Professional Activities
Guest Editing
Guest Editor (together with G. Castellano and B. Mutlu) of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Research Topic on Affective and Social Signals for HRI, 2016 - 2017.
Guest Editor (together with Albert Ali Salah, Hayley Hung, Oya Aran, and Matthew Turk) of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Behavior Understanding for Arts and Entertainment , 2013 - 2015.
Guest Editor (together with Bjoern Schuller) of Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue on Affect Analysis in Continuous Input , 2013 - doi: 10.1016/j.imavis.2012.12.002
Guest Editor (together with Eva Hudlicka) of International Journal of Synthetic Emotions , on Benefits and Limitations of Continuous Representations of Emotions in Affective Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, January-June 2012.
Committees
President-Elect the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) (2016 - present)
Elected Member of the Management Board of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) (2016 - present)
Chair of Steering Board of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2017 - present)
Steering Committee Member of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2013 - 2017)
Member of IEEE Technical Committee on Social Signal Processing (2012 - 2014)
Editorial Board
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2015 - present).
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2016 - present).
Associate Editor for Image and Vision Computing(2017 - present).
Review Editor for Frontiers's Human-Media Interaction -- A specialty section of Frontiers in Psychology and ICT (2014 - present).
International Journal of Computer Vision & Signal Processing (IJCVSP) (2010 - 2011).
Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives, D. Gokcay & G. Yildirim (Eds.), IGI Global, 2011.
Workshop/Conference Organisation
Program Chair at IEEE FG 2017 , IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, May – June 2017, Washington DC, USA.
Open Source Software Competition Chair at ACM Multimedia 2018 , ACM International Conference on Multimedia, October 2018, Seul, Korea.
Associate/Area Chair at ACM/IEEE HRI 2017 – ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Vienna, Austria, Mar. 2017.
Session Chair at IEEE RO-MAN 2016 – IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Columbia University, New York City, USA, Aug. 2016.
Associate Editor at IEEE RO-MAN 2016 – IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Columbia University, New York City, USA, Aug. 2016.
Area Chair for Adaptive, Intelligent & Multimodal User Interfaces Area at ACM UMAP 2016 – ACM Int’l Conf. on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Jul. 2016.
Grand Challenge Chair at ACM ICMI 2016 , ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, November 2016, Japan.
Area Chair at ACM Multimedia 2015 , 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 26-30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia. Organiser and Chair (together with B. Schuller, M. Pantic, and R. Cowie) of EmoSPACE 2015 , 3rd Int'l Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space, in conjunction with IEEE FG 2015 4-8 May 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Workshop Chair at ACII 2015 , 6th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Sep. 2015, Xi’an, China.
Doctoral Consortium Chair at IEEE FG 2015 , 11th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 4-8 May 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Organiser and Chair (together with B. Schuller, O. Celiktutan Dikici, E. Sariyanidi, and F. Eyben) of MAPTRAITS 2014 , 1st Int'l audio/visual Mapping Personality Traits Challenge and Workshop, in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey on 12 November 2014.
Area Chair at ACM Multimedia 2014 , 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 3-7 November 2014, Orlando, FL, USA.
Multimodal Grand Challenge Chair at ACM ICMI 2014 , 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 12-16 November 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
Area Chair at ICMI 2013 , 15th ACM Int'l Conference on Multimodal Interaction , Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2013.
Workshop Chair (together with A. Salah, H. Hung, and O. Aran) of HBU 2013 , 4th Int'l Workshop on Human Behaviour Understanding: Interactions in Arts, Creativity, Entertainment and Edutainment, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2013, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2013.
Area Chair at ACII 2013 , 5th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Sep. 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.
Area Chair at IEEE ICME 2013 , IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Jul. 2013, San Jose, California, USA.
Poster Session Chair at IEEE FG 2013, 10th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Apr. 2013, Shanghai, China. Workshop Chair (together with B. Schuller, M. Pantic, and R. Cowie) of EmoSPACE 2013 , 2nd Int'l Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space, in conjunction with IEEE FG 2013 in Shanghai on the 22/26 of April, 2013.
Workshop Chair (together with H. K. Ekenel) of AC4MobHCI 2012, International Workshop on Affective Computing for Mobile HCI,17-18 Sep. 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
General Workshop Chair (together with G. Castellano) of BCS HCI 2012 , 12-14 Sep. 2012, Birmingham, UK.
Workshop Chair (together with B. Schuller, M. Pantic, and R. Cowie) of EmoSPACE , 1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE , in conjunction with IEEE FG 2011 Santa Barbara, California, USA, 24/25 March 2011.
Reviewer for Research Funding Bodies
Proposal Reviewer for EPSRC, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK.
Proposal Reviewer for SNSF , the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Proposal Reviewer for CHIST-ERA, the European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies ERA-Net.
Proposal Reviewer for RANNIS , the Icelandic Center for Research.
Proposal Reviewer for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Reviewing papers for journals
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Computing
Journal of Machine Vision and Applications
Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
International Journal of Robotics and Automation
Journal of The Franklin Institute: Engineering and Applied Mathematics
Conference & Workshop Program Committee Member
ACVR 2016, ECCV 2016 Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR), 9 October 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
ETHI-CA 2016, LREC 2016 Workshop on Ethics in Corpus Collection, Annotation and Application, 24 May 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia.
HRI 2016, 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), 7-10 March 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand.
WASE 2016, the 1st International Workshop on Affective Software Engineering, 11 - 14 Sep. 2016, Gdansk, Poland.
IEEE CVPR 2015, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015), 7-12 June 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
MMML 2015, NIPS Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning, 11 December 2015, Montreal, Canada.
BMVC 2015, 26th British Machine Vision Conference, 7 – 10 September, Swansea, UK.
IEEE FG 2015 , 11th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 4-8 May 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
ACII 2015 , 6th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Sep. 2015, Xi’an, China.
ASSP4MI 2015,Int'l Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing, November 13, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA.
ACM CC15, ACM Creativity and Cognition 2015, 22-25 June 2015, Glasgow, UK.
PAMUR 2015, 1st International Workshop on Personality and Affect in Multimedia Retrieval, held in conjunction with ICMR 2015, Shanghai, China.
FERA 2015 , Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge 2015, held in conjunction with IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
ACM ICMI 2014, 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 12-16 November 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
ECCV 2014, European Conference on Computer Vision, Zurich, Switzerland, 6-12 Sep. 2014.
BMVC 2014, the British Machine Vision Conference, Nottingham, UK, Sep. 2014.
ICPR 2014, 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Stockholm, Sweden, 24-28 Aug, 2014.
ACM ICMI 2014 Doctoral Consortium , 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 12-16 November 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
AVEC 2014, 4th International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop, organised in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA, Nov. 2014.
EmotiW 2014, 2nd Emotion Recognition In The Wild Challenge and Workshop (EmotiW), organised in conjunction with the 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 12-16 November 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
CV4AC 2014, Computer Vision for Affective Computing Workshop, organised in conjunction with the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014), Singapore, 1-6 Nov. 2014)
ES³LOD 2014, 5th International Workshop on EMOTION, SOCIAL SIGNALS, SENTIMENT & LINKED OPEN DATA , organised in conjunction with 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Reykjavik, Iceland, 26-31 May 2014.
MAC 2014, 1st Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Affective Computing, organised in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Chengdu, China, 14 Jul. 2014.
Special Session on Recognition Of Affect Signals from PhysiologIcal Data for Social Robots (OASIS 2014), organised in conjunction with the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 Jan. 2014.
SBA 2013 , Int'l Workshop on Social Behaviour Analysis 2013, organised in conjunction with the International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Acores, Italy, 11-13 Sep. 2013.
EmotiW 2013 , Emotion Recognition In The Wild Challenge, organised in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2013, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2013.
AVEC 2013, 3rd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop, organised in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2013, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2013.
AFFINE 2013, the 5th Workshop on Affective Multimodal Interaction in Natural Environments, in conjunction with ACII 2013, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2013.
BCS HCI 2013 , 27th Int'l British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference, Brunel University, UK, 9 -13 Sep. 2013.
ACM CHI 2013, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France, Apr. 27-May 2, 2013.
EPIA 2013, 16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acores, Portugal, Sep., 2013.
IEEE FG 2013, IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Shanghai, China, Apr. 22-26, 2013.
IEEE ICME 2013, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, San Jose, CA, USA, Jul. 15-19, 2013.
ECCV BeFIT 2012, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies, in conjunction with the ECCV 2012, Firenze, Italy, Oct. 13, 2012.
ACCV 2012 Workshop on Face Analysis: The Intersection of Computer Vision and Human Perception, in conjunction with the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2012), Daejeon, Korea, Nov. 6th, 2012.
Workshop on Exploring Stances in Interactions : Conceptual and Practical Issues in Social Signal Processing Research, in conjunction with SocialCom 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 3 Sep. 2012.
WS3P 2012 : First International Workshop on Wide Spectrum Social Signal Processing, in conjunction with SocialCom 2012, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 3 Sep. 2012.
AVEC 2012, 2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop, organised in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2012, Santa Monica, California, USA, Oct. 2012.
ACM ICMI 2012, 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Santa Monica California, USA, Oct. 22-26 2012.
SocialCom 2012, the ASE/IEEE Social Computing 2012 Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 3-6 Sep. 2012.
ICPR 2012, 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, Nov. 11-15, 2012.
ES³, 4th International Workshop on Corpora for Research on EMOTION SENTIMENT & SOCIAL SIGNALS, in conjunction with LREC 2012, May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
IROS 2012 , EEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 7-12, 2012, Algarve, Portugal
IEEE ICME 2012, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Melbourne, Australia, 2012.
IEEE ICRA 2012, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minnesota, USA, May 2012.
SIU 2012, 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, April 2012, Mugla, Turkey.
ACM ICMI 2011, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Alicante, Spain, Nov. 14-18, 2011.
EmoGames 2011, ACII 2011 Workshop: Emotion in Games, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Oct. 9, 2011.
IWEC-2011, 2nd International Workshop on Empathic Computing, Hanoi, Vietnam, 17 Oct. 2011.
AVEC 2011, 1st International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop, organised in conjunction with ACII 2011, Memphis, TN, USA, 9 Oct. 2011.
CVPR4HB 2011, Fourth IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, organised in conjunction with CVPR 2011, Colorado Springs, USA, June 25 2011.
SSP 2011, IEEE SMC Special session on Social Signal Processing, organised in conjunction with IEEE SMC 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 9-12 October 2011.
EPIA 2011, The 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 10-13 2011.
ACII 2011, The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Oct. 9-12, 2011.
IEEE ICME 2011, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Barcelona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011.
Cognition and AI, Special Track at the 24rd International FLAIRS Conference in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Florida, USA, May 2011.
FERA 2011, The Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge, in conjunction with the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2011), Santa Barbara, California, USA, March 2011.
DICTA 2010, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Sydney, Australia, 1-3 Dec. 2010.
ICMI 2010, the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Beijing ,China, November 8-12, 2010.
Measuring Behavior 2010, the 7th Int. Conf. on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 24 - 27 August 2010.
AFFINE 2010, the 3rd Workshop on Affective Multimodal Interaction in Natural Environments, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010, Firenze, Italy, 25-29 October 2010.
BCS HCI 2010, the 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, 6th-10th September 2010.
IEEE ICME 2010, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Singapore, July 19-23, 2010.
ISCIS 2010, the 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, London, UK, 22-24 September 2010.
SIU 2010, IEEE 18.Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, Diyarbakir, Turkey, 22-24 April, 2010.
DICTA 2009, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2009.
ACM ICMI 2009, the 11th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Cambridge, MA, USA, Nov. 2009.
BCS HCI 2009, The 23rd BCS conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cambridge, U.K., 2009.
ACII 2009, The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep. 2009.
ACII 2009 Doctoral Consortium, The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep. 2009.
IEEE SMC 2008, The IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Singapore, Oct. 2008.
DICTA 2008, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Canberra, Australia, Dec. 2008.
ECAG08, Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition , Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sep. 2008.
CHI 2008, The 26th ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Florence, Italy, Apr. 2008.
DICTA 2007, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, Adelaide, Australia, Dec. 2007.
ACM ICMI 2007, the 9th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 2007.
ACII 2007, the Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2007.
VisHCI 2006, the HCSNet Workshop on the Use of Vision in HCI, Canberra, Australia, Nov. 2006.
IEEE AVSS 2006, International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 2006.
IEEE ICIP 2005, International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, Sep. 2005.
ICITA 2004, Second International Conference on Information Technology & Applications, Harbin, China, Jan. 2004.
Society/Network Membership
Member of IEEE since 1999.
Member of ACM since 2004.
Member of HUMAINE Association , the EU-funded network of excellence for research on emotions and Human-Machine Interaction.
Member of IEEE Women in Engineering.
Member of HCSNet, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Network in Human Communication Sciences since 2005.