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| Title | The AVLaughterCycle Database |
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| Authors | Jérôme Urbain, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Thierry Dutoit, Alexis Moinet, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud, Benjamin Picart, Joëlle Tilmanne and Johannes Wagner |
| Abstract | This paper presents the large audiovisual laughter database recorded as part ofthe AVLaughterCycle project held during the eNTERFACE’09 Workshop in Genova.24 subjects participated. The freely available database includes audio signaland video recordings as well as facial motion tracking, thanks to markersplaced on the subjects’ face. Annotations of the recordings, focusing onlaughter description, are also provided and exhibited in this paper. In total,the corpus contains more than 1000 spontaneous laughs and 27 acted laughs. Thelaughter utterances are highly variable: the laughter duration ranges from250ms to 82s and the sounds cover voiced vowels, breath-like expirations, hum-,hiccup- or grunt-like sounds, etc. However, as the subjects had no one tointeract with, the database contains very few speech-laughs. Acted laughs tend to be longer than spontaneous ones and are more oftencomposed of voiced vowels. The database can be useful for automatic laughterprocessing or cognitive science works. For the AVLaughterCycle project, it hasserved to animate a laughing virtual agent with an output laugh linked to theconversational partner’s input laugh. |
| Language | Emotion Recognition/Generation |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Acquisition, Emotion Recognition/Generation |
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The AVLaughterCycle Database |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{URBAIN10.289, author = {Jérôme Urbain, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Thierry Dutoit, Alexis Moinet, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud, Benjamin Picart, Joëlle Tilmanne and Johannes Wagner}, title = {The AVLaughterCycle Database}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |