Activities

1. Area Chair for the 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2025), Clearwater, USA, 26-30.05.2025.

2. Area Chair for the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2024), Chengdu, China, 20-24.10.2024.

3. Program Chair for the 11th AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing (ACII 2023), Boston (MA), USA, 10-13.09.2023.

4. Late Breaking Results Chair for the 11th AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing (ACII 2023), Boston (MA), USA, 10-13.09.2023.

5. Grand Challenge Chair for the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023), Paris, France, 09-13.10.2023.

6. Late Breaking Results Chair for the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), Bangalore, India, 07-11.11.2022.

7. Area Chair for the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2021), Chengdu, China, 20-24.10.2021.

8. Demo Chair for the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI 2021), Montreal, Canada, 18-22.10.2021.

9. Publication Chair for the 9th AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2021 (ACII 2021), IEEE/AAAC, Virtual Conference, 28.9-01.10.2021.

10. Area Chair for the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2020), Seattle, Oregon, USA, 12-16.10.2020.

11. Area Chair for the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2019), Nice, France, 21-25.10.2019.

12. Grand Challenge Chair for the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018), ACM, Boulder, Colorado, 16-20.10.2018.

13. Publication Chair for the 7th AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2017 (ACII 2017), IEEE/AAAC, San Antonio, Texas, 23-26.10.2017.

1. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 3rd Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge (REACT), Grand Challenge to be held at the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025), Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Xiangyu Kong, Hengde Zhu, Cheng Luo, Cristina Palmero, Germán Barquero, Sergio Escalera, Michel Valstar, Mohamed Daoudi, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth André, and Hatice Gunes, ACM, Dublin, Ireland, 27-31.10.2025.

2. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 1st Empathic Virtual Agent Challenge (EVAC), Grand Challenge held at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Integration (ICMI 2024), Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller, Gérard Bailly, Safaa Azzakhnini, and Hippolyte Fournier, ACM, San José, Costa Rica, 04-08.11.2024.

3. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 2nd Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge (REACT), Competition held at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2023), Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Germán Barquero, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Michel Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth André, and Hatice Gunes, IEEE, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-31.05.2024.

4. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 1st Multi-modal Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge (REACT), Grand Challenge held at the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2023), Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Cristina Palmero, German Barquero, Hengde Zhu, Sergio Escalera, Michel Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth Andre, and Hatice Gunes, ACM, Ottawa, Canada, 29.10-03.11.2023.

5. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 9th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC 2019) held in conjunction with the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2019), Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Nicholas Cummins, Roddy Cowie, and Maja Pantic, ACM, Nice, France, 21-25.10.2019.

6. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC 2018), held in conjunction with the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2018), Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Roddy Cowie, and Maja Pantic, ACM, Seoul, Korea, 22.10.2018.

7. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 7th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC 2017), held in conjunction with the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2017), Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Jonathan Gratch, Roddy Cowie, and Maja Pantic, ACM, Brisbane, Australia, 23.10.2017. 

8. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 6th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC 2016), held in conjunction with the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2016), Michel Valstar, Jonathan Gratch, Björn Schuller, Fabien Ringeval, Roddy Cowie, and Maja Pantic, ACM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16.10.2016. 

9. Organisation and Co-Chair of the 5th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AV+EC 2015), held in conjunction with the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2015), Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller, Michel Valstar, Roddy Cowie, and Maja Pantic, ACM, Brisbane, Australia, 26.10.2015. 

10. Organisation and Co-Chair of the INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistic Challenge (ComParE), held at INTERSPEECH 2014, ISCA, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julien Epps, Florian Eyben, Fabien Ringeval, Erik Marchi, and Yue Zhang, Singapore, Republic , 14-18.09.2014

11. Organisation and Co-Chair of the INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistic Challenge (ComParE), held at INTERSPEECH 2013, ISCA, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Klaus Scherer, Fabien Ringeval, and Mohamed Chetouani, Lyon, France, 25-29.08.2013

1. Organisation and Co-Chair of the Workshop on Tools and Technologies for Emotion Awareness in Computer-Mediated Collaboration and Learning, Gaëlle Molinari, Guillaume Chanel, Kristin Lund, Armin Weinberger, Denis Lalanne, and Fabien Ringeval, Alpine Rendez-Vous 2013, Villard-de-Lans, Vercors, France, 31.01-01.02.2013

Post-doctoral researchers

• Mr. Hippolyte Fournier (LIG, UGA, March 2023 - March 2025): "Cognitive psychology for modelling human attention and affective behaviours"; now with Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EMC), Université Lyon 2, as post-doctoral fellow.

• Ms. Safaa Azzakhnini (LIG, UGA, May 2023 - April 2025): "Automated Facial Expressions Analysis for Emotion Recognition".

• Mr. Sina Alisamir (LIG, UGA, November 2023 - January 2025): "Machine Learning of Emotional Expressions In the Wild from Acoustic Signals and Text"; now with T2i France as a research engineer.

Invited researchers

• • Ms. Mariá Inmaculada Mohíno Herranz (MISP, TUM), Visiting Doctoral Student, August – October 2014 (University of Alcál, Madrid, Spain): "Emotion recognition through analysis of biological signals, including ECG, EEG, thoracic impedance, GSR, temperature and speech".

  • Mr. Jouni Pohjalainen (CIS, U. Passau), Visiting Doctoral Student, October – December 2015 (University of Aalto, Espoo, Finland): "Robust short-term features and long-term modelling methods".

PhD Thesis

• • Mr. Sina Alisamir (LIG, UGA, November 2019 - October 2023): "Machine Learning of Emotional Expressions In the Wild from Acoustic Signals and Text"; now with T2i France as a research engineer.

  • Ms. Yongxin Zhou (LIG, UGA, December 2020 - November 2024): "Towards Affect-Aware Natural Language Generation: Enhancing Medical Reporting and Dialogue Summarization"; now with Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, University Grenoble Alpes as a post-doctoral fellow.

  • Mr. Yuxuan Zhang (LIG, UGA, August 2024 - July 2027): "Prediction of customer satisfaction from large-scale voice call data"

Research Engineers

• • Mr. Ilyes Boutyarzisset (LIG, UGA, Janvier - Août 2022)

  • Ms. Eleonore Tran (EMC, Lyon 2, November 2020 - October 2021)

  • Mr. Gurpratap Siggh Paul (LIG, UGA, September - October 2021)

  • Mr. Kevin Bérenger (EMC-LIG, Lyon 2-UGA, December 2020 - November 2021)

Master Thesis

• • Mr. Romain Fernandez (LIG, UGA, 2023): "Contextualised affective computing using human-machine interaction scenarios"; now with the LIDILEM, Université Grenoble Alpes as PhD student.

  • Mr. Pierre-Raphaël Wözny (LIG, UGA, August 2022): "Segmentation de parole par détection d'activité vocale pour l’interaction avec un assistant virtuel"; now with Insee as software engineer.

  • Ms. Ziyi Tong (LIG, UGA, September 2021): "Self-supervised modelling of affective speech"

  • Mr. Eric Le Ferrand (LIG/GIPSA-LAB, UGA, January 2018): "Analysis of audiovisual markers of perceived speech intelligibility"

  • Ms. Valery Verdenet (LIG/Lab-STICC, UGA/UBO/UBS, September 2017): "Extraction of knowledge in a corpus of scientific publications and ontological modeling of citation contexts" (Extraction de connaissances dans un corpus de publications scientifiques et modélisation ontologique des contextes de citation).

  • Ms. Mouna Labiadg (LIG, UGA, June 2017): "Voice activity detection for voice controlled home automation".

  • Ms. Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju (LIG, UGA, June 2017): "Automatic prediction of spontaneous laughter from audiovisual data".

  • Mr. Benjamin Helgert (CIS, U. Passau, July 2016): "Automatic speaker diarisation for social signal processing".

  • Mr. Lorenz Wendlinger (CIS, U. Passau, September 2016): "Rhythmic based Bag-of-Audio-Words for emotion recognition".

  • Mr. Tomasz Jacykiewicz (DIVA, UNIFR, February 2014): "Automatic recognition of laughter using verbal and non-verbal acoustic features". 

  • Ms. Samaneh Soleimani (DIVA, UNIFR, December 2013): "Augmented video conferencing by multimodal emotion recognition". 

  • Mr. Hervé Sierro (DIVA, UNIFR, January 2013): "Automatically detected acoustic landmarks for assessing natural emotion from speech". 

  • Mr. Alistair Doswald (DIVA, UNIFR, November 2012): "Using biosignals to control the Nao robot"; work selected for the best master thesis award from the Swiss Informatics Society. 

  • Ms. Anissa Aroua (ISIR, UPMC, September 2009): "Utilisation d'unités rythmique pour la modélisation de la prosodie verbale: Application à la reconnaissance des émotions". 

  • Ms. Claire Rossignol (ISIR, UPMC, September 2008): "Caractérisation du rythme de la parole pour l'analyse des troubles autistiques". 

  • Mr. Mounir Ben Hadid (ISIR, UPMC, September 2008): "Évaluation et amélioration d'un détecteur de voyelles pour la reconnaissance des émotions". 

  • Mr. Houssem Halalchi (ISIR, UPMC, September 2008): "Étude de structures prosodiques pour la reconnaissance des émotions en contexte multilingue".

  • Ms. Yasmine-Fatima Hammiche (ISIR, UPMC, September 2007): "Analyse et développement d'un système de reconnaissance d'émotions appliqué à l'autisme".

Internships (Master 1)

• • Mr. Buchra Aboubakr (LIG, UGA, January 2018): "Adaptive compensation of non-linearity in human's judgment for robust dimensional emotion recognition"

  • Ms. Stéphanie Barona (LIG, UGA, January 2018): "Acoustic scenes classification in elementary schools for speech effort analysis"

  • Mr. Max Beaubois (LIG, UGA, January 2018): "Don't take it too personal! Holistic recognition of human behaviours"

  • Mr. Adrien Michaud (LIG, UGA, January 2018): "Real-time adaptive Human-Computer Interface driven by affective behaviours"

  • Mr. Bashar Qamhiyeh (LIG, UGA, January 2018): "Automatic speech recognition for dimensional emotion recognition"

  • Mr. Julien Teulle (LIG, UGA, January 2018): "Automatic prediction of the level of depression from audiovisual data with bags-of-words"

  • Mr. Shaheer Ahmad Khan (LIG, UGA, June 2017): "Pseudo-multimodal emotion recognition by cross-modal information compensation".

  • Mr. Ahmed Zrigui (LIG, UGA, June 2017): "Holistic emotion recognition from multimodal data".

Temporary research assistant (Master 1)

• • Mr. Joseph Beau-Reder (LIG, UGA, January - June 2022): "Segmentation and transcription of verbal data and non verbal behaviours on the THERADIA WoZ corpus"

  • Mr. Béranger Despeisse (LIG, UGA, January - June 2022): "Segmentation and transcription of verbal data and non verbal behaviours on the THERADIA WoZ corpus"

  • Ms. Elena Martel (LIG, UGA, January - June 2022): "Segmentation and transcription of verbal data and non verbal behaviours on the THERADIA WoZ corpus"

  • Mr. Romain Fernandez (LIG, UGA, January - June 2022): "Segmentation and transcription of verbal data and non verbal behaviours on the THERADIA WoZ corpus"

  • Ms. Sophie Paturel (LIG, UGA, January - February 2022): "Segmentation and transcription of verbal data and non verbal behaviours on the THERADIA WoZ corpus"

Bachelor Thesis

• • Mr. Tobias Kirschstein (CIS, U. Passau, October 2016): "Adieu features? End-to-end emotion recognition from physiological signals".

  • Ms. Annika Briegleb (MMK, TUM, January 2016): "Why that face? Gaze-based analysis of human observers' reaction to time-continuous emotional stimuli". 

Internship (Bachelor)

• • Ms. Maud Costa (LIG, UGA, July 2022): "Analysis and Annotation of Interactions Between Older Adults and a Virtual Assistant: Toward a Taxonomy of Use Scenarios Based on the THERADIA WoZ"

• Examiner responsible for the written report (rapporteur) - Sandhya: "Application of Deep Learning Models for Detecting Forgeries in Digital Videos", Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India, 10.2024.

• Committee member (examinateur) - Théo Deschamps: "Multimodal Emotion Recognition for Emergency Calls using Transformer Models", Université Paris Saclay, LISN-CNRS, France, 09.07.2024.

• Advisory committee 1st year (comité de suivi individuel 1ère année) - Quentin Senant: "Modélisation par Réseaux de Neurones Artificiels des Facteurs Psychologiques Descendants de la Cognition à la Perception" , Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition CNRS, France, 10.06.2024.

• Advisory committee 2nd year (comité de suivi individuel 2ème année) - Yajing Feng: "End-to-End Continuous Speech Emotion Recognition in Real-life Customer Service Call Center Conversations" , Université Paris Saclay, LISN-CNRS, France, 04.07.2023.

• Examiner responsible for the written report (rapporteur) - Nancy Mehta: "Modern Trends in Deep Learning Based Super-Resolution", Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Department of Electrical Engineering, India, 05.2023.

• Committee member (examinateur) - Salam Hamieh: "Leveraging Anomaly Detection for Affective Computing Applications", Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA-LETI, France, 19.02.2023.

• Examiner responsible for the written report (rapporteur) - Julian David Fritsch: "Novel Methods For Detection And Analysis Of Atypical Aspects In Speech", Université de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland, 15.02.2023.

• Examiner responsible for the written report (rapporteur) - Shruti Shantiling Phutke: "Deep Generative Architectures for Image Impainting", Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Department of Electrical Engineering, India, 12.2022.

• Advisory committee 2nd year (comité de suivi individuel 2ème année) - Salam Hamieh: "Detection of Atypical Human Mental States using un/semi/-supervised Learning Techniques", Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA-LETI, France, 11.09.2022.

• Committee member (examinateur) - Manon Macary: "Analyse de données massives en temps réel pour l’extraction d’informations sémantiques et émotionnelles de la parole", Le Mans Université, LIUM, France, 24.06.2022.

• Examiner responsible for the written report (rapporteur) - Praful Hambarde: "Deep Learning Based Approaches for Single Image Depth Estimation", Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Department of Electrical Engineering, India, 06.2022.

• Advisory committee 1st year (comité de suivi individuel 1ère année) - Salam Hamieh: "Detection of Atypical Human Mental States using un/semi/-supervised Learning Techniques", Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA-LETI, France, 18.10.2021.

• Examiner responsible for the written report (rapporteur) - Johnathan (Jonny) O'Dwyer: "Head- and Eye-based Features for Continuous Core Affect Prediction", Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland, 10.2020.

• Committee member (examinateur) - Leila Kerkeni: "Analyse acoustique de la voix pour la détection des émotions du locuteur", Le Mans Université, LAUM, France, 09.12.2019.

• Committee member (examinateur) - Valentin Barrière: "Analyse d'opinion dans les interactions orales", Université Paris Saclay, Telecom Paris Tech, France, 15.04.2019.

• Research Agencies / Councils

  1. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, since 2024.

  2. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands, since 2019.

  3. National Association of Research and Technology (ANRT), France, since 2018.

  4. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, Université Paris Saclay, since 2018.

  5. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada, since 2015.

  6. French National Research Agency (ANR), France, since 2014. 

• Journals

• 1. Neurocomputing, Elsevier, since 2021 (IF: 5.719 (2020))

  2. PLoS ONE, Public Library of science, since 2017 (IF: 2.806 (2016)).

  3. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, since 2017 (IF: 3.509, 5-year IF: 4.103 (2016)).

  4. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Acoustic, Language, and Speech Processing (TASLP), since 2016 (IF:2.491, 5-year IF: 2.501 (2016)).

  5. Psychophysiology, Society for Psychophysiological Research, Wiley, since 2016 (IF: 2.668 (2016)).

  6. Expert Systems With Applications, Elsevier, since 2016 (IF: 3.928, 5-year: 3.526 (2016)).

  7. Health and Technology, Springer Verlag, since 2015 (3-year IF: 1.079 (2016)). 

  8. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), since 2014 (IF: 6.108 (2016)).

  9. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, since 2014 (IF: 7.384 (2016)). 

  10. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing (JASMP), European Association for Signal Processing, SpringerOpen, since 2014 (IF: 1.579, 5-year IF: 1.340). 

  11. Pattern Recognition Letters (PatRec), ELSEVIER, since 2014 (IF: 1.995, 5-year IF: 2.164 (2016)). 

  12. Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC), 2020-2024.

  13. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC), since 2013 (IF: 3.149, 5-year IF: 4.728 (2016)).

  14. Computer Speech and Language (CSL), ELSEVIER, since 2011 (IF: 1.900, 5-year IF: 1.938 (2016)).

• Conferences and Technical Program Committee membership

• 1. INTERSPEECH 2025 (reviewer) — 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association,  ISCA,  Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 17-21.8.2025.

  2. ICASSP 2025 (reviewer) — 50th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Hyderabad, India, 06-11.04.2025.

  3. ICMI 2024 (reviewer) — 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, San José, Costa Rica, 04-08.11.2024.

  4. INTERSPEECH 2024 (reviewer) — 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association,  ISCA,  Kos Island, Greece, 01-05.09.2024.

  5. ICASSP 2024 (reviewer) — 49th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Seoul, Korea, 14-19.04.2024.

  6. ICMI 2023 (reviewer) — 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Paris, France, 09-13.10.2023.

  7. INTERSPEECH 2023 (reviewer) — 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association,  ISCA,  Dublin, Ireland, 20-24.08.2023.

  8. ICASSP 2023 (reviewer) — 48th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Rhodes Island, Greece, 04-10.06.2023.

  9. ACII 2022 (reviewer)— 9th AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Nara, Japan, 18-21.10.2022.

  10. INTERSPEECH 2022 (reviewer) — 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association,  Incheon, Korea, 18-22.09.2022.

  11. ICASSP 2022 (reviewer) — 47th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, 22-27.05.2022.

  12. ICMI 2021 (reviewer) — 23rd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Montreal, Canada, 18-22.10.2021.

  13. SPECOM 2021 (reviewer) — 23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer, ISCA, St Petersburg, Russia, 27-30.09.2021.

  14. INTERSPEECH 2021 (reviewer) — 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association,  ISCA,  Brno, Czechia, 30.08-02.09.2021.

  15. ICASSP 2021 (reviewer) — 46th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 06-11.06.2021.

  16. AAAI-21 (reviewer) — 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, Virtual Conference, 02-09.02.2021.

  17. ICMI 2020 (Senior Program Committee) — 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 25-29.10.2020.

  18. INTERSPEECH 2020 (reviewer) — 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association,  ISCA,  Shanghai, China, 25-29.10.2020.

  19. ACM MM 2020 (reviewer) — 28th International Conference on Multimedia, ACM, Seattle, USA, 12-16.10.2020.

  20. SPECOM 2020 (reviewer) — 22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer, ISCA, Virtual conference, 06-10.10.2020.

  21. ICASSP 2020 (reviewer) — 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Barcelona, Spain, 04-08.05.2020.

  22. AAAI-20 (reviewer) — 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, New York, New York, USA, 07-12.02.2020.

  23. ACM MM 2019 (reviewer) — 27th International Conference on Multimedia, ACM, Nice, France, 21-25.10.2019.

  24. SPECOM 2019 (reviewer) — 22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer, ISCA, St. Petersburg, Russia, 6-10.10.2019.

  25. INTERSPEECH 2019 (reviewer) — 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Graz, Austria, 15-19.09.2019.

  26. ICMI 2019 (Senior Program Committee) — 21st International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 14-18.10.2019

  27. ACII 2019 (Senior Program Committee) — 8th AAAC International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Cambridge, UK, 03-06.09.2019.

  28. INTERACT  2019 (reviewer) —  17th  IFIP  TC.13  International  Conference  on  Human-Computer  Interaction,  IFIP,  Paphos,  Cyprus,  2-6.09.2019.

  29. IJCAI 2019 (reviewer) — 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence,Macao, China, IJCAI, 10-16.08.2018.

  30. ICASSP 2019 (reviewer) — 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society,Brighton, United Kingdom, 12-17.05.2019.

  31. ACM MM 2018 (reviewer) — 26th International Conference on Multimedia, ACM, Seoul, Korea, 22-26.10.2018.

  32. ICMI 2018 (reviewer) — 20th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Boulder, Colorado, 16-20.10.2018.

  33. ICMI EAT 2018 (reviewer) — 1st Audio/Visual Eating Analysis & Tracking Challenge, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 16-20.10.2018.

  34. INTERSPEECH 2018 (reviewer) — 19th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Hyderabad, India, 2-6.09.2018.

  35. IJCAI-ECAI 2018 (reviewer) — 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, IJCAI, EurAI, SAIS, 13-19.07.2018.

  36. ICASSP 2018 (reviewer) — 43rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Calgary, Canada, 15-20.04.2018.

  37. ICMI 2017 (reviewer) — 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17.11.2017.

  38. ACM MM 2017 (reviewer) — 25th International Conference on Multimedia, ACM, Mountain View (CA), USA, 23-27.10.2017.

  39. INTERSPEECH 2017 (reviewer) — 18th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-24.08.2017.

  40. WASA 2017 (reviewer) — 12th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, Guilin, China, 19-21.06.2017.

  41. ICASSP 2017 (reviewer) — 42nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, New Orleans, Louisiane, USA, 5-9.03.2017. 

  42. MALSIP 2016 (reviewer) — International Conference on Machine learning and Signal Processing, Springer, Jakarta, Indonesia, 20-22.09.2016. 

  43. ICMI 2016 (reviewer) — 18th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Tokyo, Japan, 12-16.11.2016.

  44. ACM MM 2016 (reviewer) — 24th International Conference on Multimedia, ACM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15-19.10.2016.

  45. INTERSPEECH 2016 (reviewer) — 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, San Fransico, USA, 08-12.09.2016.

  46. EUSIPCO 2016 (reviewer)— 24th European Signal Processing Conference, European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), Budapest, Hungary, 29.08-02.09.2016. 

  47. ES3 2016 (reviewer) — International Workshop on Emotion & Sentiment Analysis, satellite of LREC 2016, ELRA, Portoroz, Slovenia, 23.05.2016.

  48. ICASSP 2016 (reviewer) — 41st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Shanghai, China, 20-25.03.2016. 

  49. MALSIP 2015 (reviewer) — International Conference on Machine learning and Signal Processing, Springer, Melaka, Malaysia, 15-17.12.2015. 

  50. ICMI 2015 (reviewer) — 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Seattle, WA, 09-13.11.2015. 

  51. GCPR 2015 (reviewer) — 37th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Springer LNCS, Aachen, Germany, 06.-09.10.2015. 

  52. ACII 2015 (reviewer) — 6th International AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Xi'an, PR China, 21-25.09.2015. 

  53. INTERSPEECH 2015 (reviewer) — 16th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Dresden, Germany, 06-10.09.2015. 

  54. EUSIPCO 2015 (reviewer) — 23rd European Signal Processing Conference, European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), Nice, France, 31.08-04.09.2015. 

  55. ICASSP 2015 (reviewer) — 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Brisbane, Australia, 19-24.04.2015. 

  56. ICMI 2014 (reviewer) — 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-16.11.2014. 

  57. INTERSPEECH 2014 (reviewer) — 15th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Singapore, Singapore, 14-18.09.2014. 

  58. IJCNN 2014 (reviewer) — International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, Beijing, China, 06-11.07.2014 

  59. ICASSP 2014 (reviewer) — 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Kyoto, Japan, 04-09.05.2014. 

  60. INTERSPEECH 2013 (reviewer) — 14th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Lyon, France, 24-29.08.2013. 

  61. INTERSPEECH 2012 (reviewer) — 13th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, Portland, USA, 09-13.09.2012. 

• Workshops/challenge

  1. GEM2 2025 (reviewer) — 4th Workshop on Generation, Evaluation & Metrics, ACL, Seoul, South Korea, 27.07-01.08.2025.

  2. SASB 2024 (reviewer) — 1st Workshop on Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond, ICASSP 2024, Seoul, South Korea, 14.04.2024.

  3. MuSe 2022 (reviewer) — 3rd Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge, ACM Multimedia, Lisbon, Portugal, 10.10.2022.

  4. SmiLa 2022 (reviewer) — 1st Workshop on Smiling and Laughter across Contexts and the Life-span, Workshop of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France, 20-25.06.2022. 

  5. EmotiW 2020 (reviewer)— 8th Emotion Recognition in the Wild challenge, in conjunction with ICMI, ACM, Montreal, Canada, 25.10.2020.

  6. EmotiW 2019 (reviewer) — 7th Emotion Recognition in the Wild challenge, in conjunction with ICMI, ACM, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 18.10.2019.

  7. ICMI EAT 2018 (reviewer) — 1st Audio/Visual Eating Analysis & Tracking Challenge, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 16-20.10.2018.

  8. EmotiW 2017 (reviewer) — 5th Emotion Recognition in the Wild challenge, in conjunction with ICMI, ACM, Glasgow, UK, 13.11.2017.

  9. DAL-COM 2017 (reviewer) — 1st International Workshop on Deep Affective Learning and Context Modelling, in conjunction with CVPR, IEEE, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 26.07.2017.

  10. ES3 2016 (reviewer) — International Workshop on Emotion & Sentiment Analysis, satellite of LREC 2016, ELRA, Portoroz, Slovenia, 23.05.2016.

  11. WASA 2015 (reviewer) — 1st International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis in the Wild, held in conjunction with ACII 2015, IEEE, Xi'an, PR China, 21.09.2015. 

  12. ES3 2012 (reviewer) — 4th International Workshop on Emotion Sentiment & Social Signals - Corpora for Research on Emotion, Sentiment & Social Signals, held in conjunction with LREC 2012, ELRA, Istanbul, Turkey, 26.05.2012.