Vocal activity detection is an important technology for both automatic speech recognition and automatic speech understanding. In meetings, standard vocal activity detection algori...
Facilitation in GSS meetings is considered among the most important critical success factors for effective GSS application. A considerable amount of research on GSS facilitation h...
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Jessica Boonstra, Fred Niederm...
All students of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) attend undergraduate and postgraduate courses at a distance. The lack of a live academic community is reported by many as a drawb...
We address the problem of recognizing, in dynamic meetings in which people do not remain seated all the time, the visual focus of attention (VFOA) of seated people from their head...
In this paper a new approach for activity and dominance modeling in meetings is presented. For this purpose low level acoustic and visual features are extracted from audio and vid...