Automated analysis of human affective behavior has attracted increasing attention from
researchers in psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and related …

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with
is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has …

In this book common sense computing techniques are further developed and applied to
bridge the semantic gap between word-level natural language data and the concept-level …

The opinion mining and human-agent interaction communities are currently addressing
sentiment analysis from different perspectives that comprise, on the one hand, disparate …

An increasing awareness of the scientific and technological value of the automatic
understanding of face-to-face social interaction has motivated in the past few years a surge …

The field of automatic speech recognition (ASR) is discussed from the viewpoint of pattern
recognition (PR). This tutorial examines the problem area, its methods, successes and …

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:▶ Characterization of emotions based on the acoustical and
prosodic features.▶ Emotional groups are founded in an unsupervised way (SOM) and …

Like most human non-verbal vocalizations, laughter is produced by speakers of all
languages, across all known societies. But despite this obvious fact (or perhaps because of …

Laughter is clearly an audiovisual event, consisting of the laughter vocalization and of facial
activity, mainly around the mouth and sometimes in the upper face. A major obstacle in …

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with
is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has …