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Divesh Lala

3 accepted papers

2025

Human-Like Embodied AI Interviewer: Employing Android ERICA in Real International Conference

COLING 2025system demonstrations

This paper introduces the human-like embodied AI interviewer which integrates android robots equipped with advanced conversational capabilities, including attentive listening, conversational repairs, and user fluency adaptation. Moreover, it can analyze and present results post-interview. We conduct…

2025

Yeah, Un, Oh: Continuous and Real-time Backchannel Prediction with Fine-tuning of Voice Activity Projection

NAACL 2025long

In human conversations, short backchannel utterances such as “yeah” and “oh” play a crucial role in facilitating smooth and engaging dialogue.These backchannels signal attentiveness and understanding without interrupting the speaker, making their accurate prediction essential for creating more natur…

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2018

Audio-Visual Conversation Analysis by Smart Posterboard and Humanoid Robot

ICASSP 2018accepted

This paper addresses audio-visual signal processing for conversation analysis, which involves multi-modal behavior detection and mental-state recognition. We have investigated prediction of turn-taking by the audience in a poster session from their multi-modal behaviors, and found out that the eye-g…

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