ICMCS
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
TOG
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We present a novel technique for generating animation of laughter for a character. Our approach utilizes an anatomically inspired, physics-based model of a human torso that includ...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
In this study, a system that discriminates laughter from speech by modelling the relationship between audio and visual features is presented. The underlying assumption is that thi...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
Browsing through collections of audio recordings of conversation nominally relies on the processing of participants’ lexical productions. The evolving verbal and non-verbal cont...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Laughter is an intrinsic component of human-human interaction, and current automatic speech understanding paradigms stand to gain significantly from its detection and modeling. In...
LREC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This paper presents the large audiovisual laughter database recorded as part of the AVLaughterCycle project held during the eNTERFACE'09 Workshop in Genova. 24 subjects parti...
ADS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Laughter is a powerful means of emotion expression which has not yet been used in speech synthesis. The current paper reports on a pilot study in which differently created types of...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
2009
IEEE
Contrasting emotion-bearing laughter types in multiparticipant vocal activity detection for meetings
13 years 11 months ago
The detection of laughter in conversational interaction presents an important challenge in meeting understanding, important primarily because laughter is predictive of the emotion...