Recent progress in deep learning has been accompanied by a growing concern for whether models are fair for users, with equally good performance across different demographics [26, 17]. In computer vision research, such questions are relevant to face detection and the related task of face attribute detection, among others [15]. We measure race and gender inclusion in the context of smiling detect...

The goal of the current studies was to examine perception-action interactions in a socially relevant domain. Social interactions are based on a mutual understanding of the emotions and actions of others. We assume that the perception of emotional actions also stimulates a parallel action preparation in the perceiver, underlining the common coding theory. We report two experiments aimed to exami...

A new measuring system to judge facial aesthetics in young Caucasians is presented. The system uses sets of three photographs (one frontal, one three-quarter smiling, and one lateral) as a stimulus. Scores are performed on a visual analogue scale (VAS) with separate sets of reference photographs for girls and boys. The choice of the reference photographs was based on a panel evaluation of facia...

Smiling is a visible expression and an audible one too when it is synchronous with speech. Very few studies have documented the perceptual prosodic cues associated with perceived smiling speech. The first aim of this paper is to study the perception of smiled-speech according to the listeners' gender. The reaction time and the intensity of the perceived smiled-speech were also investigated. The...

BACKGROUND Individuals with Angelman syndrome appear strongly motivated by social contact, but there have been few studies that have examined the relationship between sociability and familiarity. In this study we compared social behaviour in Angelman syndrome when in contact with mothers and strangers. METHODS We systematically manipulated adult familiarity, eye contact and speech to examine ...

While the basic nature of irony is saying one thing and communicating the opposite, it may also serve additional social and emotional functions, such as projecting humor or anger. Emoticons often accompany irony in computer-mediated communication, and have been suggested to increase enjoyment of communication. In the current study, we aimed to examine online emotional responses to ironic versus...