Automatic facial expression recognition is essential for many potential applications. Thus,
having a clear overview on existing datasets that have been investigated within the …

Laughter is clearly an audiovisual event, consisting of the laughter vocalization and of facial
activity, mainly around the mouth and sometimes in the upper face. A major obstacle in …

Recently, the debate about what kind of speech data is most appropriate for linguistic
research has intensified. Generally, with 'laboratory speech'defenders on the one hand and …

Studies of laughter are spread over multiple scientific disciplines of which many have
nothing or nearly nothing in common: from conversational analysis and interactional …

When analysing human spoken communication the focus on the linguistic side lies on
speech with its verbal message, whereas the focus on the non-linguistic side usually is on …

Laughter is an important communicative signal in humanhuman communication. However,
very few attempts have been made to model laughter animation synthesis for virtual …

In this paper we present a complete interactive system enabled to detect human laughs and
respond appropriately, by integrating the information of the human behavior and the context …

Although laughter research has gained quite some interest over the past few years, a shared
description of how to annotate laughter and its sub-units is still missing. We present a first …

A growing number of pervasive systems integrate emotion recognition capabilities with the
aim of fostering and promoting human health and wellbeing. In this paper, we argue that …

The AVLaughterCycle project aims at develo** an audiovisual laughing machine, able to
detect and respond to user's laughs. Laughter is an important cue to reinforce the …