The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs
@article{Biel2013TheYL, title={The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs}, author={Joan-Isaac Biel and Daniel G{\'a}tica-P{\'e}rez}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Multimedia}, year={2013}, volume={15}, pages={41-55} }
Despite an increasing interest in understanding human perception in social media through the automatic analysis of users' personality, existing attempts have explored user profiles and text blog data only. [] Key Result In addition, it constitutes a first attempt to address the task of automatic vlogger personality impression prediction using nonverbal cues, with promising results.
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