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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…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
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…

Cited by 0SourceScholar