Proceedings

The 14th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP2017)

• ISSN 2308-975X (Online)
  Editors: Slim Ouni, Chris Davis, Alexandra Jesse, Jonas Beskow
• Publisher: KTH
• August 25-26, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.  

Special session : Remembering Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson

• Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson and the Birth of AVSP – Denis Burnham, with input from Laurie Fais, Ruth Campbell, Kevin Munhall, and Phillip Rubin and Editor-in-Chief, Chris Davis – D1.SP1

S1 – Gaze and Handedness 

• Acoustic cue variability affects eye movement behaviour during non-native speech perception: a GAMM model – Jessie S. Nixon and Catherine T. Best -D1.S1.1 
• The effect of age and hearing loss on partner-directed gaze in a communicative task – Chris Davis,  Jeesun Kim,  Outi Tuomainen and Valerie Hazan – D1.S1.2
• Referential Gaze Makes a Difference in Spoken Language Comprehension: Human Speaker vs. Virtual Agent Listener Gaze – Eva Maria Nunnemann,  Kirsten Bergmann,  Helene Kreysa and Pia Knoeferle – D1.S1.3
• The influence of handedness and pointing direction on deictic gestures and speech interaction: Evidence from motion capture data on Polish counting-out rhymes – Katarzyna Stoltmann and Susanne Fuchs – D1.S1.4
• The Influence of Familial Sinistrality on Audiovisual Speech Perception – Sandhya Vinay and Dawn Behne – D1.S1.5

S2 – AV by machines

• Using deep neural networks to estimate tongue movements from speech face motion – Christian Kroos,  Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen,  Catherine Best and Mark D. Plumbley – D1.S2.1
• End-to-End Audiovisual Fusion with LSTMs – Stavros Petridis,  Yujiang Wang,  Zuwei Li and Maja Pantic – D1.S2.2
• Using visual speech information and perceptually motivated loss functions for binary mask estimation – Danny Websdale and Ben Milner  – D1.S2.3
• Combining Multiple Views for Visual Speech Recognition – Marina Zimmermann,  Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi,  Hazim Kemal Ekenel and Jean-Philippe Thiran  – D1.S2.4
• On the quality of an expressive audiovisual corpus: a case study of acted speech – Slim Ouni,  Sara Dahmani and Vincent Colotte  – D1.S2.5
• Thin slicing to predict viewer impressions of TED Talks – Ailbhe Cullen and Naomi Harte  – D1.S2.6

S3 – Lip reading by machines

• Exploring ROI size in deep learning based lipreading – Alexandros Koumparoulis,  Gerasimos Potamianos,  Youssef Mroueh and Steven J. Rennie  – D1.S3.1
• Towards Lipreading Sentences with Active Appearance Models – George Sterpu and Naomi Harte – D1.S3.2
• Lipreading using deep bottleneck features for optical and depth images Satoshi Tamura,  Koichi Miyazaki and Satoru Hayamizu  – D1.S3.3
• Inner Lips Parameter Estimation based on Adaptive Ellipse Model – Li Liu,  Gang Feng and Denis Beautemps – D1.S3.4

S4 – Prosody and Timing

• Processing of visuo-auditory prosodic information in cochlear-implanted patients deaf patients – Pascal Barone,  Mathieu Marx and Anne Lasfargues-Delannoy – D2.S4.1
• Acoustic features of multimodal prominences: Do visual beat gestures affect verbal pitch accent realization? – Gilbert Ambrazaitis and David House – D2.S4.2
• Contribution of visual rhythmic information to speech perception in noise – Vincent Aubanel,  Cassandra Masters,  Jeesun Kim and Chris Davis – D2.S4.3
• Perceived Audiovisual Simultaneity in Speech by Musicians and Nonmusicians: Preliminary Behavioral and Event-Related Potential (ERP) Findings – Dawn Behne,  Marzieh Sorati and Magnus Alm – D2.S4.4

S5 – Emotion & Attitudes

• The developmental path of multisensory perception of emotion and phoneme in Japanese speakers – Hisako W. Yamamoto,  Misako Kawahara and Akihiro Tanaka – D2.S5.1
• Impact of Culture on the Development of Multisensory Emotion Perception – Misako Kawahara,  Disa Sauter and Akihiro Tanaka – D2.S5.2
• Multisensory Perception of Emotion for Human and Chimpanzee Expressions by Humans – Marina Kawase,  Ikuma Adachi and Akihiro Tanaka – D2.S5.3
• Cross-Language Perception of Audio-visual Attitudinal Expressions – Hansjörg Mixdorff,  Angelika Hönemann,  Albert Rilliard,  Tan Lee and Matthew Ma – D2.S5.4
• Facial activity of attitudinal speech in German – Angelika Hoenemann and Petra Wagner – D2.S5.5

S6 – AV Perception

• The McGurk Effect: Auditory Visual Speech Perception’s Piltdown Man – Dominic Massaro – D2.S6.1
• Impact of early bilingualism on infants’ ability to process talking and non-talking faces: new data from 9-month-old infants – Mathilde Fort and Núria Sebastián-Gallés – D2.S6.2
• Atypical phonemic discrimination but not audiovisual speech integration in children with autism and the broader autism phenotype – Julia Irwin,  Trey Avery,  Jacqueline Turcios,  Lawrence Brancazio,  Barbara Cook and Nicole Landi – D2.S6.3
• Learning to recognize unfamiliar talkers from the word-level dynamics of visual speech – Alexandra Jesse and Paul Saba – D2.S6.4
• Applying the summation model in audiovisual speech perception – Kaisa Tiippana,  Ilmari Kurki and Tarja Peromaa – D2.S6.5