Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues COST Action
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the COST Action 2102 and euCognition supported international school on Multimodal Signals: "Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues" held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in April 2008. The 3
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Anna Esposito Amir Hussain Maria Marinaro Raffaele Martone (Eds.)
Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues COST Action 2102 and euCognition International School Vietri sul Mare, Italy, April 21-26, 2008 Revised Selected and Invited Papers
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Anna Esposito Second University of Naples, Department of Psychology and IIASS, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies Via G. Pellegrino 19, 84019 Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy E-mail: [email protected] Amir Hussain University of Stirling Department of Computing Science & Mathematics Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK E-mail: [email protected] Maria Marinaro University of Salerno, Department of Physics Via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy and IIASS, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Raffaele Martone Second University of Naples Computer Engineering & Informatics Department Via Roma, 29, 81031 Aversa (CE), Italy E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2009921491 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2.7, I.2, H.5, H.4, K.4, K.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
This volume brings together the peer-reviewed contributions of the participants at the COST 2102 and euCognition International Training School on “Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues” held in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, April 22 –26, 2008. The school was sponsored by COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, www.cost.esf.org) in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for disseminating the advances of the research activities developed within Action 2102: “Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal
