Alessandro Vinciarelli

I participated in a roundtable organised by Copy House on Customer Centric AI: The panel included people working in all types of role (CEOs, Business Development Managers, etc) so that the topic could be explored from all points of view. The main message is that AI is playing an increasingly…

I am very happy to participate in Book Week Scotland, the event organised by the Scottish Book Trust that involves readers and public libraries. I have been asked to prepare a short video about Artificial Intelligence that I entitled “AI: past, present and future”, where I have tried to explain…

The tutorial on Social AI organised in collaboration with Monika Harvey and Stacy Marsella has been a great success. Despite being held on a Saturday afternoon, the tutorial was attended by 50 persons that have participated with great questions and comments. The website of the tutorial is here: The three…

We have published another paper about depression for Cognitive Computation: N.Aloshban, A.Esposito and A.Vinciarelli, “What You Say Or How You Say It? Depression Detection Through Joint Modelling of Linguistic and Acoustic Aspects of Speech“, accepted for publication by Cognitive Computation, to appear 2020. The key-point of the paper is that…

I had the great opportunity to participate in an event organised by APARA (Asia Pacific Robotics Association). I joined an online panel and discussion about responsible AI and ethics: https://www.aibotics.tech/webinar Together with researchers (Prof David Bodoff from Haifa University) and entrepreneurs (Olivia Gambelin from Ethical AI and Chuan Hiang from…

I have been given the opportunity to give a Distinguished Lecture at the Institute of Engineering and Management in India: https://iem.edu.in/news-events/iem-uem-foreign-distinguished-lecture-by-prof-alessandro-vinciarelli-university-of-glasgow-uk-on-7th-september-2020/ I have introduced the general aspects of Social Signal Processing and Social AI, in particular when it comes to the analysis of nonverbal behaviour in human-human and human-machine interactions.…

We got two full papers accepted at the next ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interactions: N.Aloshban, A.Esposito and A.Vinciarelli, “Detecting Depression in Less Than 10 Seconds: Impact of Speaking Time on Depression Detection Sensitivity“, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2020. D.B.Vo, S.Brewster and A.Vinciarelli, “Did the…

A paper submitted in collaboration with Fuxiang Tao and Anna Exposition has been accepted for presentation at Interspeech 2020 (the conference is rated A by CORE): F.Tao, A.Esposito and A.Vinciarelli, “Spotting the traces of depression in read speech: An Approach Based on Computational Paralinguistics and Social Signal Processing“, Proceedings of…

My recent work on Visual Social Distancing: M.Cristani, A.Del Bue, V.Murino, F.Setti, A.Vinciarelli The Visual SocialDistancing Problem IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 126876-126886, 2020 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9138385 has been featured in an article by ANSA, the most important press agency in Italy: https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/tecnologia/hitech/2020/07/21/intelligenza-artificiale-anti-covid-misura-distanza-sicura_6e0da301-fb97-46f5-8f6a-d3c209e0d9b7.html The article proposes an approach for the analysis of…

I had the great pleasure to participate as a speaker in the Boundless Podcast, an initiative led by Richard Foster Fletcher to spread awareness about Artificial Intelligence and its latest developments. The discussion revolved around socially intelligent agents and, in particular, around their potential as a means to improve the…