As part of the visual part of ARIA-VALUSPA, a new facial point localisation system has been developed, which builds on a novel theoretical framework, and attains state-of-the-art results in annotated benchmarks. The facial point localisation system is the very first […]
At the joint seminar at the Leibniz – Centre of Computer Sciences, Dagstuhl Castle, Wadern, the ARIA VALUSPA project met up with the EU project KRISTINA to exchange their insights, progress, promising approaches, and create new (research) friendships. The Leibniz […]
2017 started off well for the ARIA-VALUSPA project with the release of ARIA-VALUSPA Platform 2.0 (AVP 2.0), the second public release of the integrated behaviour analysis, dialogue management, and behaviour generation components developed as part of this EU Horizon 2020 […]
Catherine Pelachaud received the title Dr. Honoris Causa of the University of Geneva during Dies Academicus on October 14th 2016. The ceremony took place at the University of Geneva. The day before Catherine Pelachaud gave a seminar entitled “Interacting with […]
“Ask Alice: An Artificial Retrieval of Information Agent” The work of the ARIA-VALUSPA project was demonstrated on the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction – ICMI 2016 at Tokyo, Japan.
Human communication is rich, varied, and often ambiguous. This reflects the complexity and subjectivity of our lives. For thousands of years, art, music, drama and story telling have helped us understand, come to terms with, and express the complexities of […]
On January 2016 the ARIA-VALUSPA team presented their integrated system to a camera crew which captured the first interactions with the avatar (based on the story “Alice in Wonderland”). This first Milestone will be followed by a next public version […]
In the Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2016 and after, Gartner identified artificial intelligence and digital assistants as key to developing digital business opportunities. The market of Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) is growing considerably. Having simple tools to create […]
The ARIA – VALUSPA team participated on the eNTERFACE ‘ 16 at Twente, Netherlands. Dr. J. Wagner presented a tutorial on Aria’s underlying Social Signal Interpretation Framework SSI: “Working with the Social Signals Interpretation (SSI) framework”. More information about the […]
A reporter from the WDR (West German Broadcasting Cologne) visited the Lab for Human-Centered Multimedia at Augsburg University, and Johannes Wagner presented the Alice agent to him. Alice does not just answer the user’s questions about “Alice in Wonderland”, but […]