Bio:
Björn W. Schuller received his diploma, doctoral degree, habilitation, and Adjunct Teaching Professor in Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing all in EE/IT from TUM in Munich/Germany where he is Full Professor and Chair of Health Informatics. He is also Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Head of GLAM at Imperial College London/UK, co-founding CEO and current CSO of audEERING, an Audio Intelligence company based near Munich and in Berlin/Germany, Core Member in the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), Principal Investigator in the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Fellow of the Imperial Data Science Institute, and permanent Honorable Dean at TJNU/China and Visiting Professor at HIT/China amongst other Professorships and Affiliations. Previous stays include Full Professor and Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the University of Augsburg/Germany, independent research leader within the Alan Turing Institute as part of the UK Health Security Agency, Guest Professor at Southeast University in Nanjing/China, Full Professor at the University of Passau/Germany, Key Researcher at Joanneum Research in Graz/Austria, and the CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay/France. He is a Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the IEEE and Golden Core Awardee of the IEEE Computer Society, Fellow of the BCS, Fellow of DIRDI, Fellow of the ELLIS, Fellow of the ISCA, Fellow and President-Emeritus of the AAAC, and Elected Full Member Sigma Xi. He (co-)authored 1,500+ publications (60,000+ citations, h-index=111), is Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Digital Health, Editor in Chief of AI Open and was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing amongst manifold further commitments and service to the community. His 50+ awards include having been honoured as one of 40 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 by the WEF in 2015. Currently, he was awarded ACM Distinguished Speaker for the term 2024-2027 and IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer 2024. He served as Coordinator/PI in 20+ European Projects, is an ERC Starting and DFG Reinhart-Koselleck Grantee, and consultant of companies such as Barclays, GN, Huawei, Informetis, or Samsung. Schuller counts more than 300 public press appearances including in Business Insider, Guardian, International Business Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, Times, The Economist 1843, UK Daily Mail, and national and international podcast, radio, and television contributions such as in MIT Technology Review and The World and The Why.
Björn Schuller organised the first-of-its-kind Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC) held eight times at ACM conferences since 2012 (ACM ICMI, ACM Multimedia) and the novel Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge (MuSe) held five times at ACM Multimedia since 2020. He is the key person behind the Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE) annually run since 2009 last held as Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia. Similarly, he co-organised the first Eating Tracking (EAT) and Personality Traits (MAPTRAITS) challenges (ACM ICMI), and 25 workshops at ACM events (e.g., ACM MM, CHI, FDG, ICMI, IUI). He is a Steering and Executive Committee Member of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) since 2019, has been General Chair of ACM ICMI in 2014, Program Chair in 2012 and 2019, Program Chair of ACM ICIMH 2022, Area Chair of ACM ICMI 2023 and 2012 and ACM Multimedia 2014, 42 times TPC Member of ACM conferences, Guest Editor for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, and on Interactive Intelligent Systems, reviewer for eight ACM journals, and is Co-editor of the ACM Handbook on Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces.
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Computer Audition The Era of Large Models
In this lecture, we delve into the fascinating field of Computer Audition Ð that is, hearing, understanding, and generating audio by computers powered by the latest advancements in Artificial...
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