The MAHNOB Laughter database

• Published in: Image and vision computing Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 186 - 202
• Main Authors: Petridis, Stavros, Martinez, Brais, Pantic, Maja
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.02.2013
• Subjects: Audiovisual; Audiovisual automatic laughter–speech discrimination; Cameras; Classification; Discrimination; Laughter; Speech; Thermal; Visual; Audiovisual; Database; Laughter; Audiovisual automatic laughter–speech discrimination; Thermal

Laughter is clearly an audiovisual event, consisting of the laughter vocalization and of facial activity, mainly around the mouth and sometimes in the upper face. A major obstacle in studying the audiovisual aspects of laughter is the lack of suitable data. For this reason, the majority of past rese...