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Deliverables

Reactive Agent and Touch Enabling

Reactive Agent and Touch Enabling R PU M30 will describe the results of the reactive character animation system and presents the design and evaluation of the hapticenabled interaction techniques

Agent Social Interpretation Enabling

Agent Social Interpretation Enabling R PU M24 will demonstrate the fully integrated social sensing system with multimodal interpretation components We will evaluate the final social interpretation components in terms of recognition quality and the effect of transfer learning and context consideration

Non-verbal Agent Behaviour Enabling

Nonverbal Agent Behaviour Enabling R PU M24 will present a causal model to predict correct interpersonal agent behaviour based on analysis of the human interlocutor This includes prediction of fitting behaviour as well as correct timings

Interim Report on Non-verbal Agent Behaviour Enabling

Interim Report on Non-verbal Agent Behaviour Enabling (R, PU, M12) will concretely define the positive interpersonal behavioural traits to be shown by the virtual agent and analyse the causal relation between user behaviour and expected agent behaviour for a positive interpersonal experience.

Ad-hoc BulletProof Statements

Adhoc BulletProof Statements R PU M24 At least a bulletproofbased protocol for one of the relevant required statement including full implementation

Revised report on Modular Architecture, protocols and APIs

Revised report on modular architecture, protocols and APIs (R, PU, M12) A report revising the architecture, protocols and APIs after the initial research cycle.

Project Handbook and Quality Plan

Project Handbook and Quality Plan (R, PU, M3) contains general operational information including contact details, reporting processes, communication protocols, document templates and numbering methods, logos et cetera. Quality plan elements include information about technical quality control, risk logs and the procedures for risk monitoring, decision-making and conflict resolution.

Agent-to-agent interaction protocol

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Context Sensitive Agent Adaption Enabling

Context Sensitive Agent Adaption Enabling R PU M30 will present a socially aware reinforcement learning approach which enables an unobtrusive adaption of interpersonal agent behaviour to user preferences by using social interpretation as reward

Interim Report on Reactive Behaviour and Haptic Techniques

Interim Report on Reactive Behaviour and Haptic Techniques (R, PU, M15) will show progress on the reactive character animation system as well as the preliminary development and evaluation of haptic-enabled interaction techniques.

Experimental Production Scenario Results

Experimental Production Scenario Results R PU M36 A report on the findings based on the experimental productions from beginning to end technical creative coordination details with a postmortem section specifying all the lessons learned bestpractices carried out in the experimental production Data and final report of the User Group chaired by Dr Otte final evaluation reports of public audiences and creative professionals Documentation includes a written report and visual material a short film

Prototype Evaluation Results

Prototype Evaluation Results R PU M36 with results of all prototype evaluation tasks for PRESENT

Interim Report on Agent Social Interpretation Enabling

Interim Report on Agent Social Interpretation Enabling (R, PU, M12) will present prototypical recognition components for the interpretation of social behaviour of the agent’s human counterpart. Therefore, we evaluate appropriate machine learning models, assess the needed amount training data as well as acquisition plans and show a first integration in the agent’s social sensing system.

Final Dissemination Report

Final Dissemination Report R PU M36 Report on dissemination activities for Years 13 and plans for further dissemination of results with links to the academic publications produced in the course of the project

Real-time Agent Creation Demonstration

Real-time Agent Creation Demonstration (DEM, PU, M12) virtual agent shaded and ray-traced in real time.

Interim Visual Facial Animation Demonstration

Interim Visual Facial Animation Demonstration (DEM, PU, M15) Demonstration of facial animation of the character rig driven by offline performance data and an initial version of the facial animation engine.

Interim Body Animation Visual Synthesis Demonstration

Interim Body Animation Visual Synthesis Demonstration (DEM, PU, M18) Demonstration of prototype software component to animate and puppeteer an agent; interim demonstration will be based on same data used for training as well as data outside of training envelop to validate the model and the boundaries.

Project Website

Project Website (DEC, PU, M6). A multimedia website with public deliverables and information.

Data Management Plan

Data Management Plan (R, PU, M6) will report on the data plan strategy for the proposal. The plan will address data that can be made available for open research and accessibility.

Publications

Pianobot: An Adaptive Robotic Piano Tutor

Author(s): Hannes Ritschel, Andreas Seiderer, Elisabeth Andre
Published in: Workshop on Exploring Creative Content in Social Robotics at HRI 2020, 2020
Publisher: -

A Prototypical Network Approach for Evaluating Generated Emotional Speech

Author(s): Alice Baird, Silvan Mertes, Manuel Milling, Lukas Stappen, Thomas Wiest, Elisabeth Andre, Bjorn W. Schuller
Published in: INTERSPEECH'21, 2021
Publisher: Proc. Interspeech
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2021-1123

FIRA - Portable Realtime Rig Deformation

Author(s): Manne Öhrström, Leo Hills, Theodore Jones
Published in: DigiPro '21: The Digital Production Symposium, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3469095.3469277

An Evolutionary-based Generative Approach for Audio Data Augmentation

Author(s): Silvan Mertes, Alice Baird, Dominik Schiller, Bjorn W. Schuller, Elisabeth Andre
Published in: 2020 IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-9320-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/mmsp48831.2020.9287156

Generalized Microscropic Crowd Simulation using Costs in Velocity Space

Author(s): Wouter van Toll; Fabien Grzeskowiak; Axel Lopez Gandia; Javad Amirian; Florian Berton; Julien Bruneau; Beatriz Cabrero Daniel; Alberto Jovane; Julien Pettré
Published in: i3D 2020 - ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2020
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3384382.3384532

Implementing Parallel and Independent Movements for a Social Robot's Affective Expressions

Author(s): Hannes Ritschel; Thomas Kiderle; Elisabeth André
Published in: 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aciiw52867.2021.9666341

Topology-aware Camera Control for Real-time Applications

Author(s): Alberto Jovane, Amaury Louarn, Marc Christie
Published in: Motion, Interaction and Games, 2020, Page(s) 1-10, ISBN 9781450381710
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3424636.3426892

Multimodal Joke Presentation for Social Robots based on Natural-Language Generation and Nonverbal Behaviors

Author(s): Hannes Ritschel,Thomas Kiderle, Klaus Weber, Elisabeth Andre
Published in: Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human–Robot Interaction at HRI 2020, 2020
Publisher: -

On the Potential of Voice Conversion for Virtual Agents

Author(s): Silvan Mertes,Thomas Kiderle, Ruben Schalgowski, Florian Lingenfelser, Elisabeth André
Published in: 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 2021
Publisher: IEEE

Analysis by Synthesis: Using an expressive TTS Model as Feature Extractor for Paralinguistic Speech Classification

Author(s): Dominik Schiller1, Silvan Mertes1, Pol van Rijn, Elisabeth Andre
Published in: INTERSPEECH'21, 2021
Publisher: Proc. Inerspeech
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2021-1587

A trust module for the interaction with virtual characters

Author(s): Luca Boldrin; Vanesa Daza; Roberto De Prisco; Sergi Rovira; Saverio Sivo
Published in: International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icsai53574.2021.9664176

VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTS

Author(s): Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Piotr Dura, Hubert Siuzdak, Peter M. C. Harrison, Elisabeth André, Nori Jacoby
Published in: Interspeech'22, 2022
Publisher: Proc. Inerspeech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.15379

Exploring emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space

Author(s): Pol van Rijn; Silvan Mertes; Dominik Schiller; Peter M. C. Harrison; Pauline Larrouy-Maestri; Elisabeth André; Nori Jacoby
Published in: INTERSPEECH'21, Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Proc. Interspeech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.01891

Socially-Aware Personality Adaptation

Author(s): Thomas Kiderle; Hannes Ritschel; Kathrin Janowski; Silvan Mertes; Florian Lingenfelser; Elisabeth Andre
Published in: 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aciiw52867.2021.9666197

A Viewpoint-Driven Approach for Bodily Nonverbal Communication

Author(s): Pierre Raimbaud; Alberto Jovane; Katja Zibrek; Claudio Pacchierotti; Marc Christie; Ludovic Hoyet; Julien Pettré; Anne-Hélène Olivier
Published in: IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3472306.3478351

A trust module for the interaction with virtual characters

Author(s): Boldrin L, Daza V, De Prisco R, Rovira S, Sivo S.
Published in: ICSAI 2021, 7th International Conference on Systems and Informatics, 2022
Publisher: IEEE

Continuous Emotions: Exploring Label Interpolation in Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Face Generation

Author(s): Silvan Mertes ; Florian Lingenfelser ; Thomas Kiderle ; Michael Dietz ; Lama Diab and Elisabeth André
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications - DeLTA, 2021
Publisher: SciTePress
DOI: 10.5220/0010549401320139

Generalized Microscropic Crowd Simulation using Costs in Velocity Space

Author(s): Wouter van Toll, Fabien Grzeskowiak, Axel López, Javad Amirian, Florian Berton; Julien Bruneau; Beatriz Cabrero Daniel; Alberto Jovane; Julien Pettré
Published in: I3D ’20 - ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3d Graphics and Gamers, 2020
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery

A Perceptually-Validated Metric for Crowd TrajectoryQuality Evaluation

Author(s): BEATRIZ CABRERO DANIEL RICARDO MARQUES LUDOVIC HOYET JULIEN PETTRÉ JOSEP BLAT
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3480136

Reactive Virtual Agents: A Viewpoint-Driven Approach for Bodily Nonverbal Communication

Author(s): Pierre Raimbaud; Alberto Jovane; Katja Zibrek; Claudio Pacchierotti; Marc Christie; Ludovic Hoyet; Julien Pettré; Anne-Hélène Olivier
Published in: IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021
Publisher: ACM Digital Library

ZPiE: Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Embedded Systems

Author(s): Xavier Salleras; Vanesa Daza
Published in: Mathematics, 2021, ISSN 2227-7390
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/math9202569

Crowd Navigation in VR: exploring haptic rendering of collisions

Author(s): Florian Berton, Fabien Grzeskowiak, Alexandre Bonneau, Alberto Jovane, Marco Aggravi, Ludovic Hoyet, Anne-Helene Olivier, Claudio Pacchierotti, Julien Pettre
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 1077-2626
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2020.3041341

FORT: Right-proving and Attribute-blinding Self-sovereign Authentication

Author(s): Vanesa Daza; Sergi Rovira Cisterna; Xavier Salleras
Published in: Mathematics, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2227-7390
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.09136

New privacy practices for blockchain software

Author(s): Marta Belles-Munoz; Jordi Baylina; Vanesa Daza; Jose L. Muñoz
Published in: IEEE Software, 2022, ISSN 0740-7459
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/ms.2021.3086718

Interaction Fields: Intuitive Sketch‐based Steering Behaviors for Crowd Simulation

Author(s): A. Colas; W. Toll; K. Zibrek; L. Hoyet; A.‐H. Olivier; J. Pettré
Published in: Computer Graphics Forum, 2020, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.14491

The Effect of Gender and Attractiveness of Motion on Proximity in Virtual Reality

Author(s): Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettre, Rachel McDonnell
Published in: ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Issue 17/4, 2020, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1544-3558
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3419985

Updateable Inner Product Argument with Logarithmic Verifier and Applications

Author(s): Vanesa Daza, Carla Ràfols, Alexandros Zacharakis
Published in: Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2020 - 23rd IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Edinburgh, UK, May 4–7, 2020, Proceedings, Part I, Issue 12110, 2020, Page(s) 527-557, ISBN 978-3-030-45373-2
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45374-9_18

Multimodal Joke Generation and Paralinguistic Personalization for a Socially-Aware Robot

Author(s): Hannes Ritschel, Thomas Kiderle, Klaus Weber, Florian Lingenfelser, Tobias Baur, Elisabeth André
Published in: Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trustworthiness. The PAAMS Collection - 18th International Conference, PAAMS 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, October 7–9, 2020, Proceedings, Issue 12092, 2020, Page(s) 278-290, ISBN 978-3-030-49777-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49778-1_22

Embedded emotions - a data driven approach to learn transferable feature representations from raw speech input for emotion recognition

Author(s): Schiller, Dominik; Mertes, Silvan; André, Elisabeth
Published in: Audio and Speech Processing, Issue 1, 2020
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.14523

Intercategorical Label Interpolation for Emotional Face Generation with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

Author(s): Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Florian Lingenfelser, Thomas Kiderle, Valentin Kroner, Lama Diab, Elisabeth André
Published in: 2022
Publisher: arXiv

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