At this year's conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction our colleagues Tobias Hallmen, Silvan Mertes, and Dominik Schiller participated in the Affective Vocal Bursts Competition.

The ACII Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition is focused on understanding multiple affective dimensions of vocal bursts: laughs, gasps, cries, screams, and many other non-linguistic vocalizations central to the expression of emotion and to human communication more generally. 

In the A-VB Type Task, where it was the goal to automatically differntiate between different kinds of vocal bursts, the the team managed to reach the first place.

We sincerely congratulate our colleagues on their success!