Recognising realistic emotions and affect in speech: State of the art and lessons learnt from the first challenge

B Schuller, A Batliner, S Steidl, D Seppi - Speech communication, 2011 - Elsevier
More than a decade has passed since research on automatic recognition of emotion from
speech has become a new field of research in line with its 'big brothers' speech and speaker …

Modelling multimodal expression of emotion in a virtual agent

C Pelachaud - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past few years we have been develo** an expressive embodied conversational
agent system. In particular, we have developed a model of multimodal behaviours that …

A framework for automatic human emotion classification using emotion profiles

E Mower, MJ Matarić… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic recognition of emotion is becoming an increasingly important component in the
design process for affect-sensitive human-machine interaction (HMI) systems. Well …

A conversational agent framework with multi-modal personality expression

S Sonlu, U Güdükbay, F Durupinar - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Consistently exhibited personalities are crucial elements of realistic, engaging, and behavior-
rich conversational virtual agents. Both nonverbal and verbal cues help convey these …

Gesture modeling and animation based on a probabilistic re-creation of speaker style

M Neff, M Kipp, I Albrecht, HP Seidel - ACM Transactions On Graphics …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Animated characters that move and gesticulate appropriately with spoken text are useful in a
wide range of applications. Unfortunately, this class of movement is very difficult to generate …

Automatic temporal segment detection and affect recognition from face and body display

H Gunes, M Piccardi - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Psychologists have long explored mechanisms with which humans recognize other humans'
affective states from modalities, such as voice and face display. This exploration has led to …

Studies on gesture expressivity for a virtual agent

C Pelachaud - Speech Communication, 2009 - Elsevier
Our aim is to create an affective embodied conversational agent (ECA); that is an ECA able
to display communicative and emotional signals. Nonverbal communication is done through …

Social functions of machine emotional expressions

CM de Melo, J Gratch, S Marsella… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual humans and social robots frequently generate behaviors that human observers
naturally see as expressing emotion. In this review article, we highlight that these …

An annotation scheme for conversational gestures: how to economically capture timing and form

M Kipp, M Neff, I Albrecht - Language Resources and Evaluation, 2007 - Springer
The empirical investigation of human gesture stands at the center of multiple research
disciplines, and various gesture annotation schemes exist, with varying degrees of precision …

Expression of affect in spontaneous speech: Acoustic correlates and automatic detection of irritation and resignation

P Laukka, D Neiberg, M Forsell, I Karlsson… - Computer Speech & …, 2011 - Elsevier
The majority of previous studies on vocal expression have been conducted on posed
expressions. In contrast, we utilized a large corpus of authentic affective speech recorded …