Alessandro Vinciarelli

I have been mentioned in a recent article posted in the blog of the “Scientific American”, where I have been asked to give my opinion about the role of context in the recognition of the emotions and, more in general, in the understanding of human behaviour: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-do-you-know-which-emotion-a-facial-expression-represents/ The article provides…

On September 3rd, I have successfully co-chaired with Olga Perepelkina the first International Workshop on Social and Emotion AI for Industry, in collaboration with Neurodata Lab: http://seaixi.neurodatalab.com The workshop was organised in Cambridge, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and, according to the…

Since I study nonverbal communication, I have always been fascinated by our innate tendency to leak information about ourselves through our behaviour. The new article “What and ‘Ehm’ leaks about you: Mapping Fillers into Personality Traits with Quantum Evolutionary Feature Selection Algorithms“, just accepted for publication by the IEEE Transactions on…

I have published a new article that analyses the preferences of roughly 5,000 prospective students attending one of the Open Days organised by the University of Glasgow: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-15939-9_5 The full citation of the paper is as follows: A.Vinciarelli, W.Riviera, F.Dalmasso, S.Raue, C.Abeyratna, “What Do Prospective Students Want? An Observational Study…

I am having the great pleasure of attending WIRN (Italian Neural Network Workshops) where I have been given the chance to give a keynote talk. The workshop gathers experts on Artificial Intelligence from all over Italy (and the rest of the world) to discuss about the latest advances in machine…

According to Arnet Miner, the search engine supported by the Chinese Government, I am one of the top 100 researchers in Multimedia in the decade 2007-2017. According to the message they sent me (see below), this results from the analysis of 230 millions of documents collected over 368,402 venues. —–…

I have been interviewed by The Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk) about the findings of the Office for National Statistics according to which the number of works at risk of being replaced by AI and technology is decreasing with respect to 2011: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/25/rise-robots-fears-overestimated-new-employment-data-reveals/ It has been a good chance to state publicly that…

The magazine “The Week” has published an article featuring my comments about the latest release of the office for the statistics according to which the number of jobs at risk of replacement with AI technologies is decreasing: https://www.theweek.co.uk/100408/automation-could-replace-15-million-uk-jobs While my opinion is that the number of jobs considered at risk…

I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, the most important publication venue for any researcher investigating technologies dealing with social and affective signals: https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/ta/misc/14383?title=About&periodical=IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Affective%20Computing After publishing a large number of papers on the journal and benefitting from the great work of…

Thanks to the great work of Anna Esposito, I have the pleasure to join the organising committee of the “Special Session on Dynamics of Emotional Speech Exchanges in Multimodal Communication“, to be held at Interspeech 2019: https://www.interspeech2019.org/program/special_sessions_and_challenges/ The topics covered in the special session can be described as follows: “Research…