Human Behavior Understanding

1. Front Matter

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2. Social Signals

   1. How Do You Like Your Virtual Agent?: Human-Agent Interaction Experience through Nonverbal Features and Personality Traits

      • Aleksandra Cerekovic, Oya Aran, Daniel Gatica-Perez

      Pages 1-15

   2. Human Involvement in E-Coaching: Effects on Effectiveness, Perceived Influence and Trust

      • Bart A. Kamphorst, Michel C. A. Klein, Arlette van Wissen

      Pages 16-29

   3. Just the Way You Chat: Linking Personality, Style and Recognizability in Chats

      • Giorgio Roffo, Cinzia Giorgetta, Roberta Ferrario, Marco Cristani

      Pages 30-41

3. Face and Affect

   1. A New Multi-modal Dataset for Human Affect Analysis

      • Haolin Wei, David S. Monaghan, Noel E. O’Connor, Patricia Scanlon

      Pages 42-51

   2. The Role of Color and Contrast in Facial Age Estimation

      • Hamdi Dibeklioğlu, Theo Gevers, Marcel Lucassen, Albert Ali Salah

      Pages 52-61

4. Motion Analysis

   1. Dominant Motion Analysis in Regular and Irregular Crowd Scenes

      • Habib Ullah, Mohib Ullah, Nicola Conci

      Pages 62-72

   2. Coupling Fall Detection and Tracking in Omnidirectional Cameras

      • Barış Evrim Demiröz, Albert Ali Salah, Lale Akarun

      Pages 73-85

5. Multiparty Interactions

   1. Learning Sparse Prototypes for Crowd Perception via Ensemble Coding Mechanisms

      • Yanhao Zhang, Shengping Zhang, Qingming Huang, Thomas Serre

      Pages 86-100

   2. Dyadic Interaction Detection from Pose and Flow

      • Coert van Gemeren, Robby T. Tan, Ronald Poppe, Remco C. Veltkamp

      Pages 101-115

6. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2014, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2014. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: social signals; face and affect; motion analysis; and multiparty interactions.

• affect recognition
• age estimation
• artificial intelligence (incl. robotics)
• chat analysis
• computer analysis of human behavior
• computer vision
• crowd perception
• face analysis
• human-agent interaction
• machine learning
• multimodal
• pattern recognition
• social signal processing
• user interfaces and human computer interaction

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  Hyun Soo Park

• Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

  Albert Ali Salah

• University of California, David, USA

  Yong Jae Lee

• University of Southern California, Playa Vista, USA

  Louis-Philippe Morency

• Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Yaser Sheikh

• Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Modena, Modena, Italy

  Rita Cucchiara

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