Laughter Type Recognition from Whole Body Motion

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Griffin, Harry J., Aung, Min S. H., Romera-paredes, Bernardino, McLoughlin, Ciaran, McKeown, Gary, Curran, William and Bianchi-Berthouze, Nadia (2013) Laughter Type Recognition from Whole Body Motion. In: 2013 Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2013-09-02 - 2013-09-05, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Despite the importance of laughter in social interactions it remains little studied in affective computing. Respiratory, auditory, and facial laughter signals have been investigated but laughter-related body movements have received almost no attention. The aim of this study is twofold: first an investigation into observers' perception of laughter states (hilarious, social, awkward, fake, and non-laughter) based on body movements alone, through their categorization of avatars animated with natural and acted motion capture data. Significant differences in torso and limb movements were found between animations perceived as containing laughter and those perceived as nonlaughter. Hilarious laughter also differed from social laughter in the amount of bending of the spine, the amount of shoulder rotation and the amount of hand movement. The body movement features indicative of laughter differed between sitting and standing avatar postures. Based on the positive findings in this perceptual study, the second aim is to investigate the possibility of automatically predicting the distributions of observer's ratings for the laughter states. The findings show that the automated laughter recognition rates approach human rating levels, with the Random Forest method yielding the best performance.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Smart Emerging Technologies
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Colour and Imaging Lab
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2019 08:30
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 16:33
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72377
DOI: 10.1109/ACII.2013.64

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