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Prof.Dr. habil. |
Björn W. Schuller |
Contact: | University of Passau Chair of Complex and Intelligent Systems, Innstrasse 43, 94032 Passau, Germany Imperial College London Machine Learning Group, 180 Queens' Gate, Huxley Bldg., London SW7 2AZ, UK +44-207-59-48357 (UK) OR +49-851-509-3350 (Germany) schuller at ieee.org |
Follow on Twitter: | @BjoernSchuller |
Visit at ORCID: | 0000-0002-6478-8699 |
Recent Keynotes: | WEF BetaZone@Summer Davos 2015 or IEEE ICCE 2013 |
Recent Media Presence: | Listen or listen |
Fields: | Machine Learning, Complex Systems, Audiovisual Signal Processing, Human-Computer/Robot-Interaction, Affective Computing |
Institutions: | University of Passau, Imperial College London, Harbin Institute of Technology, University of Geneva, Joanneum Research, audEERING UG |
Alma Mater: | Technische Universität München |
Selected Activities: |
Editor in Chief IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Computer Speech and Language Guest Editor IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine, Neural Networks, Cognitive Computation, Knowledge-Based Systems, Speech Communication, Image and Vision Computing, Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems General Chair ACM ICMI 2014 Program Chair IEEE/AAAC ACII 2015 and 2011, ACM ICMI 2013, IEEE SocialCom 2012 Area Chair IEEE ICTAI 2015, EURASIP EUSIPCO 2015, ACM Multimedia 2014, IEEE ICASSP 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013, IEEE/HUMAINE ACII 2013, ACM ICMI 2012 Coordinator European Project ASC-Inclusion Principal Investigator ERC Starting Grant iHEARu President-Emeritus (Secretary) of the AAAC |
Google Scholar: | Profile (currently >9500 citations, h-index = 46) |
Code and Resources: | openaudio.eu |
Publications: | (currently >500, >60 in journals) .bib File or PDF in ACM format, IEEE format, APA format, ALPHA format |
Five Recent Publications: |
F. Weninger, J. Bergmann, and B. Schuller, “Introducing CURRENNT – the Munich Open-Source CUDA RecurREnt Neural Network
Toolkit,” Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 16:547-551, 2015.
G. Trigeorgis, K. Bousmalis, S. Zafeiriou, and B. Schuller, “A Deep Semi-NMF Model for Learning Hidden Representations,” in Proceedings 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2014 , (Beijing, China), International Machine Learning Society, IMLS, June 2014. 9 pages. J. Deng, Z. Zhang, F. Eyben, and B. Schuller, “Autoencoder-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Speech Emotion Recognition,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2014. 4 pages. F. Ringeval, F. Eyben, E. Kroupi, A. Yuce, J.-P. Thiran, T. Ebrahimi, D. Lalanne,B. Schuller, “Prediction of Asynchronous Dimensional Emotion Ratings from Audiovisual and Physiological Data,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, 2014. 10 pages. M. Wöllmer and B. Schuller, “Probabilistic Speech Feature Extraction with Context-Sensitive Bottleneck Neural Networks,” Neurocomputing, Special Issue on Machines learning for Non-Linear Processing, vol. 132, pp. 113–120, May 2014. |
Quick Access to Details: | Current Activities Current Positions Short Biography Academic Genealogy Lecture Publications Invited Talks Keynotes, Tutorials, and Panels Organisation, Chairing, and Committee Memberships Awards Reviewing and Editorship Memberships and Listings Visitors and Team Projects |
2015 | Reader in Machine Learning (Associate Professor) in the Department of Computing, Logic and Artificial Intelligence Section, Imperial College London, London/UK. |
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Honoured as one of 40 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 by the World Economic Forum and Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions. | |
2014 | Chair (tenured Full Professor, Univ.-Prof., W3) heading the Chair of Complex and Intelligent Systems (initially Complex Systems Engineering), University of Passau, Passau/Germany. |
Appointed Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2015-2016 term). | |
2013 | Honorary Fellow and member of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) and TUM Junior Fellow. |
Recipient of an ERC Starting Grant (9% acceptance rate, iHEARu project). | |
President (elected) of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (former HUMAINE Association, registered charity in the UK, 2013-2015 term). | |
Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning in the Department of Computing, Logic and Artificial Intelligence Section, Machine Learning Group, Imperial College London, London/UK. | |
Interim Chair (Univ.-Prof., W3) heading the Institute for Sensor Systems, University of Passau, Passau/Germany. | |
Senior Lecturer (Akad. Oberrat, A14) heading the Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing Group (MISP) at Technische Universität München (TUM) in Munich/Germany. | |
Associate of the Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives (CISA), Université de Genève, Geneva/Switzerland. | |
Visiting Professor at the CISA, Université de Genève, Geneva/Switzerland. | |
Consultant of the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Joanneum Research, Graz/Austria. | |
Co-founder and CEO of audEERING UG in Gilching/Germany. | |
Visiting Professor (permanent) from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin/P.R. China. | |
2012 | TUM Adjunct Teaching Professor (Privatdozent). |
Guest Scientist (wiss. Angestellter) at the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Joanneum Research, Graz/Austria. | |
Habilitation (Dr. habil.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Subject Area Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence, from TUM. | |
2011 | Visiting Researcher in the Machine Learning Research Group, NICTA, Sydney/Australia. |
Visiting Lecturer (Erasmus Teaching Assignment) at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona/Italy. | |
2010 | Visiting Researcher in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London/UK. |
Researcher (Chercheur en Informatique, CDD) in the Spoken Language Processing Group, CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay/France. | |
2009 – 2010 | Research Engineer (Ingénieur Informaticien, CDD) in the Spoken Language Processing Group, CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay/France. |
2008 – 2013 | Lecturer (Akad. Rat, A13) at the Institute for Human-Machine Communication at TUM. |
2006 | Doctoral Degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from TUM. |
2002 – 2008 | Research Associate (Wiss. Assistent, C1) at the Institute for Human-Machine Communication at TUM. |
1999 – 2002 | Research Assistant (Wiss. Mitarbeiter, BAT IIa) at the Institute for Human-Machine Communication at TUM. |
1999 | Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from TUM. |