Publications by Alessandro Vinciarelli

Klewel Webcast: from Research to Growing Company

Jean-Marc Odobez, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Sandy Ingram

The main motivations behind the webcasting company, Klewel, were to go beyond text-based conference proceedings to offer a user-friendly way to browse and replay presentations, access slides, and search for specific information within a recording. As the p ...

2015

A Survey on Perceived Speaker Traits: Personality, Likability, Pathology and the First Challenge

Gelareh Mohammadi, Félix Burkhardt, Alessandro Vinciarelli

The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge aimed at a unified test-bed for perceived speaker traits – the first challenge of this kind: personality in the five OCEAN personality dimensions, likability of speakers, and intelligibility of pathologic speake ...

Elsevier2015

A Survey of Personality Computing

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect, any technology involving understanding, prediction and synthesis of human ...

2014

Who is Persuasive? The Role of Perceived Personality and Communication Modality in Social Multimedia

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

2013

The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

2012

Conversation Analysis at Work: Detection of Conflict in Competitive Discussions through Automatic Turn-Organization Analysis

Alessandro Vinciarelli

This study proposes a semi-automatic approach aimed at detecting conflict in conversations. The approach is based on statistical techniques capable of identifying turn-organization regularities associated with conflict. The only manual step of the process ...

2012

Bridging the Gap Between Social Animal and Unsocial Machine: A Survey of Social Signal Processing

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Social Signal Processing is the research domain aimed at bridging the social intelligence gap between humans and machines. This paper is the first survey of the domain that jointly considers its three major aspects, namely, modeling, analysis, and synthesi ...

2012

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Conversations: an Approach Based on Turn Organization, Prosody and Conditional Random Fields

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Roles are a key aspect of social interactions, as they contribute to the overall predictability of social behavior (a necessary requirement to deal effectively with the people around us), and they result in stable, possibly machine-detectable behavioral pa ...

2012

Automatic Personality Perception: Prediction of Trait Attribution Based on Prosodic Features

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

2012

Automatic Personality Perception: Prediction of Trait Attribution Based on Prosodic Features

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Whenever we listen to a voice for the first time, we attribute personality traits to the speaker. The process takes place in a few seconds and it is spontaneous and unaware. While the process is not necessarily accurate (attributed traits do not necessaril ...

2012