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# Abstract The ability to communicate effectively in front of an audience is an indispensable skill, where nonverbal communication accounts for nearly 65% of the transmitted information. However, in higher education, the evaluation of these skills has traditionally relied on direct human observation, a subjective process prone to biases and logistically difficult to scale. To bridge this gap, this Bachelor's Thesis presents the design and implementation of AIMLaS (Artificial Intelligence Multimodal Labeling System), a system developed to provide the educational community with objective and actionable feedback about delivering oral presentations. On a technical level, AIMLaS is a multimodal architecture that processes video sequences to extract behavioral biometrics from videos of oral presentations delivered by students, such as pose estimation and gaze direction, using computer vision algorithms. To enable its real-time execution, a custom in-memory pipeline engine has been designed to minimize latency. One of the fundamental contributions of the system is its hybrid spatiotemporal alignment module, which synchronizes the speaker's actions with the supporting slides, achieving an accuracy of 98.3% through the combination of geometric descriptors, semantic embeddings, and dynamic programming. Based on this synchronization, the system employs Large Language Models (LLMs) conditioned by predefined statistical matrices to transform behavioral patterns into a contextualized pedagogical evaluation. This entire processing flow is based on the Privacy by Design paradigm, executing the vision analysis locally and automatically anonymizing documents before any cloud inference. To guarantee its applicability in authentic scenarios, AIMLaS has been built and evaluated using real classroom monitoring of student oral presentations from the "Engineering and Society" 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 courses at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The system exports the generated data in formats directly interoperable with manual annotation tools, proving to generate consistent analyses. Ultimately, the architecture represents a technical, economically viable, and privacy-respecting solution, designed to scale the training of public speaking skills in academic production environments. # 1. Introduction Currently, the ability to communicate effectively in front of an audience is an indispensable skill in both the academic and professional fields. Educational psychology literature establishes that nonverbal communication accounts for nearly 65% [@Birdwhistell1970] of the information transmitted in a face-to-face interaction. Variables such as body openness, eye contact, and stage anxiety management are decisive; however, public speaking has historically lacked objective and continuous metrics. In higher education, providing feedback for these skills presents a considerable logistical challenge. This is because the process for generating feedback has traditionally relied on direct human observation, a subjective process that is difficult to scale and prone to cognitive biases or evaluative fatigue [@Christiansen2020]. It is unusual for a student to receive a detailed breakdown of their nonverbal behavior, such as the recurrence of defensive postures, alongside a semantic description of the context in which those mistakes occurred, making it difficult to identify specific areas for improvement. The main motivation behind this Bachelor's Thesis stems from the need to bridge this gap using Artificial Intelligence and computer vision. This approach aligns with recent research demonstrating the viability of utilizing these technologies to extract objective behavioral metrics in educational environments [@Dominguez2024], and the project was conceived to provide the educational community with a system that translates analog behavior into formative and actionable observations, ensuring privacy through a Privacy by Design approach [@Cavoukian2009]. To address this issue, the AIMLaS (_Artificial Intelligence Multimodal Labeling System_) system is presented. AIMLaS is a presentation video processing system, both for real-time and recorded sessions, that extracts behavioral biometrics using neural networks, synchronizes these actions with supporting visual material (slides), and generates an automated pedagogical evaluation through the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) [@Kasneci2023]. Furthermore, it integrates into the ecosystem of the GHIA research group (Advanced Interactive Tools Group, https://vghia.ii.uam.es/) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and uses the laboratory's proprietary data formats to communicate with its other tools, which will be detailed in Chapter [3](#SEC:CONTEXTO_IN). ## 1.1. Objectives The main objective of this Bachelor's Thesis is to design and implement the AIMLaS automated labeling system, with the purpose of providing objective insights and personalized feedback through the multimodal analysis of oral presentations. To achieve this goal, the following specific objectives have been established: - **Study the state of the art and existing technologies:** - Review current Oral Presentation Automated Feedback (OPAFs) solutions. - Analyze computer vision technologies and the use of generative Artificial Intelligence applied to educational feedback. - **Understand and explore the data and the working environment:** - Analyze the SOPHIAS multimodal corpus, explained in Section [3.2](#SEC:ORIGEN_DATOS), to understand behavioral patterns and labels within authentic classroom monitoring. - Familiarize with the manual annotation tools and the research group's logging formats, such as HuMLaS and LOGGE, detailed in Section [3.3](#SEC:HERRAMIENTAS). - **Design and implement a custom processing architecture (_pipeline_):** - Build a custom in-memory pipeline engine to process multimodal data in a modular fashion, dynamically routing information and minimizing latency. - **Guarantee privacy:** Ensure that biometric processing is performed locally and develop automated anonymization programs for supporting materials before any interaction with cloud models. - **Develop the computer vision analysis module:** - Incorporate pose estimation and facial tracking models to translate the speaker's behavior into continuous temporal labels. - **Automate pedagogical feedback generation:** - Utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) guided by predefined statistical evaluation matrices to transform telemetry data into constructive formative comments. - Build a hybrid mechanism (geometric and semantic) that synchronizes video frames with their corresponding slides. - **Ensure interoperability and apply the system to real-world case studies:** - Guarantee that the output formats generated by AIMLaS are fully compatible with the research group's tools (exporting to LOGGE format for direct use in HuMLaS). - Validate the technical performance of the tool by applying it practically to an authentic student corpus. - **Evaluate the technical performance and viability of the system:** - Quantify the accuracy of the developed algorithms. - Analyze the latency of the in-memory pipeline engine to validate information routing efficiency. - Study the economic viability and scalability of the project by calculating the operational inference cost of the LLMs per analyzed student. ## 1.2. Document Structure To present the development of the AIMLaS system in a clear and logical manner, this Bachelor's Thesis is composed of the following chapters: - **The first chapter** (Introduction) presents the motivation behind the project, the current problems in generating public speaking feedback, and the general and specific objectives pursued. - **The second chapter** (State of the Art) provides a comprehensive review of recent academic literature, analyzing current technologies applied to the automatic creation of presentation feedback, processing architectures, and the use of generative models in education. - **The third chapter** (Context and Case Studies) describes the starting point of the project, introducing the tools developed by the GHIA group, the data formats used, and the video sets onto which the system has been applied. - **The fourth chapter** (Design) justifies the key architectural decisions of the project, detailing the conceptualization of the pipeline engine, hybrid biometric extraction strategies, and the pedagogical design of the feedback generation module. - **The fifth chapter** (Development and Implementation) delves into the structures utilized during development, explaining how the different subsystems were constructed and connected. - **The sixth chapter** (Testing) outlines the validation methods applied to guarantee the correct operation of the system, covering everything from memory stability to the qualitative verification of feedback. - **The seventh chapter** (Conclusions and Future Work) summarizes the achievements reached following the system's development and proposes potential pathways for expansion and technological improvement in subsequent iterations. Additionally, the following appendices are included: - **Appendix A** shows examples of artifacts produced by the feedback module, including the description extracted from a presentation, its prompt, and the corresponding feedback. - **Appendix B** describes how the dynamic detection system was designed and tested, which was ultimately discarded due to the small size of the training dataset. # 2. State of the Art The development of systems capable of analyzing academic presentations has evolved significantly over the last decade, transitioning from traditional human evaluation to Oral Presentation Automated Feedback (OPAF) [@Ochoa2024] systems. This chapter critically reviews the current scientific literature, structuring the state of the art into three fundamental dimensions: existing analysis systems and their limitations, underlying computer vision technologies, and the application of generative artificial intelligence in the educational field under privacy constraints. This review serves as a foundation to identify the technological gaps that AIMLaS aims to resolve. ## 2.1. Oral Presentation Automated Feedback (OPAF) Systems The evolution of capture and analysis architectures in OPAFs reflects a historical trade-off between the richness of extracted biometric data and the feasibility of its deployment in real-world settings. ### 2.1.1. Classical Prototypes and Hardware Dependency Pioneering research in multimodal analysis frequently depended on intrusive hardware configurations. Classical and highly referenced works, such as the _Presentation Trainer_ [@schneider2015presentation] or the _Cicero_ project [@batrinca2013cicero], relied on depth sensors like _Kinect_, microphone arrays, and physical markers to achieve accurate spatial capture of the speaker's posture, gestures, and positioning. While these studies laid the theoretical foundation regarding which nonverbal metrics correlate with successful public speaking, the academic community quickly documented their main limitation: high logistical friction. The dependency on volumetric sensors and closed ecosystems confined these solutions to laboratory environments, preventing their mass adoption and scalability in conventional classrooms. ### 2.1.2. Contemporary Commercial Solutions and Unimodality With the increasing accessibility of artificial intelligence, the market has shifted toward purely software-based solutions, integrated into mass-adoption platforms such as _Microsoft Speaker Coach_ [@msspeakercoach] or _Yoodli_ [@yoodli2024]. These tools operate by processing the acoustic signal to transcribe it into text in real time. However, a dissection of the literature reveals critical pedagogical weaknesses in these systems: - **Visual Blindness:** They operate under a unimodal paradigm (audio/text), ignoring nonverbal communication (body language, proxemics, and eye contact), which constitutes the primary axis of persuasion. - **Semantic and Visual Disconnection:** They penalize reading through text matching but are incapable of accurately determining whether the speaker is actually looking at the slides or if there is merely an accidental coincidence between what is said and what is written. - **Risk of Mechanical Delivery:** By focusing exclusively on penalizing raw metrics, such as excessive filler words or pacing, they can induce students to adopt a robotic public speaking style that lacks naturalness. The state of the art evidences a clear gap between experimental prototypes (multimodal but unscalable) and commercial tools (accessible but unimodal). ## 2.2. Computer Vision and Image Processing Technologies To overcome hardware limitations without sacrificing the richness of body analysis, recent research relies on advanced computer vision models, facing significant challenges in feature extraction and visual context tracking. ### 2.2.1. Feature Extraction and Pose Estimation The state of the art in Human Pose Estimation is led by highly complex deep learning frameworks such as MMPose [@mmpose2020] or OpenPose [@cao2019openpose]. These architectures offer millimeter precision in the topological extraction of the human body, but their extreme computational demand requires the use of dedicated GPUs, hindering ubiquitous deployment on standard portable devices. Faced with computational brute force, other investigations opt for ecosystems optimized for edge devices (_Edge AI_). Architectures such as MediaPipe [@lugaresi2019mediapipe] do not seek absolute precision, but rather an optimal engineering design choice. Its selection is justified by offering real-time inference using exclusively the CPU, in addition to presenting greater resistance to lighting and racial biases compared to older models. This optimization is vital for the viability of AIMLaS. ### 2.2.2. Slide Tracking and Context Understanding where the speaker directs their attention requires dynamically tracking the projected slides, a critical capability that is absent in current systems. Traditionally, computer vision has relied on geometric algorithms such as SIFT (_Scale-Invariant Feature Transform_) [@lowe2004distinctive] or SURF [@bay2006surf]. However, in real classrooms, these methods collapse under speaker occlusions, projector glare, and framing changes. To overcome this geometric fragility, recent research suggests integrating multimodal models, such as CLIP [@radford2021learning], and temporal heuristics. Precisely, one of the main contributions of AIMLaS is solving this continuous tracking that other tools ignore. The system achieves this through a custom-designed hybrid algorithm: it combines spatial rectification (homography) and CLIP semantics with Viterbi's probabilistic memory, guaranteeing an uninterrupted visual context throughout the presentation. ## 2.3. Generative AI and Privacy in Educational Feedback ### 2.3.1. Language Models and Human-AI Collaboration The ultimate goal of extracting multimodal metrics is to generate formative feedback. Historically, OPAFs offered numerical dashboards that proved overwhelming for the student. Currently, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized this field. Recent pedagogical research frames their use under the paradigm of _Human-AI Collaboration_. In this model, the AI system does not act as an autonomous judge, but rather as a conversational agent that processes telemetry data based on predefined institutional rubrics. The literature validates that feedback generated by conditioned models achieves levels of empathy, adaptability, and pedagogical quality comparable to the human standard, promoting constructive reflection. ### 2.3.2. Privacy by Design and Local Anonymization The integration of cloud-hosted LLMs introduces severe cybersecurity risks. Technical literature warns about the susceptibility of these models to inference attacks or the inadvertent memorization of confidential information [@carlini2021extracting]. In the educational context, sending biometric data or transcriptions containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to third-party APIs violates regulatory frameworks such as the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). To resolve this dilemma, the state of the art advocates for Privacy by Design architectures. This justifies the implementation of edge computing strategies (_Edge Computing_), where video processing and the anonymization phase are executed strictly locally on the user's machine, purging documents before any transmission to the cloud. ## 2.4. Comparison of Solutions As a synthesis, Table [2.1](#TB:COMP_OPAFS) presents a comparison of the three major current paradigms in the field of OPAFs. As can be observed, there is no solution that maximizes all metrics simultaneously. While commercial solutions offer unmatched scalability by operating in the cloud, they severely sacrifice user privacy and the richness of nonverbal communication. For its part, AIMLaS seeks an optimal equilibrium point: democratizing multimodal analysis and maintaining privacy by design, accepting in return the need for devices equipped with commercial GPUs for local inference.

Criterion	Classical Prototypes	Commercial Solutions	AIMLaS
Examples	Presentation Trainer, Cicero	Speaker Coach, Yoodli	-
Modality	Multimodal (Physical/Spatial)	Unimodal (Audio/Text)	Expandable Multimodal Support
Hardware	Volumetric sensors (Kinect)	Basic device + Internet	Local Processing + LLM API
Semantics	Low or None	Very low (Text matching)	High (Visual-LLM alignment)
Privacy	High (Isolated environment)	Low (Cloud processing)	High (Local + Anonymization)
Scalability	Very low (In vitro)	Maximum (SaaS)	Medium-High

Table 2.1: Comparison of the different approaches of Oral Presentation Automated Feedback systems.

# 3. Context and Case Studies This chapter presents the development and validation environment for the AIMLaS system. To guarantee the real-world applicability of the tool, the design and testing were not conducted in controlled laboratory settings, but rather on data collected in authentic face-to-face educational scenarios. Below, we detail the origin of this data, the characteristics of the analyzed sessions, and the human annotation tools used as a reference (_Ground Truth_) throughout the project. This work is conceptually and operationally framed within MOSAIC-F (_Multimodal Learning Analytics, Observations, Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and Collaborative assessments_) [@MOSAIC-F], a data-driven methodological framework that integrates Multimodal Learning Analytics (MMLA) [@Blikstein2013], observations, sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), and collaborative assessments to generate personalized feedback on student learning activities. This framework consists of four fundamental phases: 1. **Peer and Teacher Assessment:** Conducted through the use of standardized rubrics. 2. **Multimodal Data Collection:** Gathering information through various sensors (cameras, microphone, eyetracker, etc.) during presentations. 3. **Personalized Feedback Generation:** Processing the collected or AI-generated data using generative artificial intelligence. 4. **Self-Assessment and Visualization:** The student analyzes their own performance using the visual tools provided by the framework. It is precisely within the third phase of MOSAIC-F that AIMLaS is integrated, processing captured metrics to synthesize data-driven observations, such as postures, eye contact, and nervousness levels, which complement human evaluations and conclusions. AIMLaS is designed under a paradigm of portability and extensibility, allowing the integration of new data sources with arbitrary formats by adding just a few lines of code. In its current version, the system is capable of ingesting front-view presentation videos synchronized with contextual events, such as the structural phases of the presentation (introduction, conclusions, Q&A session, etc.) and specific behavioral annotations, such as the use of filler words, slide changes, or visual distractions. ## 3.1. Tools Used For an artificial intelligence system to generate reliable feedback, it is essential to have a high-quality human reference standard to calibrate the algorithms. In parallel with the creation of AIMLaS, the GHIA research group has developed HuMLaS (_Human Multimodal Labeling System_), a tool designed for the manual review and annotation of oral presentations. HuMLaS allows human annotators to review video recordings, inspect associated behavioral events, and refine labels directly on an interactive timeline. Leveraging precise video timestamps, analysts can move frame-by-frame to accurately adjust the start and end of observable behaviors (for example, the exact instant when the speaker begins reading notes or diverts their gaze), as illustrated in Figure [3.1](#FIG:HUMLAS_UI).

**Figure 3.1:** Screenshot of the HuMLaS graphical user interface. The image shows the interactive timeline with overlaid behavioral labels.

Both the automated output from AIMLaS and the manual annotations from HuMLaS are communicated and stored using the LOGGE file format [@becerra2023], a standard developed by the GHIA group. This format structures data by defining each event based on its start timestamp, end timestamp, semantic label, and additional annotations, enabling direct interoperability between the machine and the human analyst. Additionally, all human and automated labels are in English to facilitate collaboration with the rest of the research community. The complete list, along with their types, can be found in Table [3.1](#TB:ETIQUETAS_ACTIVIDADES).

Type	Internal Label	Explained Meaning
Activity (sustained over time)	`Introduction`	Introduction Phase
	`Outline`	Outline Presentation
	`Presentation`	Body of the Presentation
	`Conclusion`	Conclusion Phase
	`References`	Bibliography Section
	`Read_notes`	Reading Notes (tablet or paper)
	`Look_screen`	Looking at Computer Screen
	`Nervous_movement`	Nervous Movement
	`Ask`	Audience Question
	`Answer`	Speaker Answer
Event (momentary)	`Slide_change`	Slide Change
	`Slide_animation`	Slide Animation
	`Voice_filler`	Voice Filler
	`End_presentation`	Presentation End

Table 3.1: List of labels for the talk structure and momentary events, including their meaning.

## 3.2. Data Origin The automated labeling system has been developed and evaluated primarily on the SOPHIAS (_Student Oral Presentation monitoring for Holistic Insights & Analytics using Sensors_) database [@SOPHIAS]. This multimodal corpus contains 12 hours of oral presentation recordings captured under real classroom conditions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, preserving the spontaneity, stage pressure, and genuine interaction patterns of the students. Additionally, it includes processed data files, such as LOGGE files, gaze estimation CSVs obtained via the RetinaFace framework [@deng2019retinaface], and `webcam.csv` files for synchronization. To narrow down the case study for this Bachelor's Thesis, 38 individual presentations were selected from SOPHIAS, corresponding to those delivered by final-year students of the Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering in the course "Engineering and Society" (INGSOC 2024/2025). In these presentations, students were required to present technical topics for 10 minutes, followed by a 5-minute question and answer session. The primary data source for AIMLaS is the front-view captured during these sessions, recorded using high-definition webcams at 20 frames per second ($1920\times1080$). The other processed files provided by the corpus are also used. Additionally, to validate the viability of the system in a continuous production environment, recordings of oral presentations from the subsequent student cohort (INGSOC 2025/2026) were processed, generating automated feedback that was delivered directly to the students for their formative improvement. ## 3.3. Working Environment Throughout this project, and unless explicitly specified otherwise, all tests, evaluations, and performance measurements have been carried out on a single computer system. The technical specifications of this computer, which has served as the baseline environment for development and experimentation, are detailed in Table [3.2](#TB:ESPECIFICACIONES_PC).

Table 3.2: Technical specifications of the computer used as the baseline environment for testing and measurements.

# 4. Design This chapter analyzes the design decisions made during the creation of AIMLaS, including the trade-offs and motivation behind each choice. To facilitate the understanding of the system as a whole, Figure [4.1](#FIG:DISENNO_SISTEMA) shows the general architecture of AIMLaS. It illustrates the flow of information from the ingestion of multimodal data sources (video, supporting material, and manual annotations), through the structured processing engine in pipelines, to the generation of pedagogical feedback and interoperability with HuMLaS.

**Figure 4.1:** General architecture of the AIMLaS system. It shows the data flow from the input sources, through the analysis and feedback modules, to the generation of metrics and pedagogical results.

## 4.1. Pipeline Module Given the experimental nature of the project and the need to iterate, test, and coordinate different processing blocks, the implementation of a pipeline-based architecture presents itself as the optimal method to guarantee the required modularity and flexibility. During the design phase, a review of various families of pipeline frameworks available in the modern Python ecosystem was carried out. Data-oriented workflow orchestrators such as Apache Airflow [@airflow] and Dagster [@dagster], distributed processing engines such as Dask [@dask] and Ray [@ray], and lighter functional libraries such as toolz [@toolz] or RxPy [@rxpy] were considered. However, none of these options proved to be fully satisfactory for the project's constraints. Traditional orchestrators are designed for large ETL workloads or data platforms, so the overhead they introduce (due to their dependency on heavy schedulers and external databases) is unacceptable for achieving real-time system performance. On the other hand, parallel computing tools like Dask or Ray incur latencies derived from data serialization between processes, while lightweight functional approaches lack advanced mechanisms to automatically manage and retain historical data states. This technological gap prompted the creation of a proprietary solution: an in-memory pipeline engine, with enough utility and expressiveness to topologically adapt the system as needed, guaranteeing a minimum level of latency. Table [4.1](#TB:COMP_PIPELINES) below shows a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each evaluated paradigm against the designed system:

Table 4.1: Comparison of pipeline architectures to evaluate their real-time feasibility.

### 4.1.1. Custom System Architecture To overcome the limitations of existing tools and meet the requirements of real-time experimentation, an engine based on a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) was implemented. Its main characteristics are: - **Modular nodes:** Logic is encapsulated in layers with a unified interface. The execution mode is defined abstractly, allowing the engine to transparently apply the most efficient execution strategy for the layer. - **Declarative dependency injection:** A declarative grammar is used to define data access (current state, history by index, or temporal window), resolving and validating dependencies statically during initialization. - **Fine-grained task scheduling:** The engine analyzes the dependency graph to concurrently execute layers whose data is already available. This eliminates synchronization barriers across entire levels and reduces total latency. - **Intelligent memory retention:** Through reverse propagation on the graph, the maximum temporary storage requirements per output are calculated, pruning the history automatically at the end of each cycle. - **Integrated instrumentation:** The system collects execution latency metrics per layer, allowing native identification of bottlenecks without relying on external tools. - **Composition and hot-swapping:** The engine allows swapping or removing layers at runtime while preserving the shared history, in addition to supporting recursive composition to nest entire pipelines as if they were a single simple layer. The resulting engine has been published on PyPI as `rapidpipe` [@rapidpipe] (installable with `pip install rapidpipe==1.0.0` in Python $\ge$ 3.11). It is also compatible with the `uv` package manager [@astral_uv_2024], used for the build, via `uv add rapidpipe==1.0.0`. Any later version will be considered a derivative and falls outside the scope of this Bachelor's Thesis. ### 4.1.2. Visualization Module To verify that data routing and historical dependency resolution are managed correctly, an interactive visualization module for the pipeline system has been designed. This component exports the internal architecture to a graph-based web representation that avoids overlaps and maintains structural readability. The design automatically organizes the nodes to offer a natural and intuitive reading from left to right, from data sources to the final layers. Furthermore, the edges are interactive and reflect the exact temporal configuration of the dependencies required by each layer (such as historical indices or windows of seconds). ## 4.2. Analysis Module The core of the project is the analysis module, whose objective is to transform raw video sequences and biometric data into a series of labels describing the speaker's behavior and body language. Since nonverbal communication is an analog, continuous phenomenon that is highly dependent on the physical context, the design of this module required robust strategies to digitize and categorize these actions accurately. A foundamental pillar in the design of this module is Privacy by Design. All processing, from video capture to the inference of Machine Learning models, is performed strictly locally. Since there is no transfer of biometric data to external servers or third-party clouds, the system guarantees perfect compliance with the GDPR [@rgpd2016]. ### 4.2.1. Data Ingestion and Source Abstraction The first design challenge was data ingestion. In a Computer Vision development environment, video rendering and heavy neural network inference at each iteration drastically slow down algorithm calibration. To solve this, data input was designed to be completely agnostic. The system is capable of bifurcating its data source: it can ingest a real-time video stream, applying pose estimation models on the fly, or it can consume precalculated position files (CSV files with previously extracted spatial coordinates). From the perspective of the subsequent analytical layers, the data origin is irrelevant. This architectural decision proved vital for the project, as it allowed iterating, fine-tuning gesture thresholds, and training predictive models on historical coordinates at a speed orders of magnitude faster than conventional video processing. Additionally, a temporal normalization was implemented in the ingestion. Video sources can have variable frame rates (FPS). The module was designed with a synchronization subsystem that downsamples or interpolates the input stream to a constant frequency (20 FPS). This ensures that the time windows of the detection algorithms work consistently regardless of the capture hardware. ### 4.2.2. Spatial Extraction and Biometric Normalization To interpret body language, the system relies on the extraction of a two-dimensional skeleton (landmarks or reference points) of the speaker. However, coordinates (pixels) lack direct analytical value, since they vary drastically depending on camera resolution, the subject's distance from the lens, and their specific morphology. Therefore, a geometric normalization engine was designed to process the skeleton before any algorithmic operation. The main design decisions at this stage were: - **Scale invariance:** All calculated distances between extremities are divided by an invariant reference pattern of the subject: their shoulder width. This ensures that crossing arms yields the same numeric detection whether the subject is one meter or five meters away from the camera. - **Relative reference systems:** Instead of using absolute coordinates, local reference points are established, such as the center of the torso or waist height. Thus, determining if hands are "down" does not depend on where the user is on the screen, but on the relative position of their wrists with respect to their own hips.

**Figure 4.2:** Screenshot of the pose visualization obtained via MediaPipe in an INGSOC 2025/2026 presentation. The labels extracted in this frame and their confidences can be seen in the upper right corner.

### 4.2.3. Hybrid Detection Engine Human behavior analysis cannot be solved with a single family of algorithms. A static gesture, such as crossed arms, has a very different nature from a dynamic behavior, such as trembling due to nervousness. Therefore, the detection engine was designed with a hybrid architecture that combines two approaches: #### Heuristic Detection (Rule-Based) For clear geometric postures (crossed arms, hands on hips, pointing, etc.), a heuristic approach based on fuzzy logic was chosen. To avoid ambiguities, body openness is first defined as the spatial separation of the arms relative to the torso. Instead of establishing strict binary thresholds that cause flickering in detection, the system calculates a continuous "confidence level." Thus, openness is evaluated mathematically on a spectrum from -1 (totally closed or blocking the torso) to 1 (totally open), penalizing actions like crossing arms and rewarding the lateral expansion of the skeleton. This deterministic approach is extremely fast, interpretable, and allows for simple adjustments without the need to retrain models. #### Dynamic Detection (Machine Learning) For purely temporal behaviors, such as "Nervous Movement," the system was designed in a modular and easily expandable manner. Due to time constraints and dataset limitations, it was finally decided to discard this section, so it will not be expanded upon in the body of the Bachelor's Thesis. More details can be found in Appendix [B](#CAP:DYNAMIC_DETECTION_REF). ### 4.2.4. Gaze Detection Gaze direction is a crucial indicator of the speaker's connection with their environment. For _a posteriori_ video processing (not in real time), where the most accurate detection possible is sought, the RetinaFace framework is used. The initial code to execute it was provided by the BiometricsAI group (https://www.uam.es/uam/investigacion/grupos-de-investigacion/detalle/f1-485) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and it is the same one that provides the gaze estimation data supplied by the SOPHIAS corpus. The GHIA group adapted the code for their specific use case. From it, facial estimation models provide pure Euler angles: _Yaw_ (horizontal panning), _Pitch_ (vertical tilt), and _Roll_ (rotation). The design for translating these angles into semantic metrics (looking at the audience, at the slides, at the ceiling, etc.) faced the problem of boundary zones. It was decided to implement a piecewise linear interpolation system complemented by a priority tree. Instead of assigning a single direction in a binary fashion, the system distributes 100% probability among multiple targets. As the speaker's head turns, the percentage of "Looking at Audience" smoothly decays while that of "Looking at Slides" or "Looking at Wall" increases, emulating human attention transitions much more naturally. Furthermore, precedence rules were defined to resolve logical overlaps. For example, the area corresponding to the slides takes priority over a simple turn toward the wall, since in most cases looking at the wall is simply a transitional instant toward the slides. ### 4.2.5. Full Analysis Pipeline Figure [4.3](#FIG:PIPELINE_ANALISIS) shows the full analysis pipeline with all 17 layers (`Layer`) involved, with the system configured to: - Display the edited video (with overlays of the extractions and the pose) while processing. - Read landmarks for the gaze from a saved CSV file. - Read the pose from a saved CSV file. - Save the extracted labels into a JSON file. Different system configurations will generate different pipelines. For example, if no data source were provided for the pose, the CSV reading layer would be removed, and instead, an extraction layer using MediaPipe and a layer to save the obtained poses to a CSV for use in future iterations would appear. Since the output name is the same ("poses") and the next layer does not reference any previous layer, but only uses the most recent value called "poses", no other changes would need to be made to the code.

**Figure 4.3:** Visualization of the analysis pipeline, generated by the pipeline module.

### 4.2.6. Postprocessing and Signal Cleaning The nature of inferences generated by Computer Vision models, frame by frame, tends to be inherently noisy, presenting rapid fluctuations or "micro-detections" that do not correspond to actual changes in the speaker's behavioral intent. Small occlusions, momentary lighting failures, or fast transitions cause split-second false positives that would contaminate the final metrics. To guarantee that the exported data reflects actual behavioral intents and that the resulting labels are truly interpretable and useful for a human analyst, the design included a secondary postprocessing pipeline. This need to facilitate data reading and understanding is what motivates and justifies the decision to eliminate micro-events or merge fragmented sections. In Figure [4.4](#FIG:POSTPROCESS_TIMELINE), this process is illustrated through the comparison of signals from an INGSOC 2025/2026 video, showing the transition from a fragmented sequence to a consistent event timeline. The strategies applied in this phase are: - **Moving Average Filters:** Variable-duration windows are applied to smooth fluctuations in gesture confidences, filling in small gaps where the model lost detection for a brief span. This unifies the action into a continuous block, avoiding excessive fragmentation that would hinder human interpretation of events. - **Minimum Duration Filters:** The system retrospectively discards any event that does not reach a minimum meaningful duration; for example, "Arms crossed" is not logged if the action lasted less than 0.2 seconds. This cleanup generates useful and meaningful labels, removing micro-movements that do not represent an actual behavioral intent. - **Multimodal Fusion:** Different detection sources, such as body, facial, and environmental signals, are consolidated into a single timeline stream. - **Compatibility with HuMLaS:** The final generated formats are fully compatible with the HuMLaS tool. This allows the direct import, application, and visualization of the data in the program.

**Figure 4.4:** Comparison between raw series (Raw Input) and processed series (Postprocessed) for an example video. It can be observed how the application of moving average and minimum duration filters eliminates the high-frequency noise characteristic of the original signal, unifying detections into solid blocks and removing artifacts that would hinder human analysis.

### 4.2.7. Generated Labels Table [4.2](#TB:ETIQUETAS_EXTRACCION) shows all the labels currently generated by the system, as well as their meaning and their function in the postprocessing phase.

Table 4.2: List of extracted labels, their meaning, and their use in postprocessing.

`nervous_movement` exists in multiple versions with different suffixes depending on the AI model trained and tested. More details can be found in Appendix [B.2](#SEC:ENTRENAMIENTO_MODELOS). ## 4.3. Feedback Module The fundamental goal of this system lies not merely in metric collection, but in transforming them into feedback that is actionable for the user. To this end, a module based on Large Language Models (LLMs) has been designed, whose architecture is grounded in decisions oriented toward semantic contextualization, statistical objectivity, and the humanization of the response. ### 4.3.1. Semantic Synchronization and Content Alignment A critical limitation in automatic analysis systems is the reliance on absolute timestamps (e.g., "minute 3:45"), which lack direct meaning regarding the speaker's performance. To resolve this problem, the design includes a content alignment subsystem. This component extracts slides from the supporting PDF or PPTX document and matches them visually with the video frames using vision algorithms. This synchronization allows the feedback engine to replace temporal references with spatial and content references. In this way, feedback is anchored to the actual context (e.g., "During the conclusion slide..."), enabling the speaker to link their gestures directly to the specific topics addressed at any given moment of the presentation. ### 4.3.2. Conflict Resolution Given the concurrent execution of the pipeline layers, it is common for overlapping detections to be generated over time. To guarantee the consistency of the data presented to the language model, a conflict resolution system based on precedence groups was designed. This mechanism ensures that in related labels, such as those analyzing the gaze, those with higher precedence, like "Reading Notes", clip or override others with lower priority, like "Looking at Floor", in the event of an overlap. This process guarantees that the statistical summary sent to the generation engine is consistent. ### 4.3.3. Evaluation Framework For the system to issue consistent results, a categorization matrix based on thresholds is injected into the prompt. These boundaries have been defined through the analysis of the Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) and histograms of the data processed from individual SOPHIAS presentations, subsequently adjusted via expert knowledge to avoid localized biases in the analyzed class and ensure high-quality communication standards.

**Figure 4.5:** Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) of the labels generated over the SOPHIAS dataset. The vertical dashed lines indicate the established decision thresholds.

Table [4.3](#TB:UMBRALES) details the categorization matrix that guides the model's internal logic. It is worth noting that the set of labels used combines both automated system detections and annotations supplemented or manually verified by humans through HuMLaS.

| **Category** | **Very Good** | **Good** | **Needs Work** | **Insufficient / Needs Attention** | | :---------------------------- | :-----------: | :-----------: | :------------: | :--------------------------------: | | Looking at Audience | \>85% | 70-85% | 50-70% | \<50% | | Looking at Slides | \<10% | 10-20% | 20-30% | \>30% | | Correct Pose | \>85% | 70-85% | 50-70% | \<50% | | Pose to Improve | \<2% | 2-5% | 5-10% | \>10% | | Reading Notes\* | 0% | 0-5% | 5-10% | \>10% | | Looking at Computer Screen\* | 0% | 0-5% | 5-10% | \>10% | | Nervous Movement\* | \<2% | 2-5% | 5-10% | \>10% | | Looking at Floor/Ceiling/Wall | \<2.5% | 2.5-5% | 5-7.5% | \>7.5% | | Pointing | 2-5% | \<2% or 5-10% | 10-15% | \>15% |

Table 4.3: Percentage thresholds injected into the context of the LLM to evaluate behaviors. Categories with an asterisk (*) have been manually labeled through HuMLaS.

An aspect to note in this design is the management of the _Pointing_ variable. It has been determined that excellence requires a moderate use of this resource to direct attention without losing connection with the audience. Likewise, the LLM is capable of dynamically flexing these thresholds if it detects that the analyzed slide contains elements that justify a prolonged interaction with the screen, such as complex graphs or diagrams. ### 4.3.4. Pedagogical Strategies of Feedback The design of the final feedback follows strict prompt engineering rules to ensure effective communication: - **Humanization of data:** The system rounds statistics (e.g., "around 90%") and durations (e.g., "almost 5 minutes") to mimic the tone of a human coach and avoid information overload. - **Hybrid grammatical perspective:** The direct second person ("You") is used to reinforce strengths and advice, while the impersonal third person (e.g., "The presentation showed...") is utilized for areas for improvement, separating the mistake from the student's identity. - **Non-explicit evaluation:** The categories in Table [4.3](#TB:UMBRALES) serve solely as an internal guide; the user never receives labels like "Insufficient", but rather constructive observations based on those data. ### 4.3.5. Software Architecture From a development perspective, a system of independent JSON templates has been chosen for managing prompts and translations. This decoupling allows iterating on the pedagogical logic and the internationalization of the system without the need to modify the processing engine's source code. Finally, the design prioritizes speaker privacy through an anonymization system. Before any data transmission to external APIs, the system automatically identifies and redacts names and personal data within the PDF or PPTX material, ensuring that content analysis remains private and secure. # 5. Development and Implementation This chapter presents the structure and implementation of each project module. ## 5.1. Pipeline Module The architectural core of AIMLaS is a custom pipeline engine designed from scratch to meet the latency constraints of real-time video processing. The engine relies exclusively on native Python data structures and minimizes external dependencies. This design decision allows for a per-layer overhead of less than 4 nanoseconds, making the engine itself transparent relative to the computer vision workload. In terms of capabilities, the system offers three distinctive functionalities: 1. **Declarative dependency grammar:** It allows each layer to request not only values from the current cycle, but also historical windows by index (`[-5:]`) or by time (`[-3.5s:-1s]`). The engine resolves and validates these dependencies statically during initialization, injecting the corresponding data into each cycle without manual intervention. 2. **Automatic memory manager:** Through reverse propagation over the dependency graph, it calculates exactly how many cycles or seconds of history each variable must retain. The histories are stored in double-ended queues (`deque`) with $\mathcal{O}(1)$ complexity, and a garbage collector automatically purges expired records at the end of each iteration, guaranteeing that RAM consumption remains bounded even during prolonged executions. 3. **Fine-grained scheduler:** Instead of grouping layers into levels and waiting for each level to finish, it launches each individual layer at the exact moment all its producers have finalized. This eliminates the penalty of synchronization barriers and allows independent branches of the graph to execute overlappingly. Topological validation and the calculation of ancestors and descendants for scheduling rely on `networkx` [@hagberg2008networkx], which guarantees cycle detection at initialization time. The engine also supports heterogeneous execution through `AUTO` mode, which automatically determines the most efficient regime for each layer. If the dependency graph indicates that the layer lacks concurrent peers, it executes directly and synchronously (`INLINE`). If it defines a custom one, it integrates into the event loop (`ASYNC`). In any other case, it is offloaded to a thread pool (`THREAD`). Layers without coroutines can be manually pinned to `INLINE` or `THREAD` for tighter optimizations. Additionally, the engine incorporates a specific abstraction for JIT compilation with Numba [@Lam2015numba], allowing the acceleration of numerical kernels without abandoning the declarative paradigm of the pipeline. Finally, to facilitate visual debugging of data routing, the module integrates an interactive visualizer based on D3.js [@bostock2011d3] that exports the graph topology to a web browser, displaying dependencies, execution modes, and latencies per layer in real time. This tool proved essential during development to validate that the conditional branches of the analysis, such as reading from a CSV versus real-time estimation, maintained topological consistency without introducing cycles. Figure [5.1](#FIG:PIPELINE_CLASES) shows the class diagram of the module, excluding the optional interactive visualization system.

**Figure 5.1:** Class diagram of the pipeline module, excluding the visualization system.

## 5.2. Analysis Module ### 5.2.1. Main Processing Pipeline The core of the module is an analysis function that dynamically builds the pipeline at runtime based on available parameters. This architecture allows switching between real-time video processing and analysis over precalculated telemetry data without modifying subsequent logic. The conditional construction of the graph is governed by three main axes: the source of body poses (reading from previous files or estimation via computer vision), the source of head orientation (external data or facial estimation), and the optional activation of visualization branches. This flexibility ensures that the same detection core operates indistinctly over live streams or recorded sessions. Regarding output targets, the system allows simultaneously logging results in multiple formats: structured per-frame logs for later analysis, normalized coordinate export for model training, and video encoding with informative overlays for visual review. ### 5.2.2. Postprocessing and Signal Cleaning Since frame-by-frame inferences are inherently noisy, a secondary postprocessing pipeline was designed to operate on raw detections before generating feedback. #### Architecture of postprocessing layers Postprocessing is structured as a sequence of specialized filters. First, temporal proximity heuristics are applied to correct ambiguous classifications during brief transitions between states. Next, mutually exclusive groups are resolved, ensuring that incompatible labels do not coexist within the same interval. Subsequently, moving average smoothing dampens isolated confidence fluctuations, and a minimum duration filter discards temporal artifacts too short to represent a true behavioral intent. #### Conversion to temporal events Once detections are filtered, a conversion component transforms the time series into event intervals with absolute start and end timestamps. This process synchronizes the data with session logs using configurable offsets and generates a tabular format directly compatible with the research group's manual annotation tools. ### 5.2.3. Auxiliary Tools To facilitate system debugging and validation, two complementary utilities were developed. - **Visualization of the processing graph:** The interactive visualizer from the pipeline engine is leveraged to export the topology of the analysis graph to a web environment. This capability made it possible to verify proper historical dependency resolution during development, the absence of cycles in dynamic configurations, and the logical flow of data from sources to log targets. - **Temporal visualization of detections:** An interactive chart generator was implemented using Plotly [@plotly2015] to represent the evolution of each label's confidence over the video. The use of semantic color codes (green for desirable behaviors, red for areas needing work, and blue for neutral ones) facilitated qualitative calibration of the detection thresholds. ### 5.2.4. Data Handling and Correction A critical complexity of the module was the heterogeneity of input data originating from different monitoring frameworks (SOPHIAS, INGSOC 2025/2026). Pose files frequently presented incomplete rows, missing values, or misaligned timestamps relative to the video. To add robustness to data ingestion, three correction mechanisms were implemented: dynamic row padding with a variable schema to prevent parsing errors in Polars [@vink2024polars], tolerant conversion of corrupt values through interpolation, and timestamp normalization with offset compensation between the start of video recording and the start of pose logging. ## 5.3. Feedback Module The feedback module represents the final phase of the system, responsible for consolidating telemetry data, audiovisual context, and the semantic content of the presentation to generate automated pedagogical feedback. At the implementation level, this module interacts with various tools for text extraction, visual synchronization, and the orchestration of Large Language Models (LLMs). Figure [5.2](#FIG:FEEDBACK_DIAG) shows the interactions between the different components of this module.

**Figure 5.2:** Diagram of the feedback module components.

To unify information, the system ingests different data sources, such as video time clips, manual events, and automated detections, and resolves conflicts and temporal overlaps using a predefined logical priority system. Once the timeline is consolidated, exact aggregated metrics are calculated, such as the total percentage of time looking at the screen, and evaluated against a pedagogical threshold matrix (`BEHAVIOR_THRESHOLDS`), discretizing the speaker's performance to ensure an objective assessment. ### 5.3.1. Content Extraction and Anonymization The extraction of semantic context is performed by processing the presentation document (PDF or PPTX) using the `google-genai` SDK. To guarantee student privacy, a local anonymization process is applied before sending the file to the inference servers. The system cross-references the student ID with a local database and, using the `PyMuPDF` library, draws black boxes over any matches of the speaker's name, generating a secure temporary document. For the task of summarizing and analyzing the anonymized document slide-by-slide, the `gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview` model was chosen. As this is a bounded analytical task where response generation is strictly forced via strict JSON schemas, experimental testing confirmed that a model from the _lite_ family offers the required precision with minimal impact on quota and latency compared to heavier architectures. ### 5.3.2. Multimodal Slide Synchronization To implement synchronization between the video frame and its corresponding presentation slide, a hybrid computer vision algorithm supported by `OpenCV` and `SentenceTransformers` was developed. During initial tests, the exclusive use of geometric matching via the SIFT algorithm proved to be highly sensitive to high-frequency patterns in the environment, such as gridded clothing, accumulating false positives. To mitigate this issue, the final implementation operates along two complementary axes: - **Homography Filtering:** The RANSAC method is employed over SIFT detections to ensure that matched points maintain strict geometric coherence (forming a valid perspective plane), thereby eliminating background noise. - **Neural Embedding Fusion (CLIP):** To resolve failures on slides with a scarcity of keypoints, the `clip-ViT-B-32` model is used. Both the slide and the frame are projected into a semantic vector space, assigning a weighted score that combines the structural similarity of CLIP with geometric precision. Finally, since presentations follow a logical order, individual detections are postprocessed using the Viterbi algorithm (Dynamic Programming). This penalizes highly improbable transitions, such as jumping from slide 1 to 16 and back to 3, guaranteeing a robust timeline. To maximize efficiency, the visual analysis does not run continuously; instead, it samples around slide transition events manually labeled in HuMLaS. This optimization shifts the theoretical complexity from $\mathcal{O}(T \times S^2)$ (with $T \approx 18000$ and $10 \le S \le 50$) to an operational complexity of $\mathcal{O}(S^3)$, guaranteeing low computational latency by reducing the theoretical number of operations by a factor of 1,000 for the average case of 18 slides in INGSOC 2024/2025 and 2025/2026. This hybrid approach achieves a proven accuracy of 98.3% over manually labeled datasets. This metric will be expanded upon in Section [6.3.1](#SEC:PRUEBAS_FEEDBACK). ### 5.3.3. Prompt Engineering and LLM Selection To guarantee code maintainability, prompt text and its internationalization are decoupled from the Python logic and managed via JSON files. The structure of the final prompt injected into the language model evolved iteratively to control hallucinations and force strict adherence to the pedagogical framework: - **Version 1 (v1):** Only the time series were ingested. The model tended to generate robotic feedback, referencing irrelevant timestamps that were difficult for the user to read. - **Version 2 (v2):** Semantic slide descriptions were integrated. The model was instructed to transition from absolute temporal references to contextual and spatial references, associating behaviors with the projected content. - **Version 3 (v3 - Current):** Dynamic injection of preprocessed statistical calculations was implemented. The code generates a Markdown table with performance categories already resolved by the system's thresholds and pushes the model to rely exclusively on them. In this way, the LLM acts purely as a narrative synthesis engine instead of applying its own statistical criteria, which drastically improved result consistency. Inference from this final prompt is complex, regularly exceeding 7,700 input tokens and producing around 650 output tokens. Unlike the previous text extraction, this task demands deep temporal reasoning, rigorous adherence to mixed style instructions, and the ability to relate disconnected events, while respecting operational constraints such as never mentioning the underlying data table to the user. Following empirical testing and faculty review, the `gemini-2.5-flash` model was selected. This model demonstrated a capability clearly superior to lighter alternatives for synthesizing the extensive volume of instructions and grammatical rules imposed in a coherent and humanized manner. Additionally, average costs are \$0.0023 for input and \$0.0016 for output, bringing the total to \$0.0039. The cost of providing feedback to an entire class of 50 students is under 20 US cents. Examples of constructed prompts and feedback can be reviewed in Appendix [A](#CAP:OUTPUTS_FEEDBACK_REF). # 6. Testing This chapter details the tests conducted to validate the operation of the AIMLaS system, including comprehensive computer benchmarks and human verification via HuMLaS. ## 6.1. Pipeline Module Tests Since the pipeline engine is the core of real-time processing, guaranteeing its reliability, determinism, and proper resource management is vital. To achieve this, a suite of unit tests was implemented using the `pytest` framework [@pytest_framework]. The tests were divided into several critical areas of the engine: - **Lexical Analysis and Dependency Resolution:** The correct operation of the parsing engine was verified against simple accesses, relative indices, and temporal windows, validating that the system appropriately rejects invalid syntax or undefined parameters in the graph. - **Temporal Determinism:** To isolate access to historical dependencies without compromising test execution speed, a mock clock was implemented using monkeypatching [@monkeypatch_technique]. This allowed advancing time deterministically and verifying the correct injection of filtered data arrays. - **Edge Cases and Cyclic Injection:** The architecture was evaluated against complex topologies, explicitly testing self-referencing behavior. It was guaranteed that negative indices access the history without causing deadlocks, and the correct encapsulation and propagation of control exceptions (such as `LayerComplete`) were verified to stop the flow safely. The final suite encompasses 76 test cases distributed across 6 modules, achieving a global coverage of 86%. These run automatically as part of the CI/CD publication pipeline on GitHub (https://github.com/hectortablero/rapidpipe). There are also 12 examples demonstrating how to use the system, which double as integration tests. ### 6.1.1. Stability and Memory Cleaning Validation One of the main challenges of a synchronous engine that retains historical context is the prevention of memory leaks. Through controlled scenarios in unit testing, it was verified that the Dependency Graph optimizer rigorously applies the maximum storage requirements (`storage_requirement`) defined in the initialization phase. Beyond isolated tests, the real effectiveness of the garbage collection system was empirically demonstrated during the massive processing of videos from the SOPHIAS dataset. Throughout these prolonged executions, RAM consumption remained constant and strictly bounded, confirming that the automatic purging of obsolete histories functions optimally for uninterrupted deployments. ### 6.1.2. Performance and Latency Evaluation To contextualize the obtained results, it is important to mention that measurements were performed on a laptop with the technical specifications described in Table [6.1](#TB:ESPECIFICACIONES):

Table 6.1: Technical specifications of the laptop computer used for performance measurements.

The measured overhead of the engine is approximately 1–4 nanoseconds per executed layer (and a few milliseconds during graph initialization), which is negligible compared to any real workload. Additionally, thanks to the fine-grained scheduling that the engine automatically applies to the dependency graph, the system achieves an acceleration of approximately 1.25x compared to an equivalent sequential implementation in baseline benchmarks. This means that using the module introduces no penalty; instead, in environments with exploitable parallelism, it generates a net benefit without requiring any explicit configuration from the developer. Specifically, through various measurements of the analysis module pipeline, the system's capability to process video at 40–45 frames per second (FPS) when estimating pose via MediaPipe, and at a stable 80–85 FPS when only reading from a CSV file, has been demonstrated. Figure [6.1](#FIG:BENCHMARKS_PIPELINE) shows screenshots of the results from the `rapidpipe` metrics subsystem when processing a video over an hour long under the described conditions.

**Figure 6.1:** Performance profiles and execution times of the analysis pipeline under different computational load configurations.

## 6.2. Analysis Module Tests Unlike the pipeline engine, whose deterministic nature allows software validation through automated unit tests, the analysis module confronts the inherent ambiguity of nonverbal communication and human behavior. Therefore, verification of this module was not approached from a formal code validation standpoint, but rather through an iterative process of qualitative human verification and quantitative comparison against manually labeled datasets. The testing and calibration strategy was developed through the following empirical phases: - **Continuous Visual Verification:** During the early stages of development, the validity of geometric extractions, such as gaze orientation or body openness, was checked visually by injecting visualizer layers into the pipeline in real time. This allowed rapid iteration on the mathematical logic and significant improvements to the baseline algorithms, adjusting the weighting of heuristic rules before processing large data volumes. - **Interoperability and Data Cross-referencing (LOGGE Format):** To ensure that system extractions were comparable with previous work by the research group, the logging module output was adapted to the standard LOGGE format. This enabled direct cross-referencing of automated system metrics with pre-existing event files, validating temporal synchronization and detecting offsets at the start and end of each presentation. - **Contrast against Human Annotations (HuMLaS):** The core of the validation consisted of comparing automated detections with labels added by human annotators. Processed results were exported to event files to cross-check the system's times and classifications via HuMLaS, as detailed in Section [6.2.1](#SEC:VAL_F1). This direct comparison made it possible to identify which automatically generated labels matched human perception and which required calibration. ### 6.2.1. Quantitative Validation Using F1 Metrics To objectively evaluate automated labeling accuracy, a quantitative comparison was performed against a ground truth built through expert human annotation of 4 INGSOC 2025/2026 recordings using the HuMLaS tool. This represents a total of 72,493 evaluated frames, providing a solid statistical foundation for temporal validation, though the inherent limitation regarding the diversity of subjects and environments in the corpus is acknowledged. The restriction in the number of sessions is a response to the extreme temporal and operational demands of manual annotation work. This process requires an iterative review of each video to precisely delimit the start and end of behaviors. In this context, ground truth reliability has been prioritized over volume, ensuring that metrics rigorously reflect the system's actual capacity. The F1-score metric [@sokolova2009systematic] was chosen instead of accuracy because it is a balanced measure that penalizes both false positives and false negatives. This choice is critical in our domain, where labels like `looking_at_floor` or `arms_crossed` present a severe class imbalance, occurring in less than 5% of the total time. The F1-score allows proper evaluation of the detection of these rare but behaviorally significant events.

| **Label** | **F1-score** | **Support** | | :-------------------- | :----------: | :---------: | | `arms_crossed` | 0.999 | 900 | | `looking_at_audience` | 0.806 | 48,461 | | `looking_at_floor` | 0.966 | 2,421 | | `looking_at_slides` | 0.859 | 20,968 | | `open_pose` | 0.893 | 59,616 | | `pointing` | 0.950 | 3,676 |

Table 6.2: F1 metrics for key labels extracted by the AIMLaS system, calculated over a total of 72,493 frames from 4 videos manually annotated in HuMLaS.

The results show excellent performance in static postural labels (`arms_crossed`, `open_pose`, `pointing`) with F1 $>$ 0.89. The `looking_at_audience` label presents the lowest value (0.806). This drop occurs because AIMLaS, in its current configuration, lacks context regarding external physical elements, such as paper notes, tablets, or laptops positioned as a teleprompter between the presenter and the audience. The geometric engine interprets the frontal orientation of the face as eye contact, generating false positives when the speaker is actually reading physical supports. Nevertheless, an F1 of 0.806 is perfectly acceptable for educational use focused on global trends. On the other hand, values close to unity for `arms_crossed` (0.999) and `looking_at_floor` (0.966) confirm the robustness of the hybrid engine for behaviors that are unequivocally defined geometrically. ## 6.3. Feedback Module Tests Validation of the feedback generation module required a mixed approach. On one hand, it was necessary to check the technical precision of auxiliary algorithmic subsystems (such as visual synchronization and document anonymization) using quantitative metrics, and on the other hand, to qualitatively evaluate the pedagogical value of the texts generated by the language model. ### 6.3.1. Verification of Slide Synchronization For the language model to contextualize the speaker's gestures, it is essential that the system accurately identifies which slide is displayed in each frame. Validation of this hybrid algorithm was performed at two levels: the impact of geometric filtering and the performance of the multimodal set through an ablation study. First, the robustness of SIFT descriptors against background visual noise was evaluated. As anticipated in the design, the presence of high-frequency patterns, such as clothing with geometric patterns, initially generated a critical volume of false positives. Figure [6.1](#FIG:FALSOS_POSITIVOS) demonstrates how integrating `RANSAC` [@fischler1981random] enables filtering out these erroneous matchings, shifting matching density on incorrect slides toward values near zero. Specifically, this mechanism discards 73.02% of matches on incorrect slides while only removing 31.5% on average on correct ones, validating the efficacy of homography filtering to isolate the projection.

**Figure 6.1:** Distribution of false positives detected on incorrect slides: comparison between pure SIFT and SIFT with Homography filtering.

Second, an ablation study was conducted to quantify the contribution of each system component to final accuracy. For this purpose, a manual ground truth obtained after annotating 702 slide transitions in INGSOC 2025/2026 monitoring data was used. Evaluated modules are defined as follows: - **C (CLIP):** Multimodal model to calculate semantic similarity using embeddings. - **S (SIFT):** Local feature extraction to detect geometric keypoints. - **R (RANSAC/Homography):** Spatial filtering to ensure geometric coherence of matched points. - **V (Viterbi):** Dynamic programming to penalize illogical temporal transitions. As observed in Figure [6.2](#FIG:ABLACION_SINCRO), accuracy scales from 29.2% using only CLIP semantics (C) to 98.3% when integrating the full system (S+R+C+V). This result demonstrates that applying the Viterbi algorithm [@viterbi1967error] is what ultimately guarantees temporal coherence and eliminates incorrect jumps in the timeline.

**Figure 6.2:** Slide matching accuracy according to combinations of modules S (SIFT), R (RANSAC), C (CLIP), and V (Viterbi).

### 6.3.2. Anonymization System Validation Since the content of supporting materials is sent to an external API, validation of the redaction system was critical to guarantee privacy. Testing of this component was conducted through manual inspection of the temporary files generated prior to transmission. Test PDF documents were injected and cross-referenced with the local database containing speaker information. It was rigorously verified that the system detected and overlaid opaque black boxes on all possible variations of the speaker's name, including full name, short name, and versions without accents, confirming that no Personally Identifiable Information (PII) leaked to the inference servers. # 7. Conclusions and Future Work This final chapter presents the conclusions of the Bachelor's Thesis and the objectives achieved during its development. Additionally, several lines of future work are proposed to improve the performance, scope, and versatility of the project. ## 7.1. Conclusions Following the design, development, and validation of the AIMLaS (_Artificial Intelligence Multimodal Labeling System_) system, it can be stated that the objectives proposed at the beginning of this Bachelor's Thesis have been successfully met. The issue of subjective evaluation in public speaking has been addressed by providing a tool capable of translating analog behavior into formative and actionable insights. The achievements reached in this project are as follows: - **State of the Art Study:** The comprehensive literature review made it possible to identify the existing gap between commercial unimodal solutions, which compromise privacy, and multimodal prototypes that are difficult to scale, defining the exact niche that AIMLaS comes to resolve. - **Data Understanding and Adaptation:** The SOPHIAS corpus was analyzed, and agnostic ingestion adapters were developed for the pipeline engine. This allows the system to transparently ingest and process both real-time video streams and precalculated metrics. - **Computational Efficiency and Pipeline Acceleration:** The pipeline engine has achieved a negligible overhead ($<$5ns per executed layer). Thanks to dependency resolution within the graph, the system achieves an acceleration of 1.25x compared to equivalent sequential implementations. - **Biometric Extraction and Hybrid Analysis:** Through the integration of computer vision models, the system extracts the speaker's behavioral biometrics, relying on a geometric normalization engine that guarantees consistency regardless of camera resolution or distance. Subsequently, a hybrid detection engine and a postprocessing system transform noisy frame-by-frame predictions into behavioral events. - **Pedagogical Feedback Generation via LLMs:** The creation of feedback has been successfully automated using language models. Prompt engineering based on statistical evaluation matrices ensures that the feedback is objective, constructive, and professional. - **Multimodal Synchronization:** The development of a hybrid algorithm combining geometric descriptors (SIFT), semantic embeddings (CLIP), and dynamic programming (Viterbi) achieved an accuracy of 98.3% in slide synchronization over the dataset. This advancement is fundamental to providing contextualized rather than merely temporal feedback. - **Privacy by Design Guarantee:** Under the Privacy by Design paradigm, the system performs all biometric processing locally and anonymizes personal data before any interaction with external APIs, strictly complying with the GDPR. - **Interoperability and Real-world Application:** The system has proven its validity by successfully processing the SOPHIAS and INGSOC 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 data corpuses and generating real feedback for students. Compatibility with the LOGGE format and the HuMLaS tool ensures that AIMLaS is an integrable piece within the GHIA research group's ecosystem and the MOSAIC-F framework. - **Economic Viability and Scalability:** The operational cost of the system was quantified using the `gemini-2.5-flash` model, resulting in approximately \$0.0039 per analyzed student. This cost is significantly lower than any human evaluation method, demonstrating that AIMLaS is financially sustainable and ready for deployment in educational institutions with large volumes of students. In short, this work represents a significant contribution to the application of artificial intelligence in the educational field, offering an economically accessible, scalable, and technical solution for training essential transferable skills in the contemporary professional world. ## 7.2. Future Work The main development pathways proposed to evolve and refine the tool are detailed below: - **Integration of Additional Modalities (Audio):** Currently, the system's analysis utilizes videos and human annotations. A natural and necessary expansion of the project consists of incorporating audio processing. This would allow considering fundamental paralinguistic characteristics in public speaking, such as pitch modulation, speech rate, pauses, the use of filler words, or voice projection. - **Advanced Predictive Models for Complex Temporal Dependencies:** The qualitative classification of continuous behaviors, especially "nervous movement," has proven to be a complex challenge due to its strong dependence on long-term temporal context. A future line of work is the collection of a broader dataset and an improvement in the feature engineering that the models receive. - **Interactive Platform for Real-time Practice and Feedback:** Although the underlying analysis engine operates in real time, the generation of pedagogical text through the Language Model takes place well after the end of the presentation. A product-oriented development path is the creation of an interactive platform for presentation rehearsal. This interface would allow users to practice autonomously and receive visual indicators in real time or immediately after finishing their presentation. - **Adaptation for Group Presentations:** Currently, the system architecture is optimized for evaluating a single speaker on stage. A high-value extension would consist of scaling the system to support multi-speaker presentations. This would involve integrating multi-target tracking algorithms and active speaker detection to identify which student has the floor at any given instant. In this way, the feedback engine could generate both an individualized performance analysis for each member and an overall conclusion regarding coordination, transitions, and general team dynamics. - **Integration of Environment-Dependent Detections:** Currently, the AIMLaS analysis focuses exclusively on the speaker and lacks context regarding physical elements on stage, such as paper notes, tablets, or laptops. As observed in Table [6.2](#TB:F1_SCORES), this limitation can generate false positives. A future line of research would consist of incorporating object detection models into the vision architecture to map the physical environment, automating the identification of labels that currently depend on human annotation, such as "Reading Notes" or "Looking at Computer Screen." --- ## Annexes ### A. Prompts and Generated Feedback This appendix documents the exact prompts used for interaction with the LLMs that integrate the system. It is worth noting that these texts are the result of an iterative refinement process. As a result of this evolution, some of the presented prompts still preserve artifacts or instructions from previous versions that have become implicitly obsolete. For example, the instructions ask the model "not to include very subtle points," even though in the current architecture this is already strictly controlled by the threshold table, which mathematically and precisely defines which behaviors are eligible to be mentioned in the final text. The presence of these artifacts does not worsen the quality of the results; rather, it has been empirically proven that it can reinforce the model's adherence to the instructions. ## A.1. Prompts for Slide Analysis #### System Prompt for Slide Analysis Box [A.1](#TXT:PROMPT_SLIDES_SYSTEM) defines the primary role of the model, establishing its objective and basic privacy constraints.

You are an expert presentation analyst. Your goal is to summarize PDF presentations.

Box A.1: System Prompt for PDF analysis and summarization.

#### Prompt (User Prompt) for Slide Analysis Box [A.2](#TXT:PROMPT_SLIDES_USER) contains the specific execution instruction, forcing the output into a structured format and reiterating constraints.

Please analyze this PDF presentation. You must provide a strict JSON structure with two keys: 'overall_summary' (a single line description of the entire presentation) and 'slides' (an array of strings, where each string is a one-line description of each slide).

Box A.2: User Prompt for PDF analysis and summarization.

### A.1.1. Prompt Results Box [A.3](#TXT:OUTPUT_SLIDES) shows an example of the structure generated after executing the analysis prompt on a real supporting document, resulting in the expected JSON format.

{

"overall_summary": "The presentation analyzes the evolution and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the fields of cinema and literature.", "slides": \[

"Title slide: The influence of ICT in Cinema and Literature.", "Table of contents to be addressed in the presentation.", "Definition of the main objective: analyze the influence of ICT.", **\[...\]** "List of bibliographical references used in the presentation (part 2).", "Detailed bibliography on ICT and literature.", "Detailed bibliography on cinema."

}

Box A.3: Example of JSON output generated by the slide analysis prompt.

## A.2. Prompt for Feedback Generation The prompt in its current version, `v3`, is composed of several parts: #### System Prompt Box [A.4](#TXT:PROMPT_SYSTEM) contains the initial block that defines the fundamental role of the LLM.

You are an advanced, state-of-the-art public speaking coach leveraging pedagogical frameworks to provide actionable feedforward.

Box A.4: System Prompt for generating feedback for the student.

#### Part 1 - Introduction Box [A.5](#TXT:PROMPT_INTRO) contains the introduction that places the AI in the context of the task to be performed and explains the format of the data it will receive.

You are an expert public speaking communication coach. A student has just finished giving a presentation. Below is a log of detected body language and head pose actions that occurred during their presentation, along with the timestamps of when they occurred, the duration of each action, and the sentiment (good, bad, or neutral) linked to each action.

Box A.5: Part 1 of the prompt in v3: Introduction.

#### Part 2 - Information about supporting material Box [A.6](#TXT:PROMPT_SLIDES) shows how the context about the presentation slides, previously extracted from a PDF, is injected into the LLM.

This is a brief summary of the presentation's technical content: The presentation analyzes the evolution and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the fields of cinema and literature. Slide Context from PDF: Slide 1: Topic cover: The influence of ICT in Cinema and Literature. Slide 2: Table of contents to be addressed in the presentation. **\[...\]** Slide 20: Detailed bibliography on ICT and literature. Slide 21: Detailed bibliography on cinema.

Box A.6: Part 2 of the prompt in v3: Information about supporting material.

#### Part 3 - Structural milestones of the presentation Box [A.7](#TXT:PROMPT_HITOS) details the key moments of the presentation so that the AI can associate non-verbal behavior with the different phases of the talk.

Box A.7: Part 3 of the prompt in v3: Structural milestones of the presentation.

#### Part 4 - Detailed Instructions Boxes [A.8](#TXT:PROMPT_INSTRUCCIONES_P1) to [A.16](#TXT:PROMPT_INSTRUCCIONES_P9) break down the directives that the model must follow. They have been separated into blocks to ease reading. The table mentioned in Box [A.11](#TXT:PROMPT_INSTRUCCIONES_P4) is identical to Table [4.3](#TB:UMBRALES) discussed in Chapter 4 (Design).

Your goal is to provide constructive, professional feedback to the student based on this data. You must adhere to the following advanced pedagogical guidelines: 1. Tone Calibration & Data-Driven Coaching: Maintain a tone of constructive objectivity centered on growth. Your feedback must be grounded in the provided statistics and event log. Use specific data points to justify your observations, but keep them easy to understand through rounding. For example, use "around 90%" instead of "91.3%", or "almost 5 minutes" instead of "4:52".

Box A.8: Part 4 (1/9): Tone calibration.

2\. Spatial vs Temporal Reference: DO NOT use timestamps (e.g., "at 3:45") in your feedback. Instead, reference the presentation progress via SLIDES (e.g., "During slide 4...", "As you transitioned to the conclusion slide..."). Use the slide context provided in the milestones to link behaviors to content.

Box A.9: Part 4 (2/9): Temporal substitution.

3\. Hybrid Grammatical Perspective: Use the direct second person ("You") for almost all feedback (summary, strengths, advice, conclusion). Use the impersonal third person (e.g., "The presentation," "The delivery") EXCLUSIVELY when describing the Areas for Improvement, in order to separate behavior from your identity.

Box A.10: Part 4 (3/9): Hybrid grammar.

4\. Behavioral Context: Use the following table to interpret the statistics provided below. In 'Key Strengths', only include behaviors with 'Very Good' or 'Good' levels; however, NEVER include 'Looking at Floor/Ceiling/Wall' in this section (to avoid redundancy with Audience Gaze). In 'Areas for Improvement', only include behaviors with 'Needs Work' or 'Insufficient' levels; DO NOT include positive qualifiers (e.g., avoid "although minimal") in this section. NEVER MENTION THE TABLE DIRECTLY, NOR "NEEDS WORK" OR "INSUFFICIENT" STANDARDS. \| Category \| Very Good \| Good \| Needs Work \| Insufficient / Needs Attention \| \| :- \| :- \| :- \| :- \| :- \| \| \*\*Looking at Audience\*\* \| \>85% \| 70\-85% \| 50\-70% \| \<50% \| \| \*\*Looking at Slides\*\* \| \<10% \| 10\-20% \| 20\-30% \| \>30% \| \| \*\*Correct Pose\*\* \| \>85% \| 70\-85% \| 50\-70% \| \<50% \| \| \*\*Pose to Improve\*\* \| \<2% \| 2\-5% \| 5\-10% \| \>10% \| \| \*\*Reading Notes\*\* \| 0% \| 0\-5% \| 5\-10% \| \>10% \| \| \*\*Looking at Computer Screen\*\* \| 0% \| 0\-5% \| 5\-10% \| \>10% \| \| \*\*Nervous Movement\*\* \| \<2% \| 2\-5% \| 5\-10% \| \>10% \| \| \*\*Looking at Floor/Ceiling/Wall\*\* \| \<2.5% \| 2.5\-5% \| 5\-7.5% \| \>7.5% \| \| \*\*Pointing\*\* \| 2\-5% \| \<2% or 5\-10% \| 10\-15% \| \>15% \|

Box A.11: Part 4 (4/9): Behavioral context and evaluation table.

5\. Deep Contextualization: Link mechanical feedback (posture, gaze) directly to semantic content. Explain how gestures impacted a specific topic. Include HuMLaS detections like Nervous Movement, Reading Notes, or Looking at the Screen in your analysis.

Box A.12: Part 4 (5/9): Semantic contextualization.

6\. Structural Framework: Transition from backward-looking feedback to a forward-looking "feedforward". Keep the overall output very brief. Strictly follow this Markdown structure: \- Start directly with a very brief descriptive summary (1\-2 sentences) in SECOND PERSON regarding your overall performance and the goal achieved. DO NOT use any title or heading. \- \### Key Strengths \- Use bullet points to highlight 1\-3 specific, observable positive behaviors in SECOND PERSON and briefly explain exactly why they were effective. IT IS PREFERABLE TO WRITE ONLY 1 POINT THAN TO REPEAT THE SAME TOPIC MULTIPLE TIMES. The format of the points should be “\*\*Brief description: content\*\*”. \- \### Areas for Improvement \- Use bullet points to describe 1\-3 problems or frictions in THIRD PERSON (impersonal objectivity). DO NOT INCLUDE VERY SUBTLE POINTS, such as commenting that they looked at notes for 6 seconds. The format of the points should be “\*\*Brief description: content\*\*”. \- \### Advice for your Next Presentation \- Translate the critique into 1\-3 strategies specific and actionable in SECOND PERSON. The format of the points should be “\*\*Brief description: content\*\*”. \- End directly with the conclusion paragraph in SECOND PERSON. DO NOT use any title or heading.

Box A.13: Part 4 (6/9): Structural framework and output format.

7\. Constraints: Never include the name of the person presenting in your comments. DO NOT comment on the quality, content, slide sequence, or theme of the presentation; focus exclusively on the student's performance and body language. The goal is to provide between 1\-3 points per section, but do not add unnecessary points if there isn't significant data to support them. Keep all bullet points and sections extremely concise.

Box A.14: Part 4 (7/9): Strict constraints.

8\. Data: Try to include data such as percentages of time or the actual duration of actions (total or per block) when providing feedback. You must adhere to the rules on tone and rounding from point 1.

Box A.15: Part 4 (8/9): Use of data.

9\. If you're commenting on Pose to Improve you should try to provide additional details if the person has Hands Below Hips (both) or an Arm Down (just one) at the times when their posture needs improvement.

Box A.16: Part 4 (9/9): Posture correction.

#### Part 5 - Presentation Statistics Box [A.17](#TXT:PROMPT_ESTADISTICAS) provides the AI with the totals computed by the application, which are fundamental to complying with the established numerical directives.

=== STATISTICS === Presentation Section (9m 22s): \- Looking at Audience: 9m 12s (98.2%) \- Nervous Movement: 7m 58s (85.0%) \- Correct Pose: 7m 1s (74.8%) \- Arm Down: 5m 20s (56.9%) \- Hands Below Hips: 4m 13s (44.9%) \- Pose to Improve: 2m 13s (23.7%) \- Reading Notes: 6s (1.1%) \- Looking at Slides: 1s (0.2%)

Box A.17: Part 5 of the prompt in v3: Global statistics.

#### Part 6 - Temporal Labels Box [A.18](#TXT:PROMPT_ETIQUETAS) injects the raw list of events recorded in video, allowing the AI to correlate times with slide content.

Here is the log of body language actions detected: Format: Time Init \- Time End (Duration) \| Action (Sentiment) 0:02 \- 0:07 (5s) \| Pose to Improve (bad) 0:02 \- 0:08 (6s) \| Looking at Audience (good) **\[...\]** 9:21 \- 9:24 (3s) \| Pose to Improve (bad) 9:22 \- 9:24 (2s) \| Looking at Audience (good)

Box A.18: Part 6 of the prompt in v3: List of chronological labels.

#### Part 7 - Final Command Box [A.19](#TXT:PROMPT_FINAL) includes the closing instruction to trigger text generation.

Please provide your formal feedback for the student below:

Box A.19: Part 7 of the prompt in v3: Final execution.

### A.2.1. Generated Result Code [A.1](#COD:OUTPUTA) shows the feedback returned by the LLM when processing the entire structural block above.

```markdown You presented on "The influence of ICT in Cinema and Literature" with exceptional eye contact and good posture, managing to keep your audience connected with your content. ### Key Strengths - **Eye contact with the audience:** You maintained eye contact with the audience during almost the entire presentation, 98% of the time, which demonstrates your commitment and connection with them. This was notable from the start on the presentation slide through to the conclusions. - **Overall posture:** Your posture was correct for around 75% of the presentation, which contributed to a professional and confident image. ### Areas for Improvement - **Excessive movement:** The presentation showed significant nervous movement, present for approximately 85% of the total time. This was particularly noticeable during the explanation of the impact of ICT on literature (slides 7-9) and throughout the cinema section (slides 10-15), which could distract the audience from the content. - **Posture to improve:** There were moments when the posture was not optimal, representing close to 24% of the presentation. These instances often coincided with having arms down or crossed, as observed during the introduction of the topic (slide 1), the definition of ICT (slide 4), and across several important transitions, including entering the conclusions (slide 16). ### Advice for your Next Presentation - **Control your movements:** Be aware of your body movement. Try to practice your presentation by recording yourself or in front of a mirror to identify and reduce nervous movements, especially when explaining key concepts. - **Improve your posture:** Pay attention to the position of your arms. Aim to maintain an open and balanced posture, avoiding crossing your arms or leaving them down for prolonged periods, especially at key moments like transitions between sections or the introduction of new topics. You can use intentional gestures to emphasize points. Your ability to maintain eye contact is a great strength; by combining it with greater postural and movement control, you will elevate the impact of your future presentations even further. ``` ### B. Dynamic Detection System This appendix details the initial approach proposed for the automated detection of nervous movement using deep learning techniques. Although the architecture and training pipelines were developed and implemented, the module was ultimately replaced by a manual labeling system to guarantee the reliability of the feedback. ## B.1. System Design For purely temporal behaviors, such as "Nervous Movement," static heuristics are insufficient, since an isolated frame of a nervous person is indistinguishable from one of a calm person. To address this challenge, the design contemplates a deep learning architecture oriented toward time series. The system leverages the pipeline engine to collect temporal windows of history ($N$-frame arrays). Instead of using absolute spatial coordinates, which would introduce biases based on the speaker's position, a feature extraction process based on kinematic velocities was designed. By calculating the first temporal difference of the normalized landmarks, the model focuses exclusively on the movement pattern, allowing the identification of rhythms or tremors associated with stage anxiety. While the system is designed to integrate various predictive models, from Random Forests to complex architectures such as Transformers [@vaswani2017attention] or LSTMs [@hochreiter1997long], modularity was prioritized during the design phase. This allows the feedback engine to be fed indistinctly by either automated inference or high-fidelity manual labels, always guaranteeing maximum truthfulness in the feedback delivered to the user. ## B.2. Model Training and Evaluation A specialized training pipeline was developed to evaluate the feasibility of automatic nervousness detection. The technical implementation addressed the following milestones: - **Validation Strategy and Data Isolation:** To guarantee the generalization capability of the system and prevent data leakage, the split between the training and test sets (80/20) was performed strictly at the file/session level and not at the frame level. 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