2 papers
cs.AI2019
Batch Recurrent Q-Learning for Backchannel Generation Towards Engaging Agents
Nusrah Hussain, Engin Erzin, T. Metin Sezgin +1
The ability to generate appropriate verbal and non-verbal backchannels by an agent during human-robot interaction greatly enhances the interaction experience. Backchannels are part…
cs.AI2019
Speech Driven Backchannel Generation using Deep Q-Network for Enhancing Engagement in Human-Robot Interaction
Nusrah Hussain, Engin Erzin, T. Metin Sezgin +1
We present a novel method for training a social robot to generate backchannels during human-robot interaction. We address the problem within an off-policy reinforcement learning fr…