Publications
80+ Publications 18K Citations
Below are a selection of just some of the important peer reviewed publications that have been integral to the development of our technology
Understanding human behaviour based on face and voice analysis:
Spectral representation of behaviour primitives for depression analysis
S Song, S Jaiswal, L Shen, M Valstar
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Automatic detection of ADHD and ASD from expressive behaviour in RGBD data
S Jaiswal, MF Valstar, A Gillott, D Daley
2017 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture …
Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety
JO Egede, D Price, DB Krishnan, S Jaiswal, N Elliott, R Morriss, ...
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual …
Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study
J Egede, MJG Trigo, A Hazzard, M Porcheron, E Bodiaj, JE Fischer, ...
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual …
Self-supervised Learning of Person-specific Facial Dynamics for Automatic Personality Recognition
S Song, S Jaiswal, E Sanchez, G Tzimiropoulos, L Shen, M Valstar
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Affective Processes: stochastic modelling of temporal context for emotion and facial expression recognition
E Sanchez, MK Tellamekala, M Valstar, G Tzimiropoulos
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern …
How to distinguish posed from spontaneous smiles using geometric features
MF Valstar, H Gunes, M Pantic
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, 38-45
Personality Recognition by Modelling Person-specific Cognitive Processes using Graph Representation
Z Shao, S Song, S Jaiswal, L Shen, M Valstar, H Gunes
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 357-366
Fundamental face analysis
Fully automatic recognition of the temporal phases of facial actions
MF Valstar, M Pantic
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics) 42 …
Action unit detection using sparse appearance descriptors in space-time video volumes
B Jiang, MF Valstar, M Pantic
2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition …
Audio-Visual Predictive Coding for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning
MK Tellamekala, M Valstar, M Pound, T Giesbrecht
2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 9912-9919
Deep learning the dynamic appearance and shape of facial action units
S Jaiswal, M Valstar
2016 IEEE winter conference on applications of computer vision (WACV), 1-8
Local evidence aggregation for regression-based facial point detection
B Martinez, MF Valstar, X Binefa, M Pantic
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 35 (5), 1149-1163
Cascaded continuous regression for real-time incremental face tracking
E Sánchez-Lozano, B Martinez, G Tzimiropoulos, M Valstar
European Conference on Computer Vision, 645-661
A transfer learning approach to heatmap regression for action unit intensity estimation
I Ntinou, E Sanchez, A Bulat, M Valstar, Y Tzimiropoulos
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Social robotics and virtual assistants
Building autonomous sensitive artificial listeners
M Schroder, E Bevacqua, R Cowie, F Eyben, H Gunes, D Heylen, ...
IEEE transactions on affective computing 3 (2), 165-183
Databases, benchmarks, and tools
The semaine database: Annotated multimodal records of emotionally colored conversations between a person and a limited agent
G McKeown, M Valstar, R Cowie, M Pantic, M Schroder
IEEE transactions on affective computing 3 (1), 5-17
The first facial expression recognition and analysis challenge
MF Valstar, B Jiang, M Mehu, M Pantic, K Scherer
2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition …
Avec 2013: the continuous audio/visual emotion and depression recognition challenge
M Valstar, B Schuller, K Smith, F Eyben, B Jiang, S Bilakhia, S Schnieder, ...
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Audio/visual emotion …
The NoXi database: multimodal recordings of mediated novice-expert interactions
A Cafaro, J Wagner, T Baur, S Dermouche, M Torres Torres, C Pelachaud, ...
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal …
Web-based database for facial expression analysis
M Pantic, M Valstar, R Rademaker, L Maat
2005 IEEE international conference on multimedia and Expo, 5 pp.
For a complete set of relevant publications, please see Prof Valstar’s Google Scholar account.