Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues

Interactive and Unsupervised Multimodal Systems.- Multimodal Human Machine Interactions in Virtual and Augmented Reality.- Speech through the Ear, the Eye, the Mouth and the Hand.- Multimodality Issues in Conversation Analysis of Greek TV Interviews.- Representing Communicative Function and Behavior in Multimodal Communication.- Using the iCat as Avatar in Remote Meetings.- Using Context to Disambiguate Communicative Signals.- Modeling Aspects of Multimodal Lithuanian Human - Machine Interface.- Using a Signing Avatar as a Sign Language Research Tool.- Data Fusion at Different Levels.- Voice Technology Applied for Building a Prototype Smart Room.- Towards Facial Gestures Generation by Speech Signal Analysis Using HUGE Architecture.- Multi-modal Speech Processing Methods: An Overview and Future Research Directions Using a MATLAB Based Audio-Visual Toolbox.- From Extensity to Protensity in CAS: Adding Sounds to Icons.- Statistical Modeling of Interpersonal Distance with Range Imaging Data.- Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Signals.- How the Brain Processes Language in Different Modalities.- From Speech and Gestures to Dialogue Acts.- The Language of Interjections.- Gesture and Gaze in Persuasive Political Discourse.- Content in Embedded Sentences.- A Distributional Concept for Modeling Dialectal Variation in TTS.- Regionalized Text-to-Speech Systems: Persona Design and Application Scenarios.- Vocal Gestures in Slovak: Emotions and Prosody.- Spectrum Modification for Emotional Speech Synthesis.- Comparison of Grapheme and Phoneme Based Acoustic Modeling in LVCSR Task in Slovak.- Automatic Motherese Detection for Face-to-Face Interaction Analysis.- Recognition of Emotions in German Speech Using Gaussian Mixture Models.- Electroglottogram Analysis of Emotionally Styled Phonation.- Emoticonsciousness.- Urban Environmental Information Perception and Multimodal Communication: The Air Quality Example.- Underdetermined Blind Source Separation Using Linear Separation