The current state of the art virtual characters fall far short of characters produced by skilled animators. One reason for this is that the physical behaviors of virtual characters...
In this paper we evaluate the effect of the emotional state of a speaker when text-independent speaker identification is performed. The spectral features used for speaker recogni...
Marius Vasile Ghiurcau, Corneliu Rusu, Jaakko Asto...
In this paper, we study the role of emotions and expressive behaviour in socially interactive characters employed in educational games. More specifically, on how we can use such e...
To improve the performance and wellbeing of humans in complex human-computer interaction settings, an interesting challenge for an ambient (or pervasive) agent system is to recogni...
: All speech produced by humans includes information about the speaker, including conveying the emotional state of the speaker. It is thus desirable to include vocal affect in any ...