Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Social Robot Mediation: Expected Behavior and Deployment Constraints

arXiv:2609.28317 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/acano15/MM-VAP

Terminology

• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cross-Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Latent Representation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Representations — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• LoRA Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Voice Activity Projection: Self-supervised Learning of Turn-taking Events
• Voice Activity Projection Model with Multimodal Encoders
• Visual Cues Enhance Predictive Turn-Taking for Two-Party Human Interaction
• Multilingual Dyadic Interaction Corpus NoXi+J: Toward Understanding Asian-European Non-verbal Cultural Characteristics and their Influences on Engagement

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