Our paper titled “Multimodal and Temporal Perception of Audio-visual Cues for Emotion Recognition” has been selected for oral presentation at the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019). ACII 2019 will take place in Cambridge, the United Kingdom between 3rd-6th September 2019.

Two papers were accepted for presentation at the 27^th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2019) which will take place in Bruges, Belgium from 24 to 26 April 2019. Here are the authors and titles:

• C. Athanasiadis, E. Hortal and S. Asteriadis, Bridging face and sound modalities through Domain Adaptation Metric Learning
• M. Maggiolo, G. Spanakis: Autoregressive Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network for Univariate and Multivariate Time Series Prediction

Within the frame of the H2020 ICT4Life EU project, D. Dotti, M. Popa and S. Asteriadis will be presenting their work on Behavior and Personality Analysis in a nonsocial context Dataset, next June, at the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Understanding Subjective Attributes of Data

Our paper titled “Social Emotion Mining Techniques for Facebook Posts Reaction Prediction” is accepted for publication at the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2018) as a full paper.

This paper was authored by four of our Master in Artificial Intelligence students and their supervisor (Florian Krebs, Bruno Lubascher, Tobias Moers, Pieter Schaap, Gerasimos Spanakis) as part of a semester research project and explored how deep learning techniques (CNN and RNN) can be used to set up a prediction module for reaction predictions on Facebook posts.

Our joint work with the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) ‘A risk score of BMI, HbA1c and triglycerides predicts future glycemic control in type 2 diabetes’ has been accepted for publication at the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Journal.

A description of the platform employed in ICT4Life has been published as a book chapter; it is a joint work of the ICT4Life consortium, in which, RAI, plays a leading role in AAL activities and machine intelligence applications.

For more details:

• A. Sánchez-Rico, P. Garel, I. Notarangelo, M. Quintana, G. Hernández, S. Asteriadis, M. Popa, N. Vretos, V. Solachidis, M. Burgos, A. Girault. ICT Services for Life Improvement for the Elderly. Stud Health Technol Inform. 242:600-605, 2017

ICT4Life project link: http://www.ict4life.eu/

Oour joint work with UPM and CERTH ‘Behaviour analysis through multimodal sensing for improving Parkinson and Alzheimer patients quality of life’ has been accepted for publication at IEEE multimedia magazine

RAI has been the main organizer of the SIEARW workshop ‘Smart Indoor Event and Activity Recognition’, which was held in Lecce, along with the IEEE AVSS conference.

It has been a good week for RAI!

Our paper titled “A retrieval-based dialogue system utilizing utterance and context embeddings”  (A. Bartl, G. Spanakis) is accepted as a poster paper at the 16th IEEE International on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA2017).

This paper was first-authored by one of our Master in Artificial Intelligence graduates and describes his work towards building a chatbot for one of Maastricht based companies that DKE works with.