Bodily behaviors in social interaction: Novel annotations and state-of-the-art evaluation

M Balazia, P Müller, ÁL Tánczos… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Body language is an eye-catching social signal and its automatic analysis can significantly
advance artificial intelligence systems to understand and actively participate in social …

MultiMediate'22: Backchannel Detection and Agreement Estimation in Group Interactions

P Müller, M Dietz, D Schiller, D Thomas… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Backchannels, ie short interjections of the listener, serve important meta-conversational
purposes like signifying attention or indicating agreement. Despite their key role, automatic …

MultiMediate'23: Engagement Estimation and Bodily Behaviour Recognition in Social Interactions

P Müller, M Balazia, T Baur, M Dietz, A Heimerl… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Automatic analysis of human behaviour is a fundamental prerequisite for the creation of
machines that can effectively interact with-and support humans in social interactions. In …

Graph-based group modelling for backchannel detection

G Sharma, K Stefanov, A Dhall, J Cai - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The brief responses given by listeners in group conversations are known as backchannels
rendering the task of backchannel detection an essential facet of group interaction analysis …

Gaze-enhanced crossmodal embeddings for emotion recognition

A Abdou, E Sood, P Müller, A Bulling - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Emotional expressions are inherently multimodal--integrating facial behavior, speech, and
gaze--but their automatic recognition is often limited to a single modality, eg speech during a …

Using motion histories for eye contact detection in multiperson group conversations

EY Fu, MW Ngai - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Eye contact detection in group conversations is the key to developing artificial mediators that
can understand and interact with a group. In this paper, we propose to model a group's …

Data Augmentation for Human Behavior Analysis in Multi-Person Conversations

K Li, D Guo, G Chen, F Liu, M Wang - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present the solution of our team HFUT-VUT for the MultiMediate Grand
Challenge 2023 at ACM Multimedia 2023. The solution covers three sub-challenges: bodily …

Backchannel Detection and Agreement Estimation from Video with Transformer Networks

A Amer, C Bhuvaneshwara, GK Addluri… - … Joint Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Listeners use short interjections, so-called backchannels, to signify attention or express
agreement. The automatic analysis of this behavior is of key importance for human …

Group-level focus of visual attention for improved next speaker prediction

C Birmingham, K Stefanov, MJ Mataric - Proceedings of the 29th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this work we address the Next Speaker Prediction sub challenge of the ACM'21
MultiMediate Grand Challenge. This challenge poses the problem of turn taking prediction in …

TA-CNN: A Unified Network for Human Behavior Analysis in Multi-Person Conversations

F Ma, Z Ma, B Sun, S Li - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Human behavior analysis in multi-person conversations has been one of the most important
research issues for natural human-robot interaction. However, previous datasets and studies …