Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions

COST Action 2102 International Conference Prague, Czech Republic, October 15-18, 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers
2009
ISBN: 978-3-642-03319-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 5641, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

This volume brings together the peer-reviewed contributions of the participants at the COST 2102 International Conference on “Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions” held in Prague, Czech Republic, October 15–18, 2008. The conference was sponsored by COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, www. cost. esf. org/domains_actions/ict) in the - main of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for disseminating the research advances developed within COST Action 2102: “Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication” http://cost2102. cs. stir. ac. uk. COST 2102 research networking has contributed to modifying the conventional theoretical approach to the cross-modal analysis of verbal and nonverbal communi- tion changing the concept of face to face communication with that of body to body communication as well as developing the idea of embodied information. Information is no longer the result of a difference in perception and is no longer measured in terms of quantity of stimuli, since the research developed in COST 2102 has proved that human information processing is a nonlinear process that cannot be seen as the sum of the numerous pieces of information available. Considering simply the pieces of inf- mation available, results in a model of the receiver as a mere decoder, and produces a huge simplification of the communication process.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vích, Robert

Esposito, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion User Interface Design & Benutzerfreundlichkeit
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Mustererkennung, Biometrik
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Interface Design, Interaktionsdesign, Application Design
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Animation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Natürliche Sprachen & Maschinelle Übersetzung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Emotions and ICT.- Cross-Fertilization between Studies on ICT Practices of Use and Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication.- Theories without Heart.- Prosodic Characteristics and Emotional Meanings of Slovak Hot-Spot Words.- Affiliations, Emotion and the Mobile Phone.- Polish Emotional Speech Database – Recording and Preliminary Validation.- Towards a Framework of Critical Multimodal Analysis: Emotion in a Film Trailer.- Biosignal Based Emotion Analysis of Human-Agent Interactions.- Emotional Aspects in User Experience with Interactive Digital Television: A Case Study on Dyslexia Rehabilitation.- Investigation of Normalised Time of Increasing Vocal Fold Contact as a Discriminator of Emotional Voice Type.- Evaluation of Speech Emotion Classification Based on GMM and Data Fusion.- Spectral Flatness Analysis for Emotional Speech Synthesis and Transformation.- Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Computational Phonetics.- Voice Pleasantness of Female Voices and the Assessment of Physical Characteristics.- Technical and Phonetic Aspects of Speech Quality Assessment: The Case of Prosody Synthesis.- Syntactic Doubling: Some Data on Tuscan Italian.- Perception of Czech in Noise: Stability of Vowels.- Challenges in Segmenting the Czech Lateral Liquid.- Implications of Acoustic Variation for the Segmentation of the Czech Trill /r/.- Voicing in Labial Plosives in Czech.- Normalization of the Vocalic Space.- Algorithmic and Theoretical Analysis of Multimodal Interfaces.- Gaze Behaviors for Virtual Crowd Characters.- Gestural Abstraction and Restatement: From Iconicity to Metaphor.- Preliminary Prosodic and Gestural Characteristics of Instructing Acts in Polish Task-Oriented Dialogues.- Polish Children’s Gesticulation in Narrating (Re-telling) a Cartoon.-Prediction of Learning Abilities Based on a Cross-Modal Evaluation of Non-verbal Mental Attributes Using Video-Game-Like Interfaces.- Automatic Sentence Modality Recognition in Children’s Speech, and Its Usage Potential in the Speech Therapy.- Supporting Engagement and Floor Control in Hybrid Meetings.- Behavioral Consistency Extraction for Face Verification.- Protecting Face Biometric DCT Templates by Means of Pseudo-random Permutations.- Facial Expressions Recognition from Image Sequences.- Czech Artificial Computerized Talking Head George.- An Investigation into Audiovisual Speech Correlation in Reverberant Noisy Environments.- Articulatory Speech Re-synthesis: Profiting from Natural Acoustic Speech Data.- A Blind Source Separation Based Approach for Speech Enhancement in Noisy and Reverberant Environment.- Quantitative Analysis of the Relative Local Speech Rate.- Czech Spontaneous Speech Collection and Annotation: The Database of Technical Lectures.- BSSGUI – A Package for Interactive Control of Blind Source Separation Algorithms in MATLAB.- Accuracy Analysis of Generalized Pronunciation Variant Selection in ASR Systems.- Analysis of the Possibilities to Adapt the Foreign Language Speech Recognition Engines for the Lithuanian Spoken Commands Recognition.- MLLR Transforms Based Speaker Recognition in Broadcast Streams.