Affective Listener Alfred

Live demonstration of the affective listener Alfred (http://www.hcm-lab.de/alfred-virtual-character.html), a virtual character developed at the University of Augsburg, which is capable of recognizing and displaying the emotion of a user. The system combines a webcam and a wireless microphone to capture the behavior of the user. The captured signals are processed through the Social Signal Interpretation (SSI, http://hcm-lab.de/ssi.html) framework using EmoVoice (http://hcm-lab.de/EmoVoice.html) and SHORE (http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/bf/bv/ks/gpe/demo/index.jsp). The extracted emotional cues are mapped on a 2-dimensional emotional space, where they are combined before the final decision is sent to the virtual character.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• social
• signal
• processing
• SSI
• emotion
• recognition
• face
• speech
• Horde3D
• talking
• head
• emotional
• expressive
• university
• Augsburg
• animation
• real
• time
• virtual
• character