Understanding social interpersonal interaction via synchronization templates of facial events
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Author(s)
Hoque, Mohammed Ehasanul
Curhan, Jared R.
Li, Rui
Date Issued
February 2018
Journal
Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18)
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AAAI Press
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Li, Rui, Jared Curhan, Mohammed Ehsan Hoque. "Understanding Social Interpersonal Interaction via Synchronization Templates of Facial Events." Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI18), February 2-7, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Abstract
Automatic facial expression analysis in inter-personal communication is challenging. Not only because conversation partners' facial expressions mutually influence each other, but also because no correct interpretation of facial expressions is possible without taking social context into account. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework to model interactional synchronization between conversation partners based on their facial expressions. Interactional synchronization manifests temporal dynamics of conversation partners' mutual influence. In particular, the model allows us to discover a set of common and unique facial synchronization templates directly from natural interpersonal interaction without recourse to any predefined labeling schemes. The facial synchronization templates represent periodical facial event coordinations shared by multiple conversation pairs in a specific social context. We test our model on two different dyadic conversations of negotiation and job-interview. Based on the discovered facial event coordination, we are able to predict their conversation outcomes with higher accuracy than HMMs and GMMs.
MIT Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sloan School of Management
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https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/viewFile/17060/15856
