Ambient intelligence is an emerging discipline that brings intelligence to our everyday
environments and makes those environments sensitive to us. Ambient intelligence (AmI) …

An increasing awareness of the scientific and technological value of the automatic
understanding of face-to-face social interaction has motivated in the past few years a surge …

Podcasts are a large and growing repository of spoken audio. As an audio format, podcasts
are more varied in style and production type than broadcast news, contain more genres than …

Social Signal Processing is the research domain aimed at bridging the social intelligence
gap between humans and machines. This paper is the first survey of the domain that jointly …

The AMI and AMIDA projects are concerned with the recognition and interpretation of
multiparty meetings. Within these projects we have: developed an infrastructure for …

Microphones and cameras have been extensively used to observe and detect human
activity and to facilitate natural modes of interaction between humans and intelligent …

Current methodologies in corpus linguistics have revolutionized the way we look at
language. They allow us to make objective observations about written and spoken …

With the ubiquitous use of online meeting platforms and robust automatic speech
recognition systems, meeting transcripts have emerged as a promising domain for natural …

In this paper, we give an overview of the AMIDA systems for transcription of conference and
lecture room meetings. The systems were developed for participation in the Rich …

In this paper we present a multimodal analysis of emergent leadership in small groups using
audio-visual features and discuss our experience in designing and collecting a data corpus …