Alessandro Vinciarelli

I had a chance to give a talk to introduce Social AI at the Institute for Transdisciplinary AI: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-introduction-to-social-ai_11859216/ The abstract of the talk is as follows: “The goal of this talk is to introduce Social AI, the domain aimed at making sense of human behaviour in terms of social…

It is a great pleasure to announce that Fuxiang Tao, PhD student under my supervision, graduated with a thesis entitled “Speech-based Automatic Depression Detection via Biomarkers Identification and Artificial Intelligence Approaches”. Fuxiang published three papers during his PhD, all in the upper quartile of the CORE conference ranking: Special thanks…

I had the great pleasure and honour to give a talk at the AI Doctoral Academy: Here is the abstract of the presentation: “According to the Gartner Group, one of the most important strategic consulting companies, detection and monitoring of mental health issues are some of the most promising application…

My friend and colleague Abeer Buker and I published a new paper on the inference of personality traits from language and typing behaviour in dyadic text-based chats. The title of the work is “Reading Between the Lines: Automatic Inference of Self-Assessed Personality Traits from Dyadic Social Chats” and it will…

A new survey paper has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (“Co-Located Human-Human Interaction Analysis using Nonverbal Cues: A Survey”) and it is available at the following page: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626516 Most of the credits go to the exceptional Cigdem Beyan, a young an very talented colleague who has been the real…

It is a great pleasure to announce that two of myPhD students graduated in June: I enjoyed a lot to be the supervisor of Abeer and Hadeel. We went together through the difficult period of the pandemics and they both demonstrated great professionality and equilibrium in completing their PhD in…

It was a great pleasure and honour to be keynote speaker at the Workshop on Formalization, Modellization, and Representation of Social Pattern Analyses (ForMoRe), organised by the Social Pattern Recognition Laboratory of the University of Trento: https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/sociologia/116210/formore-workshop The workshop Chairs (Chiara Bassetti and Stefano Borgo) attracted a large number of…

I participated in Synapse 2022, a symposium on Artificial Intelligence held in Milan on July 2022: https://synapsesymposium.ai/ There were multiple speakers from both academia and industry who covered many different aspects of AI, from language modelling (Michele Catasta from Google showed tools capable to map natural language into code), to…

Two new works accepted at Interspeech 2022: G.Rennie, O.Perepelkina and A.Vinciarelli, “Which Model is Best: Comparing Methods and Metrics for Automatic Laughter Detection in a Naturalistic Conversational Dataset“, Proceedings of Interspeech, 2022. A.Bîrlădeanu, H.Minnis and A.Vinciarelli, “Automatic Detection of Reactive Attachment Disorder Through Turn-Taking Analysis in Clinical Child-Caregiver Sessions“, Proceedings…

On June 16th and 17th, the SONICOM consortium held its first face-to-face project meeting (at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens). The event involved two days of intensive discussions about audio immersive experiences from both sensory and psychological points of view. Overall, the main topic of the meeting was the…