Multimodal analysis of laughter for an interactive system

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Volumn 124 LNICST, Issue , 2013, Pages 183-192

  Urbain, Jérôme ^a   Niewiadomski, Radoslaw ^b   Mancini, Maurizio ^c   Griffin, Harry ^d   Çakmak, Hüseyin ^a   Ach, Laurent ^e   Volpe, Gualtiero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e La Cantoche   (France)

Author keywords

Analysis; Laughter; Multimodal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYSIS; BODY MOVEMENTS; GENERAL ARCHITECTURES; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; LAUGHTER; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC CIRCUMFERENCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84901030466     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03892-6_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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