Publications by Alessandro Vinciarelli

Klewel Webcast: from Research to Growing Company

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Jean-Marc Odobez, Sandy Ingram

The main motivations behind the webcasting company, Klewel, were to go beyond text-based conference proceedings to offer a user-friendly way to browse and replay presentations, access slides, and search for specific information within a recording. As the p ...

2015

A Survey on Perceived Speaker Traits: Personality, Likability, Pathology and the First Challenge

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gelareh Mohammadi, Félix Burkhardt

The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge aimed at a unified test-bed for perceived speaker traits – the first challenge of this kind: personality in the five OCEAN personality dimensions, likability of speakers, and intelligibility of pathologic speake ...

Elsevier2015

A Survey of Personality Computing

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gelareh Mohammadi

Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect, any technology involving understanding, prediction and synthesis of human ...

2014

Who is Persuasive? The Role of Perceived Personality and Communication Modality in Social Multimedia

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gelareh Mohammadi

2013

The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gelareh Mohammadi

2012

Conversation Analysis at Work: Detection of Conflict in Competitive Discussions through Automatic Turn-Organization Analysis

Alessandro Vinciarelli

This study proposes a semi-automatic approach aimed at detecting conflict in conversations. The approach is based on statistical techniques capable of identifying turn-organization regularities associated with conflict. The only manual step of the process ...

2012

Bridging the Gap Between Social Animal and Unsocial Machine: A Survey of Social Signal Processing

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Social Signal Processing is the research domain aimed at bridging the social intelligence gap between humans and machines. This paper is the first survey of the domain that jointly considers its three major aspects, namely, modeling, analysis, and synthesi ...

2012

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Conversations: an Approach Based on Turn Organization, Prosody and Conditional Random Fields

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Roles are a key aspect of social interactions, as they contribute to the overall predictability of social behavior (a necessary requirement to deal effectively with the people around us), and they result in stable, possibly machine-detectable behavioral pa ...

2012

Automatic Personality Perception: Prediction of Trait Attribution Based on Prosodic Features

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gelareh Mohammadi

2012

Automatic Personality Perception: Prediction of Trait Attribution Based on Prosodic Features

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gelareh Mohammadi

Whenever we listen to a voice for the first time, we attribute personality traits to the speaker. The process takes place in a few seconds and it is spontaneous and unaware. While the process is not necessarily accurate (attributed traits do not necessaril ...

2012

Humans as Feature Extractors: Combining Prosody and Personality Perception for Better Speaking Style Recognition

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gelareh Mohammadi

2011

www.sspnet.eu: A Web Portal for Social Signal Processing

Alessandro Vinciarelli

2010

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Recordings: Using Social Affiliation Networks for Feature Extraction

Sarah Favre, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Automatic analysis of social interactions attracts increasing attention in the multimedia community. This paper considers one of the most important aspects of the problem, namely the roles played by individuals interacting in different settings. In particu ...

2009

Implicit Human Centered Tagging

Alessandro Vinciarelli

2009

Social Signal Processing: Survey of an Emerging Domain

Hervé Bourlard, Alessandro Vinciarelli

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for s ...

2009

Capturing Order in Social Interactions

Alessandro Vinciarelli

As humans appear to be literally wired for social interaction, it is not surprising to observe that social aspects of human behavior and psychology attract interest in the computing community as well. The gap between social animal and unsocial machine was ...

2009

Role Recognition for Meeting Participants: an Approach Based on Lexical Information and Social Network Analysis

Sarah Favre, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Nikhil Garg

This paper presents experiments on the automatic recognition of roles in meetings. The proposed approach combines two sources of information: the lexical choices made by people playing different roles on one hand, and the Social Networks describing the int ...

2008

Role Recognition in Broadcast News Using Social Network Analysis and Duration Distribution Modeling

Alessandro Vinciarelli

This paper presents two approaches for speaker role recognition in multiparty audio recordings. The experiments are performed over a corpus of 96 radio bulletins corresponding to roughly 19 hours of material. Each recording involves, on average, eleven spe ...

2007

Application of Information Retrieval Technologies to Presentation Slides

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Jean-Marc Odobez

Presentations are becoming an increasingly more common means of communication in working environments, and slides are often the necessary supporting material on which the presentations rely. In this paper, we describe a slide indexing and retrieval system ...

2006

Noisy Text Categorization

Alessandro Vinciarelli

This work presents categorization experiments performed over noisy texts. By noisy it is meant any text obtained through an extraction process (affected by errors) from media other than digital texts (e.g. transcriptions of speech recordings extracted with ...

2005