Alessandro Vinciarelli

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…

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…