Institute for Creative Technologies

USC Institute for Creative Technologies
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• Speech

• Detecting Emotional State of a Child in a Conversational Computer Game.
• Multimodal Speaker Segmentation and Identification in Presence of Overlapped Speech Segments.
• Speech Emotion Estimation in 3D Space.
• Non-Product Data-Dependent Partitions for Mutual Information Estimation:  Strong Consistency and App
• Robust voice activity detection using long-term signal variability.
• On Data-Driven Histogram-Based Estimation for Mutual Information.
• A Near-Optimal (Minimax) Tree-Structured Partition for Mutual Information Estimation.
• Robust Multimodal Person Recognition Using Low-Complexity Audio-Visual Feature Fusion Approaches.
• The USC Creative IT Database: A Multimodal Database of Theatrical Improvisation.
• Bark Frequency Transform Using an Arbitrary Order Allpass Filter.
• Language model adaptation using WWW documents obtained by utterance-based queries.
• An Exploratory Study of Manifolds of Emotional Speech.
• Predicting Interruptions in Dyadic Spoken Interactions.
• Visual Emotion Recognition Using Compact Facial Representations and Viseme Information.
• Decision Level Combination of Multiple Modalities for Recognition and Analysis of Emotional Expressi
• Information Divergence Estimation based on Data-Dependent Partitions.
• Lattice-based lexical cues for word fragment detection in conversational speech
• Audio scene understanding using topic models
• A Low-Complexity Dynamic Face-Voice Feature Fusion Approach to Multimodal Person Recognition.
• Combining lexical, syntactic and prosodic cues for improved online dialog act tagging
• Interpreting Ambiguous Emotional Expressions
• Towards Modeling User Behavior in Interactions Mediated through an Automated Bidirectional Speech Tr
• Hassan: A Virtual Human for Tactical Questioning
• Content Analysis for Acoustic Environment Classification in Mobile Robots
• Interplay Between Linguistic and Affective Goals in Facial Expression During Emotional Utterances
• Dealing With Doctors:  A Virtual Human for Non-team Interaction
• Synthesizing Expressive Speech Overview: Challenges, and Open Questions
• Unsupervised Multiple Speaker Indexing Using Genetic Models
• The Transonics Spoken Dialogue Translator: An aid for English-Persian Doctor-Patient interviews
• An Unsupervised Quantitative Measure for Word Prominence in Spontaneous Speech
• An Automatic Prosody Recognizer Using a Coupled Multi-stream Acoustic Model and a Syntactic-prosodic
• Smart Room:  Participant and Speaker Localization and Identification
• Speech Rate Estimation via Temporal Correlation and Selected Sub-band Correlation
• Towards Detecting Emotions in Spoken Dialogs
• Transonics: A speech to speech system for English-Persian Interactions
• Limited Domain Synthesis of Expressive Military Speech for Animated Characters
• Use of Model Transformations for Distributed Speech Recognition
• Recognition of Negative Emotions from the Speech Signal
• Efficient Scalable Speech Compression for Scalable Speech Recognition