Anna Esposito & Nikolaos Bourbakis 
Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction [PDF ebook] 
COST Action 2102 International Conference, Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007. Revised Papers

– Static and Dynamic Processing of Faces, Facial Expressions, and Gaze.- Data Mining Spontaneous Facial Behavior with Automatic Expression Coding.- Ekfrasis: A Formal Language for Representing and Generating Sequences of Facial Patterns for Studying Emotional Behavior.- On the Relevance of Facial Expressions for Biometric Recognition.- Biometric Face Recognition with Different Training and Testing Databases.- Combining Features for Recognizing Emotional Facial Expressions in Static Images.- Mutually Coordinated Anticipatory Multimodal Interaction.- Affordances and Cognitive Walkthrough for Analyzing Human-Virtual Human Interaction.- – Emotional Speech Synthesis and Recognition: Applications to Telecommunication Systems.- Individual Traits of Speaking Style and Speech Rhythm in a Spoken Discourse.- The Organization of a Neurocomputational Control Model for Articulatory Speech Synthesis.- Automatic Speech Recognition Used for Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems.- ECESS Platform for Web Based TTS Modules and Systems Evaluation.- Towards Slovak Broadcast News Automatic Recording and Transcribing Service.- Computational Stylometry: Who’s in a Play?.- The Acoustic Front-End in Scenarios of Interaction Research.- Application of Expressive Speech in TTS System with Cepstral Description.- Speech Emotion Perception by Human and Machine.- Expressive Speech Synthesis Using Emotion-Specific Speech Inventories.- Study on Speaker-Independent Emotion Recognition from Speech on Real-World Data.- Exploiting a Vowel Based Approach for Acted Emotion Recognition.- Towards Annotation of Nonverbal Vocal Gestures in Slovak.- The Cine Lingua Approach: Verbal and Non-verbal Features in Second Language Acquisition. Film Narrative to Anchor Comprehension and Production.