Alessandro Vinciarelli

The business magazine Forbes features an article about the 16 Centres for Doctoral Training announced by UKRI on February 21st: https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/02/20/uk-government-to-fund-ai-university-courses-with-115m/#4fdc239c430d The article explains that the UK government aims at keeping the pace with the USA and China in the AI race: “AI is poised to become the most significant…

I have been awarded one of the 16 UKRI Centres for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence: https://www.ukri.org/news/200m-to-create-a-new-generation-of-artificial-intelligence-leaders/ It will be for me the major opportunity to collaborate with 30 world leading colleagues and 15 major industrial partners for the training of 50 PhD students. We will investigate all together the…

I have been interviewed for Voices in AI, a series of conversations between Byron Reese and experts in Artificial Intelligence: https://voicesinai.com/episode/episode-78-a-conversation-with-alessandro-vinciarelli/ The interview has focused on the interplay between human psychology and machine intelligence and, in particular, on how machines can learn how to “read the mind” of their users.…

My article “Machine-Based Decoding of Human Voices and Speech” has been published in “The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception“, edited by S.Fruholz and P.Belin. The chapter provides a general introduction to the main approaches aimed at speech recognition and inference of speech-based social perceptions. After showing that our very physiology…

The article “Automating the Administration and Analysis of Psychiatric Tests: The Case of Attachment in School Age Children” (G.Roffo, D.B.Vo, A,Sorrentino, M.Rooksby, M.Tayarani, H.Minnis, S.Brewster and A.Vinciarelli) has been accepted for presentation at the next ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019). The abstract of the…

I had the chance to give a course on multimodality at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in the framework of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Interaction Science and Technology: http://human-ist.unifr.ch/cas/courses/social-signal-and-multimodal-processing It has been an intensive day during which i have been teaching for six hours to a highly interactive…

Nick Heath from TechRepublic has interviewed me about the challenges of automatic face recognition in real-world settings. I pointed out at the difficulties of training AI-driven systems when it is not possible to know in advance what kind of variability will be encountered in operational conditions. Interestingly enough, Chris Bishop,…

Thanks to the great work of Harry Nguyen, I had the chance to participate in the Workshop “Health Optimisation: State-of-the-Art Technologies in Modern Psychiatry“. The event took place in Singapore at the Institute of Psychiatry and has gathered patients, doctors and researchers in both technology and medicine. The main lesson…