Alessandro Vinciarelli

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…

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…