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ICMCS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Is this joke really funny? judging the mirth by audiovisual laughter analysis
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...
Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
TOG
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Laughing out loud: control for modeling anatomically inspired laughter using audio
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...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Classifying laughter and speech using audio-visual feature prediction
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...
Stavros Petridis, Ali Asghar, Maja Pantic
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Finding emotionally involved speech using implicitly proximity-annotated laughter
Browsing through collections of audio recordings of conversation nominally relies on the processing of participants’ lexical productions. The evolving verbal and non-verbal cont...
Kornel Laskowski
LREC
2008
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14 years 26 days ago
A Comparative Cross-Domain Study of the Occurrence of Laughter in Meeting and Seminar Corpora
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...
Susanne Burger, Kornel Laskowski, Matthias Wö...
LREC
2010
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14 years 27 days ago
The AVLaughterCycle Database
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...
Jérôme Urbain, Elisabetta Bevacqua, T...
ADS
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
How (Not) to Add Laughter to Synthetic Speech
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...
Jürgen Trouvain, Marc Schröder
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Contrasting emotion-bearing laughter types in multiparticipant vocal activity detection for meetings
The detection of laughter in conversational interaction presents an important challenge in meeting understanding, important primarily because laughter is predictive of the emotion...
Kornel Laskowski