Björn Schuller - Böcker

This book explores applied machine learning and deep learning in the field of sensing, vision and sensor-based applications. It includes a series of methodologies, exploration of new applications, presentations on relevant datasets, challenging applications, guidelines, ideas and future scopes. Edited by leading experts in these arenas, the book will be of great interest to academic researchers, graduate students and industry professionals in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, AI, sensing, computer vision and sensors.

Visual Sensing and Ubiquitous Computing explores applied machine learning and deep learning in the field of sensing, vision and sensor-based applications. It includes a series of methodologies, exploration of new applications, presentations on relevant datasets, challenging applications, guidelines, ideas and future scopes.Edited by leading experts in these arenas, the book will be of great interest to academic researchers, graduate students, and industry professionals in the fields of machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence (AI), sensing, computer vision, and sensors.

This book presents the methods, tools and techniques that are currently being used to recognise (automatically) the affect, emotion, personality and everything else beyond linguistics (‘paralinguistics’) expressed by or embedded in human speech and language.It is the first book to provide such a systematic survey of paralinguistics in speech and language processing. The technology described has evolved mainly from automatic speech and speaker recognition and processing, but also takes into account recent developments within speech signal processing, machine intelligence and data mining.Moreover, the book offers a hands-on approach by integrating actual data sets, software, and open-source utilities which will make the book invaluable as a teaching tool and similarly useful for those professionals already in the field.Key features: Provides an integrated presentation of basic research (in phonetics/linguistics and humanities) with state-of-the-art engineering approaches for speech signal processing and machine intelligence.Explains the history and state of the art of all of the sub-fields which contribute to the topic of computational paralinguistics.C overs the signal processing and machine learning aspects of the actual computational modelling of emotion and personality and explains the detection process from corpus collection to feature extraction and from model testing to system integration.Details aspects of real-world system integration including distribution, weakly supervised learning and confidence measures.Outlines machine learning approaches including static, dynamic and context‑sensitive algorithms for classification and regression.Includes a tutorial on freely available toolkits, such as the open-source ‘openEAR’ toolkit for emotion and affect recognition co-developed by one of the authors, and a listing of standard databases and feature sets used in the field to allow for immediate experimentation enabling the reader to build an emotion detection model on an existing corpus.

This book illustrates the rapid pace of development in intelligent assistive technology in recent years, and highlights some salient examples of using modern IT&C technologies to provide devices, systems and application software for persons with certain motor or cognitive disabilities.

This book illustrates the rapid pace of development in intelligent assistive technology in recent years, and highlights some salient examples of using modern IT&C technologies to provide devices, systems and application software for persons with certain motor or cognitive disabilities.

The two-volume set LNCS 6974 and LNCS 6975 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2011, held in Memphis,TN, USA, in October 2011.The 135 papers in this two volume set presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on recognition and synthesis of human affect, affect-sensitive applications, methodological issues in affective computing, affective and social robotics, affective and behavioral interfaces, relevant insights from psychology, affective databases, Evaluation and annotation tools.