May 2024: General Chair of 7th ABAW Workshop and Competition at ECCV 2024
April 2024: Co-organizer of 2nd MRAC Workshop at ACM-MM 2024
April 2024: PhD examiner for Niki Foteinopoulou on 'Deep Learning Methods for Affect and Schizophrenia Symptom
Estimation'April 2024: 3 workshop papers accepted at IEEE CVPR 2024
April 2024: Three UG students started their internship on violence detection and affect recognition in my lab
March 2024: Dr Safiye Ghasemi (a visiting Academic & Researcher) started her work under my mentoring and supervision
March 2024: Co-organizer of 1M-Deepfakes Detection Grand Challenge (just started) at ACM-MM 2024
March 2024: PhD examiner for Weiwei Cui on 'AI-based Dentistry Image Segmentation'
March 2024: A conference paper accepted at IEEE FG 2024
February 2024: Two conference papers accepted at ISBI 2024 and Computing Conference 2024
February 2024: Four PG students started their internship on multimodal AI in my lab
January 2024: Co-organizer of DEF-AI-MIA Workshop and 4th COV19D Competition (just started) at IEEE CVPR 2024
January 2024: General Chair of 6th ABAW Workshop and Competition (just started) at IEEE CVPR 2024
December 2023: One conference paper accepted at AAAI 2024
December 2023: One conference paper accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2024
December 2023: Chunchang Shao started his PhD at QMUL on face analysis (supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kollias; co-
supervisor: Prof. Ioannis Patras)December 2023: Delivered a presentation of our group's overall work to Minister Camilleri, the Minister of Gozo (Malta)
November 2023: Seminar delivered for an ECCS Research Sandpit (QMUL)
November 2023: Awarded the 'Sullivan Thesis Prize' by British Machine Vision Association at BMVC 2023
October 2023: PhD examiner for Thomas Bangert on 'Color: an Algorithmic Approach'
October 2023: Assessor for Innovate UK's Bridge AI program
October 2023: Keynote talk delivered at 9th Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (EmotiW), ACM ICMI 2023
October 2023: A UG student started his internship on multimodal AI in my lab
October 2023: A machine learning engineer started his internship on multimodal AI in my lab
October 2023: A PG student started his internship on multimodal AI in my lab
Sept. 2023: Guanyu Hu started his associate research under my supervision at QMUL on affective computing
Sept. 2023: Damith Senadeera started his PhD at QMUL on violence detection (supervisor: Prof. Greg Slabaugh; co-
supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kollias)August 2023: Keynote talk delivered at IEEE Segah 2023 conference
August 2023: Suleiman Abuu, my supervisee, was nominated for the best UG project and showcase video award
August 2023: Awarded the 'Distinguished Scientist Award' by the Greek National Ministry of Defence
July 2023: Co-organization and Call for papers of REACT 2023 Workshop at ACM-MM 2023
July 2023: 1 journal paper accepted and published at Neurocomputing
June 2023: Organization and chairing of 5th ABAW Workshop and Competition (>100 attendees)
June 2023: 1 conference paper accepted and presented at IEEE CVPR 2023
June 2023: 1 workshop paper accepted and presented at IEEE CVPR 2023
June 2023: Organization and chairing of AI-MIA-COV19D Workshop and Competition (>40 attendees)
June 2023: 2 workshop papers accepted and presented at IEEE ICASSP 2023 [1] [2]
June 2023: 1 journal paper accepted at BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations