Man is by nature a social animal. One important facet of human evolution is through
narrative imagination, be it fictional or factual, and to tell the tale to other individuals. The …

Automated co-located human–human interaction analysis has been addressed by the use of
nonverbal communication as measurable evidence of social and psychological phenomena …

Studying free-standing conversational groups (FCGs) in unstructured social settings (eg,
cocktail party) is gratifying due to the wealth of information available at the group (mining …

Detection of groups of interacting people is a very interesting and useful task in many
modern technologies, with application fields spanning from video-surveillance to social …

In computer vision and multimedia analysis, it is common to use multiple features (or
multimodal features) to represent an object. For example, to well characterize a natural …

We present a novel approach for jointly estimating tar-gets' head, body orientations and
conversational groups called F-formations from a distant social scene (eg, a cocktail party …

Hashtags, a user provides to a micro-video, are the ones which can well describe the
semantics of the micro-video's content in his/her mind. At the same time, hashtags have …

Detecting groups is becoming of relevant interest as an important step for scene (and
especially activity) understanding. Differently from what is commonly assumed in the …

We propose a data-driven approach to detect conversational groups by identifying spatial
arrangements typical of these focused social encounters. Our approach uses a novel Deep …

Appropriate robot behavior in public, open spaces cannot occur without the ability to
automatically detect conversational groups of free-standing people. To this end, we propose …