Publications by Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

BookTubing Across Regions: Examining Differences based on Nonverbal and Verbal Cues

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

BookTubers are a rapidly growing community in YouTube who shares content related to books. Previous literature has addressed problems related to automatically analyzing opinions and mood of video logs (vlogs) as a generic category in YouTube. Unfortunately ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Vlogging Over Time: Longitudinal Impressions and Behavior in YouTube

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

YouTube vlogging, as a popular genre of ubiquitous social video, engages people in entertainment, civic, and social activities. Although several aspects of vlogging have been studied in media studies and multimedia analysis, the longitudinal angle of vlogg ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Emergent leaders through looking and speaking: from audio-visual data to multimodal recognition

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes, Oya Aran

In this paper we present a multimodal analysis of emergent leadership in small groups using audio-visual features and discuss our experience in designing and collecting a data corpus for this purpose. The ELEA Audio-Visual Synchronized corpus (ELEA AVS) wa ...

2013

Computational Modeling of Face-to-Face Social Interaction Using Nonverbal Behavioral Cues

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

The computational modeling of face-to-face interactions using nonverbal behavioral cues is an emerging and relevant problem in social computing. Studying face-to-face interactions in small groups helps in understanding the basic processes of individual and ...

EPFL2011

Privacy-sensitive recognition of group conversational context with sociometers

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

Recognizing the conversational context in which group interactions unfold has applications in machines that support collaborative work and perform automatic social inference using contextual knowledge. This paper addresses the task of discriminating one co ...

2011

Computational modeling of face-to-face social interaction using nonverbal behavioral cues

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

The computational modeling of face-to-face interactions using nonverbal behavioral cues is an emerging and relevant problem in social computing. In the thesis, we have investigated individual social constructs in small groups such as dominance and status ( ...

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne2011

Mining group nonverbal conversational patterns using probabilistic topic models

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

The automatic discovery of group conversational behavior is a relevant problem in social computing. In this paper, we present an approach to address this problem by defining a novel group descriptor called bag of group-nonverbal-patterns defined on brief o ...

2010

Modeling Dominance in Group Conversations using NonVerbal Activity Cues

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

Dominance - a behavioral expression of power - is a fundamental mechanism of social interaction, expressed and perceived in conversations through spoken words and audio-visual nonverbal cues. The automatic modeling of dominance patterns from sensor data re ...

2008