Automatic inference of interaction occasion in multiparty meetings: Spontaneous or reactive

Zhiwen Yu, Xingshe Zhou

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an automatic multimodal approach for inferring interaction occasions (spontaneous or reactive) in multiparty meetings. A variety of features such as head gesture, attention from others, attention towards others, speech tone, speaking time, and lexical cue are integrated. A support vector machines classifier is used to classify interaction occasions based on these features. Our experimental results verified that the proposed approach was really effective, which successfully inferred the occasions of human interactions with a recognition rate by number of 0.870, an accuracy by time of 0.773, and a class average accuracy of 0.812. We also found that the reactive interactions are easier to recognize than the spontaneous ones, and the lexical cue is very important in detecting spontaneous interactions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Human-Centric Computing 2011 and Embedded and Multimedia Computing 2011, HumanCom and EMC 2011
Pages125-134
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event4th International Conference on Human-Centric Computing, HumanCom'11 and the 6th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing, EMC'11 - Enshi, China
Duration: 11 Aug 201113 Aug 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume102 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Human-Centric Computing, HumanCom'11 and the 6th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing, EMC'11
Country/TerritoryChina
CityEnshi
Period11/08/1113/08/11

Keywords

  • Interaction occasion
  • Multimodal recognition
  • Multiparty meeting

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