2 research outputs found
MultiMediate '22: Backchannel Detection and Agreement Estimation in Group Interactions
Backchannels, i.e. short interjections of the listener, serve important
meta-conversational purposes like signifying attention or indicating agreement.
Despite their key role, automatic analysis of backchannels in group
interactions has been largely neglected so far. The MultiMediate challenge
addresses, for the first time, the tasks of backchannel detection and agreement
estimation from backchannels in group conversations. This paper describes the
MultiMediate challenge and presents a novel set of annotations consisting of
7234 backchannel instances for the MPIIGroupInteraction dataset. Each
backchannel was additionally annotated with the extent by which it expresses
agreement towards the current speaker. In addition to a an analysis of the
collected annotations, we present baseline results for both challenge tasks.Comment: ACM Multimedia 202
MultiMediate'23: Engagement Estimation and Bodily Behaviour Recognition in Social Interactions
Automatic analysis of human behaviour is a fundamental prerequisite for the
creation of machines that can effectively interact with- and support humans in
social interactions. In MultiMediate'23, we address two key human social
behaviour analysis tasks for the first time in a controlled challenge:
engagement estimation and bodily behaviour recognition in social interactions.
This paper describes the MultiMediate'23 challenge and presents novel sets of
annotations for both tasks. For engagement estimation we collected novel
annotations on the NOvice eXpert Interaction (NOXI) database. For bodily
behaviour recognition, we annotated test recordings of the MPIIGroupInteraction
corpus with the BBSI annotation scheme. In addition, we present baseline
results for both challenge tasks.Comment: ACM MultiMedia'2