Thomas Kiderle
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View article: Multimodal Irony for Virtual Characters
Multimodal Irony for Virtual Characters Open
Humor is an important communicative skill in human interactions. Intelligent virtual agents can leverage it to increase their believability and overall interaction experience. In this paper, we focus on transferring and implementing existi…
View article: The Affective Bar Piano
The Affective Bar Piano Open
Music is a great way of supporting a story. It adds a new layer of affective information and as such substantially increases the listening experience in storytelling scenarios. However, in real-time settings, creating emotionally fitting m…
Intercategorical Label Interpolation for Emotional Face Generation with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks Open
Generative adversarial networks offer the possibility to generate deceptively real images that are almost indistinguishable from actual photographs. Such systems however rely on the presence of large datasets to realistically replicate the…
Implementing Parallel and Independent Movements for a Social Robot's Affective Expressions Open
The design and playback of natural and believable movements is a challenge for social robots. They have several limitations due to their physical embodiment, and sometimes also with regard to their software. Taking the example of the expre…
Socially-Aware Personality Adaptation Open
Emotion and personality are interrelated. A social agent's perceived personality profile influences its affective behavior and vice versa. Having a clear idea and understanding of personality, both from a theoretical perspective and in the…
On the Potential of Modular Voice Conversion for Virtual Agents Open
Virtual Agents are a way to give humans a familiar way to interact with the computer. An important component in the design of virtual agents is the voice with which they express themselves. The voice is not only a mere medium for informati…
Continuous Emotions: Exploring Label Interpolation in Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Face Generation Open
The ongoing rise of Generative Adversarial Networks is opening the possibility to create highly-realistic, natural looking images in various fields of application.One particular example is the generation of emotional human face images that…