This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
We present a novel technique for generating animation of laughter for a character. Our approach utilizes an anatomically inspired, physics-based model of a human torso that includ...
Paul C. DiLorenzo, Victor B. Zordan, Benjamin L. S...
In this study, a system that discriminates laughter from speech by modelling the relationship between audio and visual features is presented. The underlying assumption is that thi...
Browsing through collections of audio recordings of conversation nominally relies on the processing of participants’ lexical productions. The evolving verbal and non-verbal cont...
Laughter is an intrinsic component of human-human interaction, and current automatic speech understanding paradigms stand to gain significantly from its detection and modeling. In...
This paper presents the large audiovisual laughter database recorded as part of the AVLaughterCycle project held during the eNTERFACE'09 Workshop in Genova. 24 subjects parti...
Laughter is a powerful means of emotion expression which has not yet been used in speech synthesis. The current paper reports on a pilot study in which differently created types of...
The detection of laughter in conversational interaction presents an important challenge in meeting understanding, important primarily because laughter is predictive of the emotion...