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More Than Words: Inference of Socially Relevant Information from Nonverbal Vocal Cues in Speech

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

This paper presents two examples of how nonverbal commu- nication can be automatically detected and interpreted in terms of social phenomena. In particular, the presented approaches use simple prosodic features to distinguish between journalists and non-jo ...

Springer2011

The Voice of Personality: Mapping Nonverbal Vocal Behavior into Trait Attributions

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

This paper reports preliminary experiments on automatic attribution of personality traits based on nonverbal vocal behavioral cues. In particular, the work shows how prosodic features can be used to predict, with an accuracy up to 75% depending on the trai ...

2010

Towards a Technology of Nonverbal Communication

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Nonverbal communication is the main channel through which we experience inner life of others, including their emotions, feelings, moods, social attitudes, etc. This attracts the interest of the computing community because nonverbal communication is based o ...

IGI-Global2010

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Recordings Using Social Networks and Probabilistic Sequential Models

Sarah Favre, Alessandro Vinciarelli

The automatic analysis of social interactions is attracting significant interest in the multimedia community. This work addresses one of the most important aspects of the problem, namely the recognition of roles in social exchanges. The proposed approach i ...

2009

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Recordings: Using Social Affiliation Networks for Feature Extraction

Sarah Favre, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Automatic analysis of social interactions attracts increasing attention in the multimedia community. This paper considers one of the most important aspects of the problem, namely the roles played by individuals interacting in different settings. In particu ...

2009

Canal9: A database of political debates for analysis of social interactions

Sarah Favre, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Automatic analysis of social interactions attracts major attention in the computing community, but relatively few benchmarks are available to researchers active in the domain. This paper presents a new, publicly available, corpus of political debates inclu ...

2009

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

As humans appear to be literally wired for social interaction, it is not surprising to observe that social aspects of human behavior and psychology attract interest in the computing community as well. The gap between social animal and unsocial machine was ...

2009

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for s ...

2009

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This paper presents experiments on the automatic recognition of roles in meetings. The proposed approach combines two sources of information: the lexical choices made by people playing different roles on one hand, and the Social Networks describing the int ...

2008