Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction COST Action 2102 International Conference, Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007. Revised Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Esposito, Anna (Editor), Bourbakis, Nikolaos G. (Editor), Avouris, Nikolaos (Editor), Hatzilygeroudis, Ioannis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5042
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Biometrics (Biology).; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Graphics.; Pattern Recognition.; Biometrics.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the COST 2102 International Conference on Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction, held in Patras, Greece, October 29 -31, 2007 The 21 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organiz...

Table of Contents:

• - Static and Dynamic Processing of Faces, Facial Expressions, and Gaze
• Data Mining Spontaneous Facial Behavior with Automatic Expression Coding
• Ekfrasis: A Formal Language for Representing and Generating Sequences of Facial Patterns for Studying Emotional Behavior
• On the Relevance of Facial Expressions for Biometric Recognition
• Biometric Face Recognition with Different Training and Testing Databases
• Combining Features for Recognizing Emotional Facial Expressions in Static Images
• Mutually Coordinated Anticipatory Multimodal Interaction
• Affordances and Cognitive Walkthrough for Analyzing Human-Virtual Human Interaction
• - Emotional Speech Synthesis and Recognition: Applications to Telecommunication Systems
• Individual Traits of Speaking Style and Speech Rhythm in a Spoken Discourse
• The Organization of a Neurocomputational Control Model for Articulatory Speech Synthesis
• Automatic Speech Recognition Used for Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems
• ECESS Platform for Web Based TTS Modules and Systems Evaluation
• Towards Slovak Broadcast News Automatic Recording and Transcribing Service
• Computational Stylometry: Who’s in a Play?
• The Acoustic Front-End in Scenarios of Interaction Research
• Application of Expressive Speech in TTS System with Cepstral Description
• Speech Emotion Perception by Human and Machine
• Expressive Speech Synthesis Using Emotion-Specific Speech Inventories
• Study on Speaker-Independent Emotion Recognition from Speech on Real-World Data
• Exploiting a Vowel Based Approach for Acted Emotion Recognition
• Towards Annotation of Nonverbal Vocal Gestures in Slovak
• The CineLingua Approach: Verbal and Non-verbal Features in Second Language Acquisition. Film Narrative to Anchor Comprehension and Production.