REPORT Hung_Idiap-RR-65-2008/IDIAP Identifying Dominant People in Meetings from Audio-Visual Sensors Hung, Hayley Gatica-Perez, Daniel EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2008/Hung_Idiap-RR-65-2008.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-65-2008 2008 Idiap August 2008 This paper provides an overview of the area of automated dominance estimation in group meetings. We describe research in social psychology and use this to explain the motivations behind suggested automated systems. With the growth in availability of conversational data captured in meeting rooms, it is possible to investigate how multi-sensor data allows us to characterize non-verbal behaviors that contribute towards dominance. We use an overview of our own work to address the challenges and opportunities in this area of research.