What's your laughter doing there? a taxonomy of the pragmatic functions of laughter

C Mazzocconi, Y Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Laughter is a crucial signal for communication and managing interactions. Until now no
consensual approach has emerged for classifying laughter. We propose a new framework …

Realistic transformation of facial and vocal smiles in real-time audiovisual streams

P Arias, C Soladie, O Bouafif, A Roebel… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research in affective computing and cognitive science has shown the importance of
emotional facial and vocal expressions during human-computer and human-human …

Towards a listening agent: a system generating audiovisual laughs and smiles to show interest

K El Haddad, H Çakmak, E Gilmartin… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we experiment with the use of smiling and laughter in order to help create more
natural and efficient listening agents. We present preliminary results on a system which …

Laughter synthesis: A comparison between Variational autoencoder and Autoencoder

N Mansouri, Z Lachiri - … for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Laughter is one of the most famous non verbal sounds that human produce since birth, it
conveys messages about our emotional state. These characteristics make it an important …

Laughter in interaction: semantics, pragmatics, and child development

C Mazzocconi - 2019 - theses.hal.science
Laughter is a social vocalization universal across cultures and languages. It is ubiquitous in
our dialogues and able to serve a wide range of functions. Laughter has been studied from …

[PDF][PDF] How do you make an AI get the joke? Here's what I found on the web'

V Maraev, E Breitholtz, C Howes - First AISB Symposium on …, 2020 - christinehowes.com
Humour in interaction relies on general and domain-specific knowledge and can be
formalised in terms of defeasible reasoning instances and types, ie enthymemes and topoi …

[PDF][PDF] Face Smile Detection and Cavernous Biometric Prediction using Perceptual User Interfaces (PUIs)

H Ansaf, S Hussain, H Najm, O Hassen - 2021 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Face identification and biometric analytics is a modern domain of study and enormous
algorithms in this aspect. Perceptual interface can be described as: highly immersive, multi …

Human laughter generation using hybrid generative models

N Mansouri, Z Lachiri - … on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS), 2021 - koreascience.kr
Laughter is one of the most important nonverbal sound that human generates. It is a means
for expressing his emotions. The acoustic and contextual features of this specific sound are …

DNN-based laughter synthesis

N Mansouri, Z Lachiri - 2019 International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Just like speech is part of our daily life, non verbal sounds are the same. Until nowadays
speech has been taken into consideration by the most of researchers, whose based their …

[PDF][PDF] A Novel Realizer of Conversational Behavior for Affective and Personalized Human Machine Interaction—EVA U-Realizer

I Mlakar, Z Kačič, M Borko, M Rojc - WSEAS Trans. Environ. Dev, 2018 - academia.edu
In order to engage with user on more personal level, natural human-machine interaction is
starting to virtual or even physical entities resembling human collocutors. Namely, through …