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20152026
most citedStarting engagement detection towards a companion robot using multimodal features

62 citations · 132 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CV2026

Calibration-Free 3D Multi-Camera People Tracking for Indoor Environment

Ponleur Veng, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Phutphalla Kong

Multi-Camera People Tracking (MCPT) traditionally relies on precise intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration to project 2D detections into a unified 3D world coordinate system.Ho…

cs.HC2026

''I don't want to break it'': An Exploration of Perceived Fragility in Shape-Changing Interfaces

Eva Mackamul, Tom Maillard, Noé Marceaul +6

Shape-Changing Interfaces (SCIs) dynamically alter their form, an inherent characteristic that introduces fragility into their design. As a result, users' perceptions of an interfa…

cs.GR2023

A Comprehensive Multi-scale Approach for Speech and Dynamics Synchrony in Talking Head Generation

Louis Airale, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Animating still face images with deep generative models using a speech input signal is an active research topic and has seen important recent progress.However, much of the effort h…

eess.AS2022

Preliminary Study on SSCF-derived Polar Coordinate for ASR

Sotheara Leang, Eric Castelli, Dominique Vaufreydaz +1

The transition angles are defined to describe the vowel-to-vowel transitions in the acoustic space of the Spectral Subband Centroids, and the findings show that they are similar am…

cs.CV2022

Autoregressive GAN for Semantic Unconditional Head Motion Generation

Louis Airale, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Stéphane Lathuilière +1

In this work, we address the task of unconditional head motion generation to animate still human faces in a low-dimensional semantic space from a single reference pose. Different f…

cs.CV2022

TokenCut: Segmenting Objects in Images and Videos with Self-supervised Transformer and Normalized Cut

Yangtao Wang, Xi Shen, Yuan Yuan +5

In this paper, we describe a graph-based algorithm that uses the features obtained by a self-supervised transformer to detect and segment salient objects in images and videos. With…

cs.CV2022

Self-Supervised Transformers for Unsupervised Object Discovery using Normalized Cut

Yangtao Wang, Xi Shen, Shell Hu +3

Transformers trained with self-supervised learning using self-distillation loss (DINO) have been shown to produce attention maps that highlight salient foreground objects. In this…

cs.RO2021★ 10 cited

Navigation In Urban Environments Amongst Pedestrians Using Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning

Niranjan Deshpande, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Anne Spalanzani

Urban autonomous driving in the presence of pedestrians as vulnerable road users is still a challenging and less examined research problem. This work formulates navigation in urban…

cs.NE2021★ 6 cited

SocialInteractionGAN: Multi-person Interaction Sequence Generation

Louis Airale, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Prediction of human actions in social interactions has important applications in the design of social robots or artificial avatars. In this paper, we focus on a unimodal representa…

cs.NE2020★ 23 cited

Behavioral decision-making for urban autonomous driving in the presence of pedestrians using Deep Recurrent Q-Network

Niranjan Deshpande, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Anne Spalanzani

Decision making for autonomous driving in urban environments is challenging due to the complexity of the road structure and the uncertainty in the behavior of diverse road users. T…

cs.CV2020

Group-Level Emotion Recognition Using a Unimodal Privacy-Safe Non-Individual Approach

Anastasia Petrova, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Philippe Dessus

This article presents our unimodal privacy-safe and non-individual proposal for the audio-video group emotion recognition subtask at the Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) Ch…

stat.ML2019★ 17 cited

Deep learning investigation for chess player attention prediction using eye-tracking and game data

Justin Le Louedec, Thomas Guntz, James Crowley +1

This article reports on an investigation of the use of convolutional neural networks to predict the visual attention of chess players. The visual attention model described in this…

cs.HC2018★ 2 cited

The Role of Emotion in Problem Solving: First Results from Observing Chess

Thomas Guntz, James Crowley, Dominique Vaufreydaz +2

In this paper we present results from recent experiments that suggest that chess players associate emotions to game situations and reactively use these associations to guide search…

stat.ML2018

Building Prior Knowledge: A Markov Based Pedestrian Prediction Model Using Urban Environmental Data

Pavan Vasishta, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Anne Spalanzani

Autonomous Vehicles navigating in urban areas have a need to understand and predict future pedestrian behavior for safer navigation. This high level of situational awareness requir…

eess.SP2018

Smartphone-based user positioning in a multiple-user context with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

Viet-Cuong Ta, Trung-Kien Dao, Dominique Vaufreydaz +1

In a multiuser context, the Bluetooth data from the smartphone could give an approximation of the distance between users. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi data can be used to calculate the use…

cs.HC2018★ 12 cited

Personal space of autonomous car's passengers sitting in the driver's seat

Eleonore Ferrier-Barbut, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Jean-Alix David +2

This article deals with the specific context of an autonomous car navigating in an urban center within a shared space between pedestrians and cars. The driver delegates the control…

cs.HC2017

Multimodal Observation and Interpretation of Subjects Engaged in Problem Solving

Thomas Guntz, Raffaella Balzarini, Dominique Vaufreydaz +1

In this paper we present the first results of a pilot experiment in the capture and interpretation of multimodal signals of human experts engaged in solving challenging chess probl…

cs.RO2015★ 62 cited

Starting engagement detection towards a companion robot using multimodal features

Dominique Vaufreydaz, Wafa Johal, Claudine Combe

Recognition of intentions is a subconscious cognitive process vital to human communication. This skill enables anticipation and increases the quality of interactions between humans…