The detection of laughter in conversational interaction presents an important challenge in meeting understanding, important primarily because laughter is predictive of the emotion...
Abstract. The paper presents an evaluation of both head pose and visual focus of attention (VFOA) estimation algorithms in a meeting room environment. Head orientation is estimated...
Unobtrusive and multiple-sensor interfaces enable observation of natural human behavior in smart environments. Being able to detect, analyze and interpret this activity allows for...
Automatic segmentation is an important technology for both automatic speech recognition and automatic speech understanding. In meetings, participants typically vocalize for only a ...
—A user’s focus of attention plays an important role in human–computer interaction applications, such as a ubiquitous computing environment and intelligent space, where the u...