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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Facial Actions using Lifecycle-Aware Capsule Networks
Nikhil Churamani, Sinan Kalkan, Hatice Gunes
Most state-of-the-art approaches for Facial Action Unit (AU) detection rely upon evaluating facial expressions from static frames, encoding a snapshot of heightened facial activity…
Affect-Driven Modelling of Robot Personality for Collaborative Human-Robot Interactions
Nikhil Churamani, Pablo Barros, Hatice Gunes +1
Collaborative interactions require social robots to adapt to the dynamics of human affective behaviour. Yet, current approaches for affective behaviour generation in robots focus o…
Investigating Bias and Fairness in Facial Expression Recognition
Tian Xu, Jennifer White, Sinan Kalkan +1
Recognition of expressions of emotions and affect from facial images is a well-studied research problem in the fields of affective computing and computer vision with a large number…
Mind Your Manners! A Dataset and A Continual Learning Approach for Assessing Social Appropriateness of Robot Actions
Jonas Tjomsland, Sinan Kalkan, Hatice Gunes
To date, endowing robots with an ability to assess social appropriateness of their actions has not been possible. This has been mainly due to (i) the lack of relevant and labelled…
Creating a Robot Coach for Mindfulness and Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study
Indu P. Bodala, Nikhil Churamani, Hatice Gunes
Social robots are starting to become incorporated into daily lives by assisting in the promotion of physical and mental wellbeing. This paper investigates the use of social robots…
Facial Electromyography-based Adaptive Virtual Reality Gaming for Cognitive Training
Lorcan Reidy, Dennis Chan, Charles Nduka +1
Cognitive training has shown promising results for delivering improvements in human cognition related to attention, problem solving, reading comprehension and information retrieval…