Alessandro Vinciarelli

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…

I participated in an event organised by Prof Helen Minnis, a leading expert in child attachment issues, to show how Social AI can help to identify children experiencing attachment problems. The interesting connection between psychiatry and AI is that many tests used to detect mental health issues are designed to…

Early 2022, Substrata gave me the chance to talk about nonverbal communication and Social Signal Processing from both scientific and technological points of view. It was a very pleasant interaction with Daniel Buchuk about all aspects of my main scientific interest, the automatic analysis of behaviour during social interactions, and…

I had the pleasure and honour to give a talk at the Furhat Symposium on Social Robotics: It was an excellent mix of talks that spanned from the presentation of new social robots designed to be as easy as possible to use (Misty Robotics), to the illustration of how social…

I had the chance to participate as a speaker in “A Pint of Science”, a nice initiative aimed at discussing about science with the general public: https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/tech-for-a-better-future Speaking in a pub is definitely unusual, but the atmosphere was full of energy and genuine curiosity. My talk was about social intelligence…

I gave a keynote at the European Chatbot and Conversational AI Event: The event involves a large number of people that look at Conversational AI from an industrial and commercial point of view. This made the Question Answering particularly interesting because all points raised by the audience focused on the…