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COST
2008
Springer
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Articulatory Speech Re-synthesis: Profiting from Natural Acoustic Speech Data
The quality of static phones (e.g. vowels, fricatives, nasals, laterals) generated by articulatory speech synthesizers has reached a high level in the last years. Our goal is to ex...
Dominik Bauer, Jim Kannampuzha, Bernd J. Krög...
COST
2008
Springer
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Facial Expressions Recognition from Image Sequences
Abstract. Human machine interaction is one of the emerging fields for the coming years. Interacting with others in our daily life is a face to face interaction. Faces are the natur...
Zahid Riaz, Christoph Mayer, Michael Beetz, Bernd ...
COST
2008
Springer
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Preliminary Prosodic and Gestural Characteristics of Instructing Acts in Polish Task-Oriented Dialogues
In the present study, selected properties of multimodal instructing acts are discussed. Realisations of the instructing acts extracted from a corpus of task-oriented dialogues are ...
Maciej Karpinski
COST
2008
Springer
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Biosignal Based Emotion Analysis of Human-Agent Interactions
A two-phase procedure, based on biosignal recordings, is applied in an attempt to classify the emotion valence content in human-agent interactions. In the first phase, participants...
Evgenia Hristova, Maurice Grinberg, Emilian Lalev
COST
2008
Springer
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Supporting Engagement and Floor Control in Hybrid Meetings
Remote participants in hybrid meetings often have problems to follow what is going on in the (physical) meeting room they are connected with. This paper describes a videoconferenci...
Rieks op den Akker, Dennis Hofs, Hendri Hondorp, H...
COST
2008
Springer
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Multimodality Issues in Conversation Analysis of Greek TV Interviews
This paper presents a study on multimodal conversation analysis of Greek TV interviews. Specifically, we examine the type of facial, hand and body gestures and their respective com...
Maria Koutsombogera, Harris Papageorgiou
COST
2008
Springer
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Towards Facial Gestures Generation by Speech Signal Analysis Using HUGE Architecture
In our current work we concentrate on finding correlation between speech signal and occurrence of facial gestures. Motivation behind this work is computer-generated human correspon...
Goranka Zoric, Karlo Smid, Igor S. Pandzic
COST
2008
Springer
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Automatic Motherese Detection for Face-to-Face Interaction Analysis
This paper deals with emotional speech detection in home movies. In this study, we focus on infant-directed speech also called "motherese" which is characterized by highe...
Ammar Mahdhaoui, Mohamed Chetouani, Cong Zong, Raq...
COST
2008
Springer
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Using Context to Disambiguate Communicative Signals
After perceiving multi-modal behaviour from a user or agent a conversational agent needs to be able to determine what was intended with that behaviour. Contextual variables play an...
Mark ter Maat, Dirk Heylen
COST
2008
Springer
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From Extensity to Protensity in CAS: Adding Sounds to Icons
Abstract. Being aware of the gap between technological offers and user expectations, the paper aims to illustrate the necessity of anthropocentric designs ("user-pulled")...
Alina E. Lascu, Alexandru V. Georgescu