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The INTERSPEECH 2013 computational paralinguistics challenge: social signals, conflict, emotion, autism
The INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge provides for the first time a unified test-bed for Social Signals such as laughter in speech. It further introduces conflict in group discussions as new tasks and picks up on autism and its manifestations in speech. Finally, emotion is revisited as task, albeit with a broader ranger of overall twelve emotional states. In this paper, we describe these four Sub-Challenges, Challenge conditions, baselines, and a new feature set by the openSMILE toolkit, provided to the participants.
\em Bj\"orn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Klaus Scherer}\\
{\em Fabien Ringeval, Mohamed Chetouani, Felix Weninger, Florian Eyben, Erik Marchi, }\\
{\em Hugues Salamin, Anna Polychroniou, Fabio Valente, Samuel Kim
Wavelets in Banach Spaces
We describe a construction of wavelets (coherent states) in Banach spaces
generated by ``admissible'' group representations. Our main targets are
applications in pure mathematics while connections with quantum mechanics are
mentioned. As an example we consider operator valued Segal-Bargmann type spaces
and the Weyl functional calculus.
Keywords: Wavelets, coherent states, Banach spaces, group representations,
covariant, contravariant (Wick) symbols, Heisenberg group, Segal-Bargmann
spaces, Weyl functional calculus (quantization), second quantization, bosonic
field.Comment: 37 pages; LaTeX2e; no pictures; 27/07/99: many small correction
On the Relation Between Fock and Schroedinger Representations for a Scalar Field
Linear free field theories are one of the few Quantum Field Theories that are
exactly soluble. There are, however, (at least) two very different languages to
describe them, Fock space methods and the Schroedinger functional description.
In this paper, the precise sense in which the two representations are related
is reviewed. Several properties of these representations are studied, among
them the well known fact that the Schroedinger counterpart of the usual Fock
representation is described by a Gaussian measure. A real scalar field theory
is considered, both on Minkowski spacetime for arbitrary, non-inertial
embeddings of the Cauchy surface, and for arbitrary (globally hyperbolic)
curved spacetimes. As a concrete example, the Schroedinger representation on
stationary and homogeneous cosmological spacetimes is constructed.Comment: 23 pages. No figures. A new section on examples adde
Towards responsive Sensitive Artificial Listeners
This paper describes work in the recently started project SEMAINE, which aims to build a set of Sensitive Artificial Listeners – conversational agents designed to sustain an interaction with a human user despite limited verbal skills, through robust recognition and generation of non-verbal behaviour in real-time, both when the agent is speaking and listening. We report on data collection and on the design of a system architecture in view of real-time responsiveness
Explaining Leibniz-equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the Hole Argument and physical individuation of point-events
"The last remnant of physical objectivity of space-time" is disclosed in the
case of a continuous family of spatially non-compact models of general
relativity (GR). The {\it physical individuation} of point-events is furnished
by the intrinsic degrees of freedom of the gravitational field, (viz, the {\it
Dirac observables}) that represent - as it were - the {\it ontic} part of the
metric field. The physical role of the {\it epistemic} part (viz. the {\it
gauge} variables) is likewise clarified as emboding the unavoidable
non-inertial aspects of GR. At the end the philosophical import of the {\it
Hole Argument} is substantially weakened and in fact the Argument itself
dis-solved, while a specific four-dimensional {\it holistic and structuralist}
view of space-time, (called {\it point-structuralism}), emerges, including
elements common to the tradition of both {\it substantivalism} and {\it
relationism}. The observables of our models undergo real {\it temporal change}:
this gives new evidence to the fact that statements like the {\it frozen-time}
character of evolution, as other ontological claims about GR, are {\it model
dependent}. \medskip Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
PhysicsComment: 37 pages, talk at Oxford Conference on Spacetime (2004), to appear in
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Affiliations Correcte
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