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Automatic prediction of individual performance from "thin slices" of social behavior

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This paper targets the automatic detection of individual performances in group tasks by means of short sequences, "thin slices", of nonverbal behavior. We designed our task as a classification one. We also investigated the relevance of social context in our task and the effectiveness of our feature selection.

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            MM '09: Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia
            October 2009
            1202 pages
            ISBN:9781605586083
            DOI:10.1145/1631272

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