Virtual talking heads and ambiant face-to-face communication

Gérard Bailly (1) , Frédéric Elisei (2) , Stephan Raidt (1)

1 GIPSA-MPACIF - GIPSA - Machines Parlantes, Agents Communicants & Interaction Face-à-face
2 GIPSA-Services - GIPSA-Services

We describe here our first effort for developing a virtual talking head able to engage a situated face-to-face interaction with a human partner. This paper concentrates on the low-level components of this interaction loop and the cognitive impact of the implementation of mutual attention and multimodal deixis on the communication task.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei, Stephan Raidt. Virtual talking heads and ambiant face-to-face communication. A. Esposito; E. Keller; M. Marinaro and M. Bratanic. The fundamentals of verbal and non-verbal communication and the biometrical issue, IOS Press BV, Amsterdam, pp.302-316, 2007, 978-1-58603-733-8. ⟨hal-00361913⟩