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ICMI
2009
Springer
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Dialog in the open world: platform and applications
We review key challenges of developing spoken dialog systems that can engage in interactions with one or multiple participants in relatively unconstrained environments. We outline...
Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Agreement detection in multiparty conversation
This paper presents a system for the automatic detection of agreements in multi-party conversations. We investigate various types of features that are useful for identifying agree...
Sebastian Germesin, Theresa Wilson
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Learning and predicting multimodal daily life patterns from cell phones
In this paper, we investigate the multimodal nature of cell phone data in terms of discovering recurrent and rich patterns in people’s lives. We present a method that can discov...
Katayoun Farrahi, Daniel Gatica-Perez
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Salience in the generation of multimodal referring acts
Pointing combined with verbal referring is one of the most paradigmatic human multimodal behaviours. The aim of this paper is foundational: to uncover the central notions that are...
Paul Piwek
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Detecting, tracking and interacting with people in a public space
We have built a system that engages naive users in an audiovisual interaction with a computer in an unconstrained public space. We combine audio source localization techniques wit...
Sunsern Cheamanunkul, Evan Ettinger, Matt Jacobsen...
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Multimodal floor control shift detection
Floor control is a scheme used by people to organize speaking turns in multi-party conversations. Identifying the floor control shifts is important for understanding a conversati...
Lei Chen 0004, Mary P. Harper
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Grounding spatial prepositions for video search
Spatial language video retrieval is an important real-world problem that forms a test bed for evaluating semantic structures for natural language descriptions of motion on natural...
Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy
ICMI
2009
Springer
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A multimedia retrieval system using speech input
The AMIDA Automatic Content Linking Device (ACLD) monitors a conversation using automatic speech recognition (ASR), and uses the detected words to retrieve documents that are of p...
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Peter Poller, Jonathan Kilgo...
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Speaker change detection with privacy-preserving audio cues
In this paper we investigate a set of privacy-sensitive audio features for speaker change detection (SCD) in multiparty conversations. These features are based on three different...
Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Mathew Magimai-D...
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Activity-aware ECG-based patient authentication for remote health monitoring
Mobile medical sensors promise to provide an efficient, accurate, and economic way to monitor patients’ health outside the hospital. Patient authentication is a necessary secur...
Janani C. Sriram, Minho Shin, Tanzeem Choudhury, D...