8 papers
MultiMediate'24: Multi-Domain Engagement Estimation
Philipp Müller, Michal Balazia, Tobias Baur +8
Estimating the momentary level of participant's engagement is an important prerequisite for assistive systems that support human interactions. Previous work has addressed this task…
VoiceX: A Text-To-Speech Framework for Custom Voices
Silvan Mertes, Daksitha Withanage Don, Otto Grothe +3
Modern TTS systems are capable of creating highly realistic and natural-sounding speech. Despite these developments, the process of customizing TTS voices remains a complex task, m…
Recognizing Emotion Regulation Strategies from Human Behavior with Large Language Models
Philipp Müller, Alexander Heimerl, Sayed Muddashir Hossain +5
Human emotions are often not expressed directly, but regulated according to internal processes and social display rules. For affective computing systems, an understanding of how us…
DISCOVER: A Data-driven Interactive System for Comprehensive Observation, Visualization, and ExploRation of Human Behaviour
Dominik Schiller, Tobias Hallmen, Daksitha Withanage Don +2
Understanding human behavior is a fundamental goal of social sciences, yet its analysis presents significant challenges. Conventional methodologies employed for the study of behavi…
Socially Interactive Agents for Robotic Neurorehabilitation Training: Conceptualization and Proof-of-concept Study
Rhythm Arora, Pooja Prajod, Matteo Lavit Nicora +6
Individuals with diverse motor abilities often benefit from intensive and specialized rehabilitation therapies aimed at enhancing their functional recovery. Nevertheless, the chall…
Faces of Experimental Pain: Transferability of Deep Learned Heat Pain Features to Electrical Pain
Pooja Prajod, Dominik Schiller, Daksitha Withanage Don +1
The limited size of pain datasets are a challenge in developing robust deep learning models for pain recognition. Transfer learning approaches are often employed in these scenarios…