Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
In this paper we present our work toward the creation of a multimodal expressive Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA). Our agent, called Greta, exhibits nonverbal behaviors synchro...
As robots enter the human environment and come in contact with inexperienced users, they need to be able to interact with users in a multi-modal fashion—keyboard and mouse are n...
Soshi Iba, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Pradeep K. Kh...
This paper introduces the Multimodal Multi-view Integrated Database (MMID), which holds human activities in presentation situations. MMID contains audio, video, human body motions...
Yuichi Nakamura, Yoshifumi Kimura, Y. Yu, Yuichi O...
There has been little work that attempts to improve the recognition of spontaneous, conversational speech by adding information from a loosely-coupled modality. This study investi...