Audio-Visual Processing in Meetings: Seven Questions and Some AMI Answers (2008)
Marc Al-hames, Thomas Hain, Jan Cernocky, Sascha Schreiber, Mannes Poel, Ronald Müller, ...
Abstract. The project Augmented Multi-party Interaction (AMI) is concerned with the development of meeting browsers and remote meeting assistants for instrumented meeting rooms – and the required...
Estimating 2D Upper Body Poses from Monocular Images ∗ (2008)
Jeroen Broekhuijsen, Mannes Poel
Automatic estimation and recognition of poses from video allows for a whole range of applications. The research described here is an important step towards automatic extraction of 3D poses. We...
WP9- Iterative Design of Embodied Conversational Agents With Wizard of Oz Studies (2008)
Nonverbal Behaviour, Towards Affective, Interactive Ecas, Catherine Pelachaud, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt, ...
Adaptable body animation according to personality and emotion
Audio-Visual Processing in Meetings: Seven Questions and Current AMI Answers (2008)
Marc Al-hames, Thomas Hain, Jan Cernocky, Sascha Schreiber, Mannes Poel, Ronald Müller, ...
Abstract. The project Augmented Multi-party Interaction (AMI) is concerned with the development of meeting browsers and remote meeting assistants for instrumented meeting rooms – and the required...
Toward Affective Dialogue Modeling using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (2008)
Trung H. Bui, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
Abstract. We propose a novel approach to developing a dialogue model which is able to take into account some aspects of the user’s emotional state and acts appropriately. The dialogue model uses a...
A POMDP approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling (2008)
Trung H. Bui, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
Abstract. We propose a novel approach to developing a dialogue model that is able to take into account some aspects of the user's affective state and to act
Classifying Visemes for Automatic Lipreading (2008)
Michiel Visser, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
Abstract. Automatic lipreading is automatic speech recognition that uses only visual information. The relevant data in a video signal is isolated and features are extracted from it. From a sequence...
Toward Affective Dialogue Modeling using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (2008)
Trung H. Bui, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
Abstract. We propose a novel approach to developing a dialogue model which is able to take into account some aspects of the user’s emotional state and acts appropriately. The dialogue model uses a...
Audio-Visual Processing in Meetings: Seven Questions and Current AMI Answers (2008)
Marc Al-hames, Thomas Hain, Jan Cernocky, Sascha Schreiber, Mannes Poel, Ronald Müller, ...
Abstract. The project Augmented Multi-party Interaction (AMI) is concerned with the development of meeting browsers and remote meeting assistants for instrumented meeting rooms – and the required...
Rutger Rienks, Ronald Poppe, Mannes Poel
To gain insight into gaze behavior in meetings, this paper compares the results from a Naive Bayes classifier, Neural Networks and humans on speaker prediction in four-person meetings given solely...
Solving Computational Problems Using Coherent Oscillation (2007)
Van Schooten, Prof. Dr. Ir. Anton Nijholt, Dr. Marc Drossaers, Dr. Mannes Poel
6 December 1997 4 Abstract Coherent oscillation is a remarkable phenomenon which has been observed in several neurobiological experimental studies, and, as a result, has lately received substantial...
Learning Emotions in Virtual Environments (2007)
A modular hybrid neural network architecture, called SHAME, for emotion learning is introduced. The system learns from annotated data how the emotional state is generated and changes due to internal...
Remco Seesink Werner, Werner Dierssen, Niek Kooij, Albert Schoute, Mannes Poel, Erik Schepers, ...
In this paper a data sharing framework for multithreaded, distributed control programs is described that is realized in C++ by means of only a few, powerful classes and templates. Fast data exchange...
Anton Nijholt, Mannes Poel, Martijn Van Otterlo
This thesis tries to answer the question how to predict the reaction of the stock market to news articles using the latest suitable developments in Natural Language Processing. This is done using...
Joris Visser, Maurice Keulen, Dr. Mannes Poel
1.1 Project background.........................................................................................................4 1.2 Schema...
Boris Reuderink, Maja Pantic, Mannes Poel, Khiet Truong
Laughter is a highly variable signal, and can express a spectrum of emotions. This makes the automatic detection of laughter a challenging but interesting task. We perform automatic laughter...
Ruben Kooijman, Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt, Mannes Poel
This thesis looks at several aspects of head movements used in dyadic face-toface conversations. Head movement behaviors are analyzed on external appearance (form) and how they are used, their...
Paul De Groot, Dr. Mannes Poel, Dr. Albert Schoute, Ir. Thijs Verschoor
Enhancing the performance and testability of the MI20 robot soccer system
Poel M., Comparison of Silhouette Shape Descriptors for Example-based Human Pose Recovery (2006)
Automatically recovering human poses from visual input is useful but challenging due to variations in image space and the high dimensionality of the pose space. In this paper, we assume that a human...
Analysing Facial Affect Displays Using the Component Process Model (2005)
Dirk Heylen, Mattijs Ghijsen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt, Rieks Akker
tuation, the facial expressions that occur in that situation and the mental state one might assume to hold that is consistent with the data and that might be of use for the tutoring system which...
The Dutch AIBO Team Report on RoboCup 2004 (2005)
Stijn Oomes, Pieter Jonker, Mannes Poel, Arnoud Visser, Marco Wiering, Wouter Caarls, ...
This document provides a brief report on the Dutch AIBO Team in 2004, its first year of existence. The team setup is described, as are the research plans for 2004. In addition, the
Generic dialogue modeling for multi-application dialogue systems (2005)
Trung H. Bui, Anton Nijholt, Mannes Poel
Abstract. We present a novel approach to developing interfaces for multi-application dialogue systems. The targeted interfaces allow transparent switching between a large number of applications...
Example-based pose estimation in monocular images using compact fourier descriptors (2005)
Automatically estimating human poses from visual input is useful but challenging due to variations in image space and the high dimensionality of the pose space. In this paper, we assume that a human...
A General Agent Design Specification (2004)
Master's Thesis Appendix, Emile Michel Hobo, Anton Nijholt, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel
This report describes an agent architecture which has been derived using the General Theory of Consciousness.
Derivative Ideas and Considerations Based on the General Theory of Consciousness (2004)
Master's Thesis Appendix, Emile Michel Hobo, Anton Nijholt, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel
This article discusses some derivate solutions to problems and considerations, supporting the General Theory of Consciousness.
Emotion Based Agent Architectures for Tutoring Systems - The INES Architecture (2004)
Mannes Poel, Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt
In this paper we discuss our approach to integrate emotions in the agent based tutoring system INES (Intelligent Nursing Education System). First we discuss the INES system where we emphasize the...
Fast Data Sharing within a distributed multithreaded control framework for robot teams (2003)
Seesink, Remco, Dierssen, Werner, Kooij, Niek, Schoute, Albert, Poel, Mannes, Schepers, Erik, ...
In this paper a data sharing framework for multithreaded, distributed control programs is described that is realized in C++ by means of only a few, powerful classes and templates. Fast data exchange...
Exporting Vector Muscles for Facial Animation (2003)
Bui, The Duy, Heylen, Dirk, Poel, Mannes, Nijholt, Anton
In this paper we introduce a method of exporting vector muscles from one 3D face to another for facial animation. Starting from a 3D face with an extended version of Waters’ linear muscle system,...
Automatic face morphing for transferring facial animation (2003)
Bui, The Duy, Poel, Mannes, Heylen, Dirk, Nijholt, Anton
In this paper, we introduce a novel method of automatically finding the training set of RBF networks for morphing a prototype face to represent a new face. This is done by automatically specifying...
IN EEN ROBOT VOETBAL SYSTEEM (2003)
Werner Dirk, Jan Dierssen, Dr. Mannes Poel, Dr. Albert Schoute, Werner Dirk, Jan Dierssen, ...
Robotvoetbal is een standaard vraagstuk waarin nieuwe technologiën kunnen worden geïntegreerd en onderzocht. Voorbeelden van deze technologiën zijn beeldverwerking, systeemtheorie, kunstmatige...
An action selection architecture for an emotional agent (2003)
Gertjan J. Burghouts, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
An architecture for action selection is presented linking emotion, cognition and behavior. It defines the information and emotion processes of an agent. The architecture has been implemented and used...
An Action Selection Architecture for an Emotional Agent (2003)
Gertjan J. Burghouts, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
An architecture for action selection is presented linking emotion, cognition and behavior. It defines the information and emotion processes of an agent. The architecture has been implemented and used...
Exporting Vector Muscles for Facial Animation (2003)
The Duy Bui, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
In this paper we introduce a method of exporting vector muscles from one 3D face to another for facial animation. Starting from a 3D face with an extended version of Waters' linear muscle...
ParleE: An Adaptive Plan Based Event Appraisal Model of Emotions (2002)
Bui, The Duy, Heylen, Dirk, Poel, Mannes, Nijholt, Anton
We propose ParleE, a quantitative, flexible and adaptive model of emotions for a conversational agent in a multi-agent environment capable of multimodal communication. ParleE appraises events based...
ParleE: An Adaptive Plan Based Event Appraisal Model of Emotions (2002)
The Duy Bui, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
We propose ParleE, a quantitative, flexible and adaptive model of emotions for a conversational agent in a multi-agent environment capable of multimodal communication. ParleE appraises events based...
Generation of facial expressions from emotion using a fuzzy rule based system (2001)
Bui, The Duy, Heylen, Dirk, Poel, Mannes, Nijholt, Anton
We propose a fuzzy rule-based system to map representations of the emotional state of an animated agent onto muscle contraction values for the appropriate facial expressions. Our implementation pays...
Generation of facial expressions from emotion using a fuzzy rule based system (2001)
The Duy Bui, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt
Abstract. We propose a fuzzy rule-based system to map representations of the emotional state of an animated agent onto muscle contraction values for the appropriate facial expressions. Our...
Embodied agents in virtual environments: The Aveiro project (2001)
Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt, Mannes Poel
ABSTRACT: We present current and envisaged work on the AVEIRO project of our research group concerning virtual environments inhabited by autonomous embodied agents. These environments are being built...
Embodied agents in virtual environments: The Aveiro project (2001)
Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt, Mannes Poel
ABSTRACT: We present current and envisaged work on the AVEIRO project of our research group concerning virtual environments inhabited by autonomous embodied agents. These environments are being built...
The compositional approach to sequential consistency and lazy caching (1999)
Summary. The lazy caching protocol proposed by Afek, Brown and Merritt [ABM93], is explained and formally proven correct by means of compositional methods. The protocol is decomposed into four simple...
Finding Classes of Dialogue Utterances with Kohonen Networks (1997)
Toine Andernach, Mannes Poel, Etto Salomons
In this paper, we present Kohonen Self-Organizing Feature Maps (SOMs) as a method for automatically finding classes of dialogue utterances on the basis of superficial utterance features, in...
For Communication Closed, Maarten Fokkinga, Mannes Poel
The Communication Closed Layers law is shown to be modular complete for a model related to that of Mazurkiewicz. It is shown that in a modular style of program development the CCL rule cannot be...