Search Results - "Engin Erzin"

Discriminative Analysis of Lip Motion Features for Speaker Identification and Speech-Reading by Cetingul, H.E., Yemez, Y., Engin Erzin, Tekalp, A.M.

“…There have been several studies that jointly use audio, lip intensity, and lip geometry information for speaker identification and speech-reading applications…”
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Multimodal speaker identification using an adaptive classifier cascade based on modality reliability by Engin Erzin, Yemez, Y., Tekalp, A.M.

“…We present a multimodal open-set speaker identification system that integrates information coming from audio, face and lip motion modalities. For fusion of…”
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A Diversity Combination Model Incorporating an Inward Bias for Interaural Time-Level Difference Cue Integration in Sound Lateralization by Mojtahedi, Sina, Erzin, Engin, Ungan, Pekcan

“…A sound source with non-zero azimuth leads to interaural time level differences (ITD and ILD). Studies on hearing system imply that these cues are encoded in…”
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Learn2Dance: Learning Statistical Music-to-Dance Mappings for Choreography Synthesis by Ofli, F., Erzin, E., Yemez, Y., Tekalp, A. M.

“…We propose a novel framework for learning many-to-many statistical mappings from musical measures to dance figures towards generating plausible music-driven…”
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Audio-Facial Laughter Detection in Naturalistic Dyadic Conversations by Berker Turker, Bekir, Yemez, Yucel, Sezgin, T. Metin, Erzin, Engin

“…We address the problem of continuous laughter detection over audio-facial input streams obtained from naturalistic dyadic conversations. We first present…”
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Emotion Dependent Domain Adaptation for Speech Driven Affective Facial Feature Synthesis by Sadiq, Rizwan, Erzin, Engin

“…Although speech driven facial animation has been studied extensively in the literature, works focusing on the affective content of the speech are limited. This…”
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On the importance of hidden bias and hidden entropy in representational efficiency of the Gaussian-Bipolar Restricted Boltzmann Machines by Isabekov, Altynbek, Erzin, Engin

“…In this paper, we analyze the role of hidden bias in representational efficiency of the Gaussian-Bipolar Restricted Boltzmann Machines (GBPRBMs), which are…”
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Use of affect context in dyadic interactions for continuous emotion recognition by Fatima, Syeda Narjis, Erzin, Engin

“…Emotional dependencies play a crucial role in understanding complexities of dyadic interactions. Recent studies have shown that affect recognition tasks can…”
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Vocal Tract Contour Tracking in rtMRI Using Deep Temporal Regression Network by Asadiabadi, Sasan, Erzin, Engin

“…Recent advances in real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rtMRI) provide an invaluable tool to study speech articulation. In this paper, we present an effective…”
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Automatic Vocal Tractlandmark Tracking in Rtmri Using Fully Convolutional Networks and Kalman Filter by Asadiabadi, Sasan, Erzin, Engin

“…Vocal tract (VT) contour detection in real time MRI is a pre-stage to many speech production related applications such as articulatory analysis and synthesis…”
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Use of Affective Visual Information for Summarization of Human-Centric Videos by Kopro, Berkay, Erzin, Engin

“…The increasing volume of user-generated human-centric video content and its applications, such as video retrieval and browsing, require compact representations…”
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Affective synthesis and animation of arm gestures from speech prosody by Bozkurt, Elif, Yemez, Yücel, Erzin, Engin

“…•We investigate the use of continuous affect attributes, which are activation, valence and dominance, for speech-driven affective synthesis and animation of…”
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Batch Recurrent Q-Learning for Backchannel Generation Towards Engaging Agents by Hussain, Nusrah, Erzin, Engin, Sezgin, T. Metin, Yemez, Yucel

“…The ability to generate appropriate verbal and nonverbal backchannels by an agent during human-robot interaction greatly enhances the interaction experience…”
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Multimodal analysis of speech and arm motion for prosody-driven synthesis of beat gestures by Bozkurt, Elif, Yemez, Yücel, Erzin, Engin

“…•We propose a speech-driven beat gestures synthesis and animation framework.•We use hidden semi-Markov models for the joint analysis of speech and arm…”
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Training Socially Engaging Robots: Modeling Backchannel Behaviors with Batch Reinforcement Learning by Hussain, Nusrah, Erzin, Engin, Sezgin, T. Metin, Yemez, Yucel

“…A key aspect of social human-robot interaction is natural non-verbal communication. In this work, we train an agent with batch reinforcement learning to…”
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Domain Adaptation for Food Intake Classification With Teacher/Student Learning by Turan, M. A. Tugtekin, Erzin, Engin

“…Automatic dietary monitoring (ADM) stands as a challenging application in wearable healthcare technologies. In this paper, we define an ADM to perform food…”
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Use of affect based interaction classification for continuous emotion tracking by Khaki, Hossein, Erzin, Engin

“…Natural and affective handshakes of two participants define the course of dyadic interaction. Affective states of the participants are expected to be…”
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Improving phoneme recognition of throat microphone speech recordings using transfer learning by Turan, M.A. Tuğtekin, Erzin, Engin

“…Throat microphones (TM) are a type of skin-attached non-acoustic sensors, which are robust to environmental noise but carry a lower signal bandwidth…”
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AffectON: Incorporating Affect Into Dialog Generation by Bucinca, Zana, Yemez, Yucel, Erzin, Engin, Sezgin, Metin

“…Due to its expressivity, natural language is paramount for explicit and implicit affective state communication among humans. The same linguistic inquiry (e.g.,…”
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Affect recognition from lip articulations by Sadiq, Rizwan, Erzin, Engin

“…Lips deliver visually active clues for speech articulation. Affective states define how humans articulate speech; hence, they also change articulation of lip…”
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