Our National Smile

Smile with a smile

Smiling during talking yields speech with higher formants, and hence larger formant dispersion. Previous studies have shown that motor resonance during perception of words related to smiling can activate muscles responsible for the smiling action. If word perception causes smiling activation for such smile-related words, then this motor resonance may occur also during production, resulting in l...

Shaping our National Privacy Research Strategy :

Shaping our National Privacy Research Strategy: A Multi-­‐Disciplinary Perspective Submitted on October 16, 2014 to [email protected] by the following faculty at Carnegie Mellon University Alessandro Acquisti, Yuvraj Agarwal, Lujo Bauer, Avrim Blum, Travis Breaux, Lorrie Cranor, Anupam Datta, Steve Fienberg , Christina Fong, Farnam Jahanian, Limin Jia, Jon Peha, Tuomas Sandholm, Norman Sadeh, a...

The Fight for Our National Intelligence

A winning smile? Smile intensity, physical dominance, and fighter performance.

The smile is perhaps the most widely studied facial expression of emotion, and in this article we examine its status as a sign of physical dominance. We reason, on the basis of prior research, that prior to a physical confrontation, smiles are a nonverbal sign of reduced hostility and aggression, and thereby unintentionally communicate reduced physical dominance. Two studies provide evidence in...

Every Smile is Unique: Landmark-Guided Diverse Smile Generation

Each smile is unique: one person surely smiles in different ways (e.g. closing/opening the eyes or mouth). Given one input image of a neutral face, can we generate multiple smile videos with distinctive characteristics? To tackle this one-to-many video generation problem, we propose a novel deep learning architecture named Conditional MultiMode Network (CMM-Net). To better encode the dynamics o...