PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME, TIMETABLE AND ORGANIZATION

 

1st day -April 22 2008

morning

8:00- 9:00 REGISTRATION

CHAIR: ANNA ESPOSITO

9:00 - 9:30 Welcome by the local authorities

Professor Raffaele Martone,  Second University of Naples

Professor Maria Marinaro, IIASS,

 

9:30 – 10:30 Alex Pentland: Honest Signals I

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

CHAIR: BERND KRÖGER

11:00 - 12:00 Eric Keller: Fundamental Concepts of Voice Analysis

12:00 - 13:00 Marion Dohen: Multimodal perception of speech segments and speech prosody in  relationship with their production;

 

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

CHAIR: NICK CAMPBELL

14:30 – 15:30 Wolfgang Tschacher: Embodied cognition entails embodied communication

15:30 – 16:30 Alex Pentland Honest Signals II

 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

CHAIR: ISABELLA POGGI

17:00 – 17:45 Marion Dohen: Coordination of Mouth and Hand Actions in Speech Communication

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

17:45 -18:00 Murhy Peter: Glottal Characteristics of Emotion Based on Electroglottogram Measures

18:00 -18:15 Karpiński Maciej: From Sounds and Gestures to Dialogue Acts. Selected Problems of a Multimodal Corpus Labelling

18:15 -18:30 Heylen Dirk: Presence Agents: Physical and Virtual Agents with Interaction Behavior that Supports Being There

18:30 -18:45 Ter Maat Mark: Differentiating Communicative Signals using Context

 

2nd day - April 23 2008

morning

CHAIR: KARPIŃSKI MACIEJ

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

8:30 – 8:45 Neubarth Friedrich & Kranzler Christian: A Distributional Concept for Modeling Dialectal Variation in TTS

8:45 - 9:00 Reidsma Dennis: Annotation Reliability and Machine Learning Performance

9:00 - 9:15 Demir Yasemin, Engin Erzin and Murat Tekalp:  Multimodal Signal Processing for Dance Performance Analysis

9:15 - 9:30 Georgescu Alexandru & Alina Lascu: Exploiting Protensity of Musical Messages

INVITED TALK

9:30 – 10:30 Uli Sauerland and Mathias Schenner: Content in Embedded Sentences: An Overview I

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

 

CHAIR: ROBERT VICH

11:00 – 12:00 Bencie Woll: Exploring Sign Language I

12:00 – 13:00 Isabella Poggi: Gesture and gaze in persuasive discorse I

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

CHAIR: ERIC KELLER

14:30 – 15:30 Uli Sauerland and Mathias Schenner: Content in Embedded Sentences: An Overview II

15:30 - 16:30 Sue Duncan et al.: Gesturing compared across cultures and contexts: Some implications for language theory I

 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

 

CHAIR: MOHAMED CHETOUANI

17:00 - 18:00 Matthias Wimmer: Facial Expression Recognition Implemented with Model-based Image Interpretation I

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

18:00 – 18:15  Costen Nick: Temporal integration in computer face and movement recognition

18:15 – 18:30  Reyes-Garcia Carlos: Qualitative and quantitative crying analysis of new born babies delivered after high risk gestation

18:30 – 18:45 Abel Andrew & Amir Hussain: Multi-modal speech processing methods: An overview and possible future directions using a MATLAB based Audio-visual Toolbox

 

 

 

3rd day - April 24 2008

morning

CHAIR: BENCIE WOLL

8:30 – 9:30 Anna Esposito: Affect in Multimodal Information

9:30 - 10:30 Nick Campbell: It Takes Two to Discourse: Technology and Techniques for Interactive Speech Processing;

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

 

CHAIR: WOLFGANG TSCHACHER

11:00 – 12:00 Adam Kendon:  The structure of gestural performance in extended discourse:  Some illustrative examples I

12:00 – 12:30 Michael Pucher: Regionalized Text-to-Speech Systems: Persona Design and Application Scenarios

12:30 – 13:00 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy: Data Fusion at Different Level;

 

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

CHAIR: MARION DOHEN

14:30 – 15:30 Gerard Chollet et al: Multimodal HMI in Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications

15:30 – 16:30 Bencie Woll: Exploring Sign Language II

 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

 

 

17:00 – 19:00

 

COST 2102 Management Committee Members Meeting

NON-COST 2102 Members and Students are not requested to join the meeting

 

 

 

20:00 Social Dinner

 

4th  day - April 25 2008

 

CHAIR: MATTHIAS WIMMER

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

8:30 - 8:45: Mahdhaoui Ammar & Mohamed Chetouani: Home movies segmentation for face-to-face interaction analysis

8:45 - 9:00 Lascu Alina & Georgescu Alexandru: From Extensity to Protensity in CAS: Adding Sounds to Icons

9:00 - 9:15 Ruttkay Zsófia: Cultural Dialects of Real and Synthetic Facial Expressions

9:15 - 9:30 Mirilovič Michal, Jozef Juhár & Anton Čižmár: Comparison of grapheme and phoneme based acoustic modelling in LVCSR task in Slovak

INVITED TALKS

9:30 -10:30 Caterine Pelachaud: Behavior parametrization for embodied conversational agents

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

CHAIR: MICHAEL PUCHER

11:00 - 12:00 Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson: Representing Function and Behavior in Multimodal Communication

12:00 - 13:00 Sue Duncan et al.: Gesturing compared across cultures and contexts: Some implications for language theory II

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break

CHAIR: HANNES HÖGNI VILHJÁLMSSON

14:30-15:30 Bernd Kröger: Perspectives for Articulatory Speech Synthesis within the Framework of Audio-Visual Human-Machine Interaction Systems I

15:30 -16:30  Isabella Poggi: Gesture and gaze in persuasive discorse  II

 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

CHAIR: GERARD CHOLLET

17:00 – 18:00 Kristinn Thórisson: Realtime Multimodal Turntaking

 

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

18:00 - 18:15 Chetouani Mohamed & Fabien Rigenval:  A Pseudo-phonetic Approach for Speech Characterisation of Autistic

18:15 – 18:30 Vincze Laura: The Impact of Gesture and Gaze in the Persuasive Political Discourse

18:30 – 18:45 Nelson Delroy: Using a signing avatar as a sign language research tool

 

5th day - April 26 2008

CHAIR: Přibilová Anna

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

8:30 - 8:45 Zoric Goranka: Facial Gestures Generation by Speech Signal Analysis using HUGE Architecture

8:45 - 9:00 Přibilová Anna: Spectrum Modification for Emotional Speech Synthesis

9:00 - 9:15 Vicsi Klara, Tóth Szabolcs Levente & Sztaho David: Optimalization of the Automatic Emotion Recognition of Speech in case of Some Languages

9:15 - 9:30 Lalev Emilian: Social Phenomena Related to Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma

9:30 – 9:45 Op Den Akker: The Computability of Human Interaction

9:45 – 10:00 Pirker Hannes: Get a Grip on the Phone(me): The Application of Phonetic Segmentation in Multimodal Emotional Data

10:00 – 10:15 Vondra Martin & Robert Vích: Recognition of Emotions in Czech Speech Using Gaussian Mixture Model

10:15 – 10:30 Malatesta Lori: Situated Non-verbal expressivity synthesis

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

CHAIR: COSTEN NICK

11:00 – 11:15 Koutsombogera Maria: Multimodality Issues in Conversation Analysis of Greek TV Interviews

11:15 – 11:30 Hempel René & Patrick Westfeld: Statistical Modeling of Interpersonal Distance with Range Imaging Data

11:30 – 11:45 Kostoulas Theodoros, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis: Study on speech parameterization for emotion recognition

11:45 – 12:00 González Domínguez Verónica: Eye detection from facial images

12:00 - 12:15 Cermak Jan & Smekal Zdenek: Underdetermined blind source separation by linear separation system.

12:15 - 12:30 Maskeliunas Rytis:  Multimodal human - machine interface modeling

12:30 - 12:45 Punys Jonas,  Jurate Puniene, and Vytautas Rudzionis: Modelling of lips for the main vowels of the Lithuanian language

12:45 - 13:00 Atassi Hicham: Acoustic  Features of Emotional States

13:00  -13:30 CONCLUSIONS

 

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