The Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometrical Issue

September 2-12 2006 – Vietri sul Mare (Italy)

Summary of the CONTENTS

1) The amount of verbal and non verbal information in the face-to-face communication;

2) The cross modal analysis of speech, gestures and facial expressions;

3) The socio-cultural differences and the personal traits;

4) The multimodal algorithms and procedures for the speaker identification and verification;

5) MPEG7 audio and video features for cross-modal interaction.

AIMS

The summer school will be build on existing and growing connections between the emerging field of technology devoted to the identification of individuals using biological traits (such as voice, face, fingerprints, and iris recognition) and the fundamentals of verbal and non verbal communication which includes facial expressions, tones of voice, gestures, eye contact, spatial arrangements, patterns of touch, expressive movement, cultural differences, and other "nonverbal" acts. Several further key aspects will be considered, such as the integration of algorithms and procedures for the recognition of emotional states, gesture, speech and facial expressions, in anticipation of the implementation other useful applications such as intelligent avatars and interactive dialog systems.

The school will provide a broad coverage of the major development in the area of the biometrics and in the area of the verbal and non verbal features exploited in face-to-face communication.

Students and researchers from several scientific area such as computer science, physics, psychology, statistics, electrical engineering, philosophy, neuroscience, and communication science are all welcome.