Human Behavior Understanding

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2014, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2014. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: social signals; face and affect; motion analysis; and multiparty interactions.

Inhalt
Social Signals.- How Do You Like Your Virtual Agent?: Human-Agent Interaction Experience through Nonverbal Features and Personality Traits.- Human Involvement in E-Coaching: Effects on Effectiveness, Perceived Influence and Trust.- Just the Way You Chat: Linking Personality, Style and Recognizability in Chats.- Face and Affect.- A New Multi-modal Dataset for Human Affect Analysis.- The Role of Color and Contrast in Facial Age Estimation.- Motion Analysis.- Dominant Motion Analysis in Regular and Irregular Crowd Scenes.- Coupling Fall Detection and Tracking in Omnidirectional Cameras.- Multiparty Interactions.- Learning Sparse Prototypes for Crowd Perception via Ensemble Coding Mechanisms.- Dyadic Interaction Detection from Pose and Flow.