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Facial expression

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A 3-D Audio-Visual Corpus of Affective Communication

Communication between humans deeply relies on the capability of expressing and recognizing feelings. For this reason, research on human-machine interaction needs to focus on the recognition and simulation of emotional states, prerequisite of which is the c ...

2010

View-Based Appearance Model Online Learning for 3D Deformable Face Tracking

Jean-Marc Odobez, Stephanie Lefèvre

In this paper we address the issue of joint estimation of head pose and facial actions. We propose a method that can robustly track both subtle and extreme movements by combining two types of features: structural features observed at characteristic points ...

2010

Sizing of riprap for spill-through abutments

Anton Schleiss, António Heleno Cardoso

An experimental investigation of riprap stability at spill-through abutments has been carried out in two similar horiontal-bed flumes, avoiding riprap failure modes other than shear failure and erosion failure. Tests were conducted for two common abutment ...

2010

Culture, gaze and the neural processing of fear expressions

Nouchine Hadjikhani

The direction of others' eye gaze has important influences on how we perceive their emotional expressions. Here, we examined differences in neural activation to direct-versus averted-gaze fear faces as a function of culture of the participant (Japanese ver ...

2010

Expression analysis of novel striatal-enriched genes in Huntington disease

Selective degeneration of striatal neurons is a pathologic hallmark of Huntington disease (HD). The exact mechanism(s) behind this specific neurodegeneration is still unknown. Expression studies of diseased human post-mortem brain, as well as different mou ...

Oxford University Press2010

Modelling human perception of facial expressions

Michel Bierlaire, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Matteo Sorci, Javier Cruz Mota, Thomas Robin

Facial expression recognition by human observers is affected by subjective components. Indeed there is no ground truth. We have developped Discrete Choice Models to capture the human perception of facial expressions. In a first step, the static case is tre ...

2009

Automatic facial expression recognition: a discrete choice approach

Michel Bierlaire

Automatic facial expression recognition finds applications in various fields where human-machine interactions are involved. We propose a framework based on discrete choice models, where we try to forecast how a human person would evaluate the facial expres ...

2009

Automatic face analysis in static and dynamic environments

Matteo Sorci

Faces play a vital role in people's daily lives, as they are able to convey many different information and above all their behaviour and emotions. Therefore, for decades the face has been investigated by researchers in several fields such as computer scien ...

EPFL2009

Impact de la communication voco-visuelle dans le management sur la motivation des collaborateurs

Our research work wishes to highlight the importance of the relationship between the vocal and physical behaviour of the manager and team motivation. In order to investigate this important relationship, a survey by means of a questionnaire and two field st ...

EPFL2009

Implicit Human Centered Tagging

Nicolae Suditu, Alessandro Vinciarelli

This paper provides a general introduction to the concept of Implicit Human-Centered Tagging (IHCT) - the automatic extraction of tags from nonverbal behavioral feedback of media users. The main idea behind IHCT is that nonverbal behaviors displayed when i ...

2009

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