Towards automated full body detection of laughter driven by human expert annotation

Proceedings - 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 757-762

  Mancini, Maurizio ^a   Hofmann, Jennifer ^b   Platt, Tracey ^b   Volpe, Gualtiero ^a   Varni, Giovanna ^a   Glowinski, Donald ^a   Ruch, Willibald ^b   Camurri, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Psychologisches Institut   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analysis; Annotation; Automated; Body; Expressive; Features; Laughter

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ANNOTATION; AUTOMATED; BODY; EXPRESSIVE; FEATURES; LAUGHTER;

AUTOMATION;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84893216621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACII.2013.140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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