Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL)




Dimensional emotion prediction from spontaneous head gestures for interaction with sensitive artificial listeners
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukH Gunes... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2010 - Springer
This paper focuses on dimensional prediction of emotions from spontaneous conversational 
head gestures. It maps the amount and direction of head motion, and occurrences of head 
nods and shakes into arousal, expectation, intensity, power and valence level of the ...
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Come and have an emotional workout with sensitive artificial listeners!
[PDF] from tum.deM Schroder, S Pammi, H Gunes... - Automatic Face & ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract This demonstration aims to showcase the recently completed SEMAINE system. 
The SEMAINE system is a publicly available, fully autonomous Sensitive Artificial Listeners 
(SAL) system that consists of virtual dialog partners based on audiovisual analysis and ...
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Building autonomous sensitive artificial listeners
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukM Schroder, E Bevacqua, R Cowie... - Affective Computing ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract This paper describes a substantial effort to build a real-time interactive multimodal 
dialogue system with a focus on emotional and non-verbal interaction capabilities. The work 
is motivated by the aim to provide technology with competences in interpreting and ...
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[PDF] Considering Social and Emotional Artificial Intelligence
[PDF] from dfki.deM Schröder... - Proc. AISB 2010 Symposium" Towards a ..., 2010 - dfki.de
... 4 SENSITIVE ARTIFICIAL LISTENERS The European project SEMAINE (www.semaine-project.
eu) aims to build a "machine" that possesses some social and emotional intelligence: a Sensitive
Artificial Listener (SAL) [9]. A SAL is a multimodal real-time dialogue system with a ... 
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[PDF] Cross-Corpus classification of realistic emotions-some pilot experiments
[PDF] from uni-erlangen.deF Eyben, A Batliner, B Schuller... - Proc. 3rd Internat. ..., 2010 - informatik.uni-erlangen.de
... 2. Corpora Table 1 shows the basic statistics of the four naturalistic emotion corpora used in this
study, namely the SmartKom Corpus (SmK), the FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus (Aibo), the Sensitive
Artificial Listener Corpus (SAL), and the Vera- am-Mittag Corpus (VAM). ... 
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Robust multi-stream keyword and non-linguistic vocalization detection for computationally intelligent virtual agents
[PDF] from tu-muenchen.deM Wöllmer, E Marchi, S Squartini... - Advances in Neural ..., 2011 - Springer
... Thereby we focus on the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) scenario which aims at maintaining
a natural conversation with different virtual ... 2 Sensitive Artificial Listeners ... one dialogue situation
in which one user is conversing with one of four available 1 http://semaine-project.eu/ ... 
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[PDF] The emotional and communicative significance of head nods and shakes in a naturalistic database
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukR Cowie, H Gunes, G McKeown... - Proc. of LREC Int. ..., 2010 - doc.ic.ac.uk
... SAL is short for 'sensitive artificial listener'. ... Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '04), vol. 1, pp.
610-616. Douglas-Cowie, E. Cowie, R. Cox, C. Amir, N. & Heylen, D. (2008) The sensitive artificial
listener: an induction technique for generating emotionally coloured conversation. ... 
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Selecting appropriate agent responses based on non-content features
[PDF] from utwente.nlM ter Maat... - Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... The Semaine Project is different. In this project, we try to create a SAL, a Sensitive Artificial Listener. ...
Also, the current rules do not display the right amount of sensitivity to the user and thus fail to
satisfy one of the major goals of the project: to create Sensitive Artificial Listeners. ... 
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The HUMAINE Database
[PDF] from utwente.nlE Douglas-Cowie, C Cox, JC Martin... - Emotion-Oriented ..., 2011 - Springer
... EmoTV Database (in French) Naturalistic Castaway Reality Television Data Set Naturalistic
Sensitive Artificial Listener (Belfast recordings in English) Induced Sensitive Artificial Listener
(Tel Aviv recordings in Hebrew) Induced Activity Data/Spaghetti Data Induced ... 
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[PDF] A Multimodal Listener Behaviour Driven by Audio Input
[PDF] from dfki.deE de Sevin, E Bevacqua, S Pammi... - ... Workshop on Interacting ..., 2010 - dfki.de
... 1. INTRODUCTION Our work is part of the EU project SEMAINE1, which aims at building an agent
called SAL (Sensitive Artificial Listener), endowed with social capabilities that it applies to sustain
an emotionally coloured conversation with a ... 1 http://www.semaine-project.eu/ ... 
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Multimodal backchannels for embodied conversational agents
[PDF] from telecom-paristech.frE Bevacqua, S Pammi, S Hyniewska... - Intelligent Virtual ..., 2010 - Springer
... This work is set within the Sensitive Artificial Listening Agent (SAL) project that is part of the EU
project SEMAINE (http://www.semaine-project.eu). ... Acknowledgement This work has been funded
by the STREP SEMAINE project IST-211486 (http://www.semaine-project.eu). ... 
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Switching linear dynamic models for recognition of emotionally colored and noisy speech
[PDF] from tu-muenchen.deM Wöllmer, N Klebert... - ITG-Fachbericht- ..., 2010 - vde-verlag.de
... for different noise conditions. All exper- iments are conducted on the Sensitive Artificial
Listener (SAL) corpus [4] which was recorded during natural, spon- taneous, and
emotional human-machine interactions. The structure of ... 
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On-line emotion recognition in a 3-D activation-valence-time continuum using acoustic and linguistic cues
[PDF] from utwente.nlF Eyben, M Wöllmer, A Graves, B Schuller... - Journal on Multimodal ..., 2010 - Springer
... 3 The SEMAINE system architecture The aim of the SEMAINE project1 is to build a Sensitive
Artificial Listener-a multimodal dialogue system with the social interaction skills needed for a
sustained conversation with a human user. ... 1http://www.semaine-project.eu/ ... 
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[PDF] CLASSIFICATION OF LISTENER LINGUISTIC VOCALISATIONS IN INTERACTIVE MEETINGS
[PDF] from eurasip.orgM Charfuelan, M Schröder... - 2011 - eurasip.org
... We have got a classifi- cation accuracy of 81% and 80% for stall and backchannel
linguistic vocalisations. The approach can be applied on the development of SAL
(sensitive artificial listener) systems or interative systems in general. ... 
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Opensmile: the munich versatile and fast open-source audio feature extractor
[PDF] from tu-muenchen.deF Eyben, M Wöllmer... - Proceedings of the international ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... in sec- tion 2, describe openSMILE's design principles in section 3 and the implemented features
and descriptors in section 4. We provide computation time benchmarks in section 5 and summarise
this overview paper in section 6. 1 http://www.semaine-project.eu/ 2 Available at ... 
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[PDF] Virtual feedback: perceived evidence for grounding
[PDF] from uvt.nlMJE Lammers - 2011 - arno.uvt.nl
... Page 12. 6 SEMAINE project 1 . Their aim is to build a Sensitive Artificial Listener: a multimodal
dialogue ... of adoption? 1 The sensitive agent project (http://www.semaine-project.eu/) 2 Augmented
Multi-party Interaction (http://www.amiproject.org/) Page 13. 7 Manipulation Effect ... 
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Collecting multi-modal data of human-robot interaction
JG Han, J Dalton, B Vaughan... - Cognitive ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... 9. References [1] Semaine, SAL, Sensitive Artificial Listener "http://www.semaine-
project.eu/". [2] Greta, Embodied Convcersational Agent "http://perso.telecom-
paristech.fr/ pelachau/Greta/". [3] E. de Sevin and E. Bevacqua ... 
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Emotion representation, analysis and synthesis in continuous space: A survey
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukH Gunes, B Schuller, M Pantic... - Automatic Face & ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) Database [47] consists of naturalistic audio-visual data
in the form of conversations that took place ... and adaptive virtual agents is the SEMAINE system
[100], a publicly available, fully autonomous Sensitive Artificial Listeners (SAL) system ... 
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A multimodal database for mimicry analysis
[PDF] from utwente.nlX Sun, J Lichtenauer, M Valstar, A Nijholt... - Affective Computing and ..., 2011 - Springer
... It uses the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) technique, described in [13] as "a specific type of
induction technique that focuses on conversation between a human and an agent that either
is or appears to be a machine and it is designed to capture a broad spectrum of emotional ... 
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Automatic segmentation of spontaneous data using dimensional labels from multiple coders
[PDF] from utwente.nlMA Nicolaou, H Gunes... - 2010 - eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl
... displays. We use the Sensitive Artificial Listener Database (SAL-DB) (Cowie et al.,
2005; Douglas-Cowie et al., 2007) and the SE- MAINE Database (SEMAINE-DB)
1 that contain audio- visual spontaneous expressions. 2.1. ... 
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AVEC 2011-The First International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukB Schuller, M Valstar, F Eyben, G McKeown... - Affective Computing ..., 2011 - Springer
... The scenario used is called the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) [4]. It involves a user interacting
Page 3. 1st Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge 417 Table 1. Overview of dataset make-up per
partition # / (h:m:s) / [ms] Train Development Test Total Sessions 31 32 32 95 ... 
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Virtual Rapport 2.0
[PDF] from usc.eduL Huang, LP Morency... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
... Page 2. Virtual Rapport 2.0 69 schizophrenia. The recent SEMAINE project built the
Sensitive Artificial Listener [9]. By exhibiting different styles of audiovisual listener
feedback, the listener is able to express four different personalities. ... 
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Bidirectional LSTM networks for context-sensitive keyword detection in a cognitive virtual agent framework
M Wöllmer, F Eyben, A Graves, B Schuller... - Cognitive Computation, 2010 - Springer
... 6. The SEMAINE Characters The aim of the SEMAINE project1 is to build a Sensitive Artificial
Listener-a multimodal dialogue system with the social interaction skills needed for a sustained
con- versation with a human user. ... 1 http://www.semaine-project.eu/. 182 ... 
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How turn-taking strategies influence users' impressions of an agent
[PDF] from utwente.nlM Ter Maat, K Truong... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2010 - Springer
... But why should the average length of the silence be as short as possi- ble? And why should
there be no overlapping speech? In the Semaine project (http://www.semaine-project.eu),
we aim to create four different ECAs, each with a different personality. ... 
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Flipper: An Information State Component for Spoken Dialogue Systems
M ter Maat... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2011 - Springer
... These preconditions check certain conditions in the IS, usually by comparing 1 http://sourceforge.
net/projects/hmiflipper/ 2 http://www.semaine-project.eu H. Högni Vilhjálmsson et al. (Eds.): IVA
2011, LNAI 6895, pp. 470-472, 2011. cO Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 ... 
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[PDF] Using Multiple Databases for Training in Emotion Recognition: To Unite or to Vote?
[PDF] from tum.deB Schuller, Z Zhang, F Weninger... - 2011 - mmk.ei.tum.de
... mercial presentation. AVIC is labelled in "level of interest" (loi) 1-3 having loi1 (-/-,
553), loi2 (+/+, 2279), and loi3 (+/+, 170). The Belfast Sensitive Artificial Listener
(SAL) data is part of the final HUMAINE database. We consider ... 
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A multi-stream ASR framework for BLSTM modeling of conversational speech
[PDF] from tu-muenchen.deM Wollmer, F Eyben, B Schuller... - Acoustics, Speech and ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... either blows up or decays 1http://semaine-project.eu/ 4860 978-1-4577-0539-7/11/
$26.00 (c)2011 IEEE ICASSP 2011 Page 2. net input forget gate input gate output
gate net output 1.0 ai ao Fig. 1. LSTM memory block consisting ... 
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Designing frameworks for automatic affect prediction and classification in dimensional space
MA Nicolaou, H Gunes... - Computer Vision and ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... frameworks. 2. Data set We used the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) Database
[2] for this work. It contains naturalistic audio-visual con- versational data taking place
between a participant and a human operated avatar. Each ... 
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Influence of personality traits on backchannel selection
[PDF] from free.frE De Sevin, S Hyniewska... - Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2010 - Springer
... has to display appropriate verbal and non-verbal behaviors according to its internal variables
such as personality and external variables [2]. This work is part of the EU SEMAINE project in
which an Embodied Conversa- tional Agent, called Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) [3 ... 
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Emotional states in judicial courtrooms: An experimental investigation
E Fersini, E Messina... - Speech Communication, 2011 - Elsevier
... Among them we point out the AudioVisual Interest Corpus (Schuller et al., 2009), the real-life
medical call center corpus CEMO (Devillers and Vidrascu, 2007), the Sensitive Artificial Listener
(Wöllmer et al., 2008), SmartKom (Steininger et al., 2002), and the Vera am Mittag ... 
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[PDF] Emotion-aware natural interaction
[PDF] from hindawi.comK Karpouzis, E Andre... - Advances in Human- ..., 2010 - downloads.hindawi.com
... in the research community. An interactive Sensitive Artificial Listener built within
the framework of the Semaine EU project is presented as an example of a full-scale
system built on top of this API. Three small example systems ... 
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[HTML] Emotion-Aware Natural Interaction
[HTML] from hindawi.comK Kostas, A Elisabeth... - Advances in Human-Computer ..., 2010 - hindawi.com
... in the research community. An interactive Sensitive Artificial Listener built within
the framework of the Semaine EU project is presented as an example of a full-scale
system built on top of this API. Three small example systems ... 
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A multi-layer hybrid framework for dimensional emotion classification
MA Nicolaou, H Gunes... - Proceedings of the 19th ACM ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... framework. 2. DATA SET We used the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) Database
[3] for this work. It contains naturalistic audio-visual con- versational data taking place
between a participant and a human operated avatar. Each ... 
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Special Issue on Emotion and Computing
DM Reichardt - KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 2011 - Springer
... 2.1 Projects and Organizations • HUMAINE Association, http://emotion-research.net/ •
SEMAINE, http://www.semaine-project.eu/ 2.2 Journal • IEEE Transactions on Affective
Computing, http://www. computer.org/portal/web/tac 2.3 Conferences ... 
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Combining long short-term memory and dynamic bayesian networks for incremental emotion-sensitive artificial listening
[HTML] from mendeley.comM Wollmer, B Schuller, F Eyben... - Selected Topics in ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... SENSITIVE ARTIFICIAL LISTENING The aim of the SEMAINE project1 is to build a sensitive
artificial listener-a multimodal dialogue system with the so- cial interaction skills needed for
a sustained ... 1http://www.semaine-project.eu/ 2http://emotion-research.net/download/pilot-db ... 
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The SEMAINE corpus of emotionally coloured character interactions
[PDF] from utwente.nlG McKeown, MF Valstar, R Cowie... - Multimedia and Expo ( ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... 305-317, Jan 2005. [2] E Douglas-Cowie, R Cowie, C Cox, N. Amir, and D Heylen, "The sensitive
artificial listener: an induction technique for gen- erating emotionally coloured conversation," in
Proc. Workshop Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect, 2008. ... 
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[PDF] Automatic, dimensional and continuous emotion recognition
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukH Gunes... - International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, 2010 - doc.ic.ac.uk
... dominance. Annotators 30 observers 4 Feeltrace coders 17 observers Content 90
emotionally-coloured pro- nunciations of the word 'ah' Humans interacting with a
Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) in a Wizard-of-Oz scenario 12 ... 
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[PDF] Building credible agents: Behaviour influenced by personality and emotional traits
[PDF] from telecom-paristech.frE Bevacqua, E de Sevin... - Proceedings of ..., 2010 - perso.telecom-paristech.fr
... 1CNRS - Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France 2School of Psychology Queen's University, Belfast,
UK ABSTRACT How do we construct credible personalities? The current SAL (Sensitive Artificial
Listeners) characters were constructed intuitively and can be unconvincing. ... 
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Multi-stream LSTM-HMM decoding and histogram equalization for noise robust keyword spotting
M Wöllmer, E Marchi, S Squartini... - Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2011 - Springer
... We will focus on optimizing our keyword spotter for the SEMAINE system which was developed
within the SEMAINE project.2 Unlike most task-oriented dialogue systems, the Sensitive Artificial
Listeners representing the SEMAINE system ... 2 http://www.semaine-project.eu. ... 
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[PDF] Wizard of Oz experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation
[PDF] from nick-webb.netN Webb, D Benyon, J Bradley... - Proceedings of the 7th ..., 2010 - nick-webb.net
... to test our evaluation paradigm on companionable dialogues, we devised a small series of WoZ
experiments using a system developed at Napier University (Bradley et al., 2009), which is
functionally similar if less developed than the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) system2 ... 
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A dynamic texture-based approach to recognition of facial actions and their temporal models
[PDF] from utwente.nlS Koelstra, M Pantic... - Pattern Analysis and Machine ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The generalization performance of the FFD method has been tested using the
Cohn-Kanade database. Finally, we also explored the performance on spontaneous
expressions in the Sensitive Artificial Listener data set. Index ... 
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Continuous Analysis of Affect from Voice and Face
H Gunes, MA Nicolaou... - Computer Analysis of Human ..., 2011 - Springer
... of affect from voice and face, and provide exper- imental results using the audiovisual Sensitive
Artificial Listener (SAL) Database of ... representation and prediction of emotions, ranging from
human-computer (eg, Sensitive Talking Heads [45], Sensitive Artificial Listeners [89, 90 ... 
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Affect listeners: Acquisition of affective states by means of conversational systems
[PDF] from psu.eduM Skowron - Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening ..., 2010 - Springer
... The recently started project SEMAINE [24] aims to develop Sensitive Artificial Listeners -
conversational agents designed to sustain an interaction with a human user despite limited verbal
skills, through robust recognition and generation of non-verbal behavior in real time. ... 
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[PDF] Acquisition of a 3d audio-visual corpus of affective speech
[PDF] from ethz.chG Fanelli, J Gall, H Romsdorfer, T Weise... - 2010 - people.ee.ethz.ch
... of body postures; only a very coarse visual annotation is provided. Among the elicited sets, the
Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) database [20] contains audio-visual recordings of humans
conversating with a computer. The SAL interface is designed to let the user work ... 
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The SEMAINE API: towards a standards-based framework for building emotion-oriented systems
[HTML] from hindawi.comM Schröder - Advances in human-computer interaction, 2010 - dl.acm.org
... payload. <dialog-state xmlns="http://www.semaine-project.eu/semaineml"
version="0.0.1"> <speaker who="agent"/> <listener who="user"/> </dialog-state> Figure
5: An example SemaineML document representing dialogue state. ... 
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Deep neural networks for acoustic emotion recognition: Raising the benchmarks
[PDF] from mirlab.orgA Stuhlsatz, C Meyer, F Eyben... - ... , Speech and Signal ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... commercial presentation. AVIC is labelled in "level of interest" (loi) 1-3 having loi1 (-/-,
553), loi2 (+/+, 2279), and loi3 (+/+, 170). The Belfast Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL)
data is part of the final HUMAINE database. We consider ... 
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[BOOK] Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Proceedings
J Allbeck, N Badler, T Bickmore, C Pelachaud... - 2010 - books.google.com
... Making..... 357 Celso M. de Melo, Peter Carnevale, and Jonathan Gratch
Dimensional Emotion Prediction from Spontaneous Head Gestures for
Interaction with Sensitive Arti?cial Listeners..... 371 ... 
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Turkish emotional speech database
C Oflazoglu... - ... (SIU), 2011 IEEE 19th Conference on, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Bu tür veritabanlarina örnek olarak Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) [10], Airplane Behaviour
Corpus (ABC) [11], Speech Under Simulated and Actual Stress (SUSAS) [12], Audiovisual Inte-
rest Corpus (AVIC) [13], SmartKom [14]ve FAU AIBO [15] verilebilir. ... 
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Cross-media agent platform
[PDF] from telecom-paristech.frR Niewiadomski, M Obaid, E Bevacqua... - Proceedings of the 16th ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... 3www.semaine-project.eu variants" proposed by Calbris [Calbris 1984]. ... 9 Acknowledgment This
work has been funded by the STREP SEMAINE project IST- 211486 (http://www.semaine-project.
eu), and by French National Projects MyPresentingAvatar, IMMEMO and GVLEX. ... 
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[PDF] Greta: Une Plateforme d'Agent Conversationnel Expressif et Interactif
[PDF] from telecom-paristech.frE de Sevin, R Niewiadomski... - TSI. Technique et ..., 2010 - perso.telecom-paristech.fr
Page 1. Greta : Une Plateforme d'Agent Conversationnel Expressif et Interactif Etienne
de Sevin* - Radoslaw Niewiadomski* - Elisabetta Bevacqua* - André-Marie Pez* -
Maurizio Mancini** - Cathe- rine Pelachaud* * CNRS ... 
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Voice and Speech Analysis in Search of States and Traits
[PDF] from tum.deB Schuller - Computer Analysis of Human Behavior, 2011 - Springer
Page 1. Chapter 9 Voice and Speech Analysis in Search of States and Traits Björn Schuller 9.1
Vocal Behaviour Analysis-an Introduction It is the aim of this chapter to introduce the analysis
of vocal behaviour and more general paralinguistics in speech and language. ... 
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[PDF] Recent Developments in Social Signal Processing
[PDF] from gla.ac.ukAA Salah, M Pantic... - IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, ..., 2011 - dcs.gla.ac.uk
... dominant. In particular, the sensitive artificial listener (SAL) technique proposes
that it may be possible to give adequate responses based on such nonverbal cues,
even if what the other party is saying is not understood [46]. ... 
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Output-associative rvm regression for dimensional and continuous emotion prediction
MA Nicolaou, H Gunes... - Automatic Face & Gesture ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Therefore, OA-RVM induces no further computational complexity to the RVM algorithm.
IV. DATA SET AND FEATURE EXTRACTION As a proof of concept for this work, we
use the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) Database [19]. ... 
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Continuous Prediction of Spontaneous Affect from Multiple Cues and Modalities in Valence&# x2014; Arousal Space
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukM Nicolaou, H Gunes... - Affective Computing, IEEE ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... Of these [10] uses the SAL (Sensitive Artificial Listener) database, similar to our work presented
in this paper, and combines information from audio (acoustic cues) and visual (Fa- cial Animation
Parameters used in animating MPEG-4 models) modalities. Nicolaou et al. ... 
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[PDF] FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS
[PDF] from psu.eduA Raouzaiou, S Ioannou, K Karpouzis, S Kollias... - 2010 - Citeseer
... Possible applications include human-like agents, that assist everyday chores and
react to user emotions or sensitive artificial listeners that introduce conversation topics
and react them- selves to specific user cues. REFERENCES ... 
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Towards affective state modeling in narrative and conversational settings
[PDF] from utwente.nlB Jochems, M Larson, R Ordelman, R Poppe... - 2010 - doc.utwente.nl
... 5.1. SEMAINE emotional color interaction corpus The SEMAINE corpus of emotionally colored
character inter- actions contains recordings of interaction sessions between a human user and
an agent, ie, a human playing a particular Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL). ... 
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Classifying laughter and speech using audio-visual feature prediction
[PDF] from utwente.nlS Petridis, A Asghar... - Acoustics Speech and Signal ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... 137-140. [9] E. Douglas-Cowie, R. Cowie, C. Cox, N. Amir, and D. Heylen, "The Sensitive
Artificial Listener: an in- duction technique for generating emotionally coloured conversation,"
in Workshop on Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect, 2008, pp. ... 
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The SEMAINE database: Annotated multimodal records of emotionally coloured conversations between a person and a limited agent
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukG McKeown, M Valstar, R Cowie... - Affective Computing ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... not a unique problem. 2 THE SAL SCENARIO The 'Sensitive Artificial Listener'
scenario had been ex- tensively trialled and refined before SEMAINE adopted it.
It was originally suggested by TV chat shows. Not al- ways, but ... 
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Incremental acoustic valence recognition: an inter-corpus perspective on features, matching, and performance in a gating paradigm
[PDF] from tu-muenchen.deB Schuller... - Eleventh Annual Conference of the ..., 2010 - isca-speech.org
... 6. References [1] M. Schröder, R. Cowie, D. Heylen, M. Pantic, C. Pelachaud, and B.
Schuller, "Towards responsive sensitive artificial listeners," in Proc. 4th International
Workshop on Human-Computer Conversa- tion, Bellagio, Italy, 2008. ... 
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Smart recognition and synthesis of emotional speech for embedded systems with natural user interfaces
M Malcangi - ... Networks (IJCNN), The 2011 International Joint ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... 350-360. [7] M. Schröder, M, R. Cowie, D. Heylen, M. Pantic., C. Pelachaud, B. Schuller,
"Towards responsive Sensitive Artificial Listeners," Fourth International Workshop
on Human-Computer Conversation., 2008, Bellagio, Italy. ... 
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Prediction-based classification for audiovisual discrimination between laughter and speech
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukS Petridis, M Pantic... - Automatic Face & Gesture ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... SAL: The Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) technique as described in [25] "focuses on
conversation between a human and an agent that either is or appears to be a machine
and it is designed to capture a broad spectrum of emotional states". ... 
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String-based audiovisual fusion of behavioural events for the assessment of dimensional affect
[PDF] from tum.deF Eyben, M Wollmer, MF Valstar... - Automatic Face & ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The scenario used for this is called the Sensitive Artificial Listener, SAL for short. It involves a
user interacting with emotionally stereotyped "characters" whose responses are stock phrases
keyed to the user's emotional state rather than the content of what he/she says. ... 
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Design and implementation of an affect-responsive interactive photo frame
[PDF] from boun.edu.trH Dibeklioglu, M Ortega Hortas, I Kosunen... - Journal on Multimodal ..., 2011 - Springer
... In this project camera-based tracking is used to determine proximity and head orientation of
the user. A responsive interactive system in which virtual charac- ters react to real users was
proposed in [26], called an Audio- visual Sensitive Artificial Listener. ... 
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[PDF] Multilingual voice creation toolkit for the MARY TTS platform
[PDF] from dfki.deS Pammi, M Charfuelan... - Proc. LREC. Valettea, Malta: ELRA, 2010 - dfki.de
... The languages already supported by the toolkit are German, US English, GB English, Turkish
and Telugu for which the latest version of MARY TTS (Version 4.0) provide unit se- lection and
HMM-based voices freely available. 5http://www.semaine-project.eu/ Page 7. ... 
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Automatic measurement of affect in dimensional and continuous spaces: Why, what, and how?
[PDF] from utwente.nlH Gunes... - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... Press. 25. Schröder, M., Bevacqua, E., Eyben, F., Gunes, H., Heylen, D., Maat, M., Pammi,
S., Pantic, M., Pelachaud, C., Schuller, B., Sevin, E., Valstar, M. &Wöllmer, M. A
demonstration of audiovisual sensitive artificial listeners, Proc. of Int. Conf. ... 
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Issues in Data Collection
R Cowie, E Douglas-Cowie, M McRorie... - Emotion-Oriented ..., 2011 - Springer
... signs of breakdown are. The 'Sensitive Artificial Listener' scenario (SAL for short)
has used Wizard- of-Oz techniques to simulate human-machine interactions on
emotive subjects (Douglas-Cowie et al., 2007). The scenario is ... 
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[PDF] the Munich open Speech and Music Interpretation by Large Space Extraction toolkit
[PDF] from mirrorservice.orgF Eyben, M Woellmer... - 2010 - mirrorservice.org
... You can then run the same steps as in section 2.2.2, the configure script should
automatically detect your installation of PortAudio. 3See: http://www.semaine-project.
eu/ Page 17. 2.2. COMPILING THE OPENSMILE SOURCE CODE 17 ... 
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Symbolic vs. acoustics-based style control for expressive unit selection
[PDF] from uni-saarland.deI Steiner, M Schröder, M Charfuelan... - Seventh ISCA Workshop ..., 2010 - isca-speech.org
... Int. Conf. Language Resources and Evaluation, Malta, 2010. [17] E. Douglas-Cowie, R.
Cowie, C. Cox, N. Amir, and D. Heylen, "The Sensitive Artificial Listener: an induction
technique for gen- erating emotionally coloured conversation," in 2nd Int. ... 
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Differences in listener responses between procedural and narrative task
I de Kok... - Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... Journal of Pragmatics, 35(7):1113-1142, July 2003. [8] D. Heylen, A. Nijholt, and M. Poel.
Generating nonverbal signals for a sensitive artificial listener. In Proceedings of Intelligent
Virtual Agents, volume 4775, page 264, Paris, France, 2007. Springer. ... 
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Principles and History
R Cowie, E Douglas-Cowie, I Sneddon... - Emotion-Oriented ..., 2011 - Springer
... subjects asked to recall personal experiences involving each of the emotional states Size: 140
subjects 60 Hebrew speakers 1 Russian speaker Kind: Non-interactive, unscripted discourse
Language: Hebrew, Russian SAL database (http://semaine-project.eu/, D09) Modalities ... 
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Multimodal user's affective state analysis in naturalistic interaction
[PDF] from ntua.grG Caridakis, K Karpouzis, M Wallace... - Journal on Multimodal ..., 2010 - Springer
Page 1. J Multimodal User Interfaces (2010) 3: 49-66 DOI 10.1007/s12193-009-0030-8
ORIGINAL PAPER Multimodal user's affective state analysis in naturalistic interaction George
Caridakis · Kostas Karpouzis · Manolis Wallace · Loic Kessous · Noam Amir ... 
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Computational Assessment of Interest in Speech-Facing the Real-Life Challenge
M Wöllmer, F Weninger, F Eyben... - KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 2011 - Springer
Page 1. Künstl Intell DOI 10.1007/s13218-011-0108-9 FACHBEITRAG Computational
Assessment of Interest in Speech-Facing the Real-Life Challenge Martin Wöllmer ·
Felix Weninger · Florian Eyben · Björn Schuller Received ... 
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Learning and evaluating response prediction models using parallel listener consensus
[PDF] from usc.eduI de Kok, D Ozkan, D Heylen... - International Conference on ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
Page 1. Learning and Evaluating Response Prediction Models using Parallel Listener
Consensus Iwan de Kok Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
koki@ewi.utwente.nl Derya Ozkan Institute for Creative Technologies ... 
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[PDF] The essential role of human databases for learning in and validation of affectively competent agents
[PDF] from qub.ac.ukR Cowie, E Douglas-Cowie, JC Martin... - A Blueprint for ..., 2010 - psych.qub.ac.uk
... A useful way to do that is to return to the ACII 2009 conference. The system which won the prize
for best demonstration, the "Sensitive Artificial Listener" (abbreviated to SAL), was designed to
achieve an ongoing, affectively coloured interaction with a human user. ... 
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Inducing Genuine Emotions in Simulated Speech-Based Human-Machine Interaction: The NIMITEK Corpus
M Gnjatovic... - Affective Computing, IEEE ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... adult subjects. Douglas-Cowie et al. introduce the Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL)
[7]- an induction technique inspired by a technique for inducing emotions that is
often (successfully) applied in talk-shows. Moderators in such ... 
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Dispositifs techniques pour l'éducation, la formation et l'apprentissage
B Blandin - Distances et savoirs, 2010 - cairn.info
... http://docs.moodle.org/en/Philosophy. SEMAINE, The Sensitive Agent project, 2009.
http://www.semaine-project.eu/. Traxler J., "Defining, Discussing and Evaluating Mobile Learning",
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol 8, n° 2, 2007. ... 
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Audiovisual Discrimination Between Speech and Laughter: Why and When Visual Information Might Help
[PDF] from ic.ac.ukS Petridis... - Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... s03), with or without glasses and no facial hair. Nine participants are of Caucasian
origin and one is of Asian origin. SAL dataset: The Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL)
technique is described in [14] as "a specific type of induction ... 
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[BOOK] Audio-Visual Event Recognition with Graphical Models
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Page 1. TECHNISCHE UNIVERSIT¨AT M¨UNCHEN Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-
Kommunikation Audio-Visual Event Recognition with Graphical Models Benedikt Hörnler
Vollständiger Abdruck der von der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik ... 
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Detecting emotional intensity peaks in narrative conversational settings
[PDF] from utwente.nlB Jochems - 2010 - essay.utwente.nl
Page 1. Human Media Interaction University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede The
Netherlands Detecting Emotional Intensity Peaks in Narrative and Conversational Settings by
Bart Jochems behjochems@student.utwente.nl July 2, 2010 Committee ... 
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Social Signal Processing: The Research Agenda
M Pantic, R Cowie, F D'Errico, D Heylen... - Visual Analysis of ..., 2011 - Springer
Page 1. Chapter 26 Social Signal Processing: The Research Agenda Maja Pantic,
Roderick Cowie, Francesca D'Errico, Dirk Heylen, Marc Mehu, Catherine Pelachaud,
Isabella Poggi, Marc Schroeder, and Alessandro Vinciarelli ... 
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[PDF] Continuous interaction with a virtual human
[PDF] from utwente.nlD Reidsma, KP Truong, H van Welbergen... - 2010 - eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl
Page 1. ENTERFACE'10, JULY 12TH - AUGUST 6TH, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
24 Continuous Interaction with a Virtual Human Dennis Reidsma, Khiet Truong, Herwin van
Welbergen, Daniel Neiberg, Sathish Pammi, Iwan de Kok, and Bart van Straalen ... 
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[PDF] In search of the conversational homunculus
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Page 1. In search of the conversational homunculus serving to understand spoken human
face-to-face interaction JENS EDLUND Doctoral Thesis Stockholm, Sweden 2011 Page 2. ii
Cover: 19th century engraving of a homunculus from Goethe's Faust, part II. ... 
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Cross-corpus acoustic emotion recognition: Variances and strategies
B Schuller, B Vlasenko, F Eyben... - Affective Computing ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page 1. Cross-Corpus Acoustic Emotion Recognition: Variances and Strategies Björn
Schuller, Member, IEEE, Bogdan Vlasenko, Florian Eyben, Member, IEEE, Martin
Wöllmer, Member, IEEE, André Stuhlsatz, Andreas Wendemuth ... 
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Recognising realistic emotions and affect in speech: State of the art and lessons learnt from the first challenge
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Emotional recognition in computing
[PDF] from brunel.ac.ukLA Axelrod - School of Information Systems, Computing and ..., 2010 - bura.brunel.ac.uk
Page 1. EMOTIONAL RECOGNITION IN COMPUTING A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy by Lesley Ann Axelrod School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
Brunel University September 2009 Page 2. Emotion Recognition in Computing ... 
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Tandem decoding of children's speech for keyword detection in a child-robot interaction scenario
[PDF] from kuleuven.beM Wöllmer, B Schuller, A Batliner... - ACM Transactions on ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
Page 1. 12 Tandem Decoding of Children's Speech for Keyword Detection in a
Child-Robot Interaction Scenario MARTIN W ¨OLLMER and BJ ¨ORN SCHULLER,
Technische Universität M ünchen ANTON BATLINER and STEFAN ... 
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Recognizing Affect from Linguistic Information in 3D Continuous Space
B Schuller - Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page 1. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING, VOL. X, NO. X, MONTH
YEAR 1 Recognizing Affect from Linguistic Information in 3D Continuous Space Björn
Schuller, Member, IEEE Abstract-Most research efforts ... 
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[PDF] Natural Language Descriptions of Emotion
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Page 1. Natural Language Descriptions of Emotion Abe Kazemzadeh May
11, 2011 Page 2. Contents 1 Introduction 5 1.1 Motivation . . . . . 5 1.2 Open
Challenges . . . . . 8 1.3 Problem Statement . . . . . 10 ... 
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Survey on mining subjective data on the web
[PDF] from unitn.itM Tsytsarau... - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2011 - Springer
Page 1. Data Min Knowl Disc DOI 10.1007/s10618-011-0238-6 Survey on mining
subjective data on the web Mikalai Tsytsarau · Themis Palpanas Received: 13 January
2010 / Accepted: 8 September 2011 (c) The Author(s) 2011 ... 
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