoforetti, Francesco Tobia, Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, Vasileios Mylonakis, Fotios Talantzis, Susanne Burger, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, Cedrick Rochet
• Keywords: Human Interaction Loop, Lectures, LRE 2007, Rich Human Activity