Listed in Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists Ranking, Elsevier, 2024.
ACM Distinguished Speaker for the term 2024-2027, ACM, 11.06.2024.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2014 and 2023), AMiner, 30.01.2024.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Speech Recognition between 2014 and 2023), AMiner, 30.01.2024.
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Björn Schuller, “For empirical and theoretical contributions to the development of computer audition, affective computing, and health informatics”, ACM, 2024.
2nd Place The 2nd e-Prevention challenge: Psychotic and Non-Psychotic Relapse Detection using Wearable-Based Digital Phenotyping, Second Track: Psychotic Relapse, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), IEEE, Seoul, Korea, 14.-19.04.2024.
SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award Honourable Mention Category of MM Interfaces & Applications, Florian Eyben, Felix Weninger, Florian Gross, Bjoern Schuller: “Recent developments in openSMILE, the Munich open-source multimedia feature extractor,” 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2013, pp. 835–838, New York, NY, USA, ACM, 2023.
Selected to serve as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer 2024 for the term 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2025, IEEE, 11.09.2023.
Best Paper Award CSMT 2023, Jingtan Li, Mengkai Sun, Zhonghao Zhao, Xingcan Li, Chen Wu, Kun Qian, Bin Hu, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Björn W. Schuller, “Battling with the Low-Resource Condition for Snore Sound Recognition: Introducing a Meta-Learning Strategy”, 10th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT 2023), Guangzhou, China, 02.-04.-06.2023.
Nominated for the 2023 IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize in Medical Engineering (6 finalists nominated), IET, 24.04.2023.
Computer Science Leader Award for 2023 (ranked 18 in UK), research.com, 28.03.2023.
2022 Outstanding Article Award, Frontiers in Computer Science, Adria Mallol-Ragolta, Anastasia Semertzidou, Maria Pateraki, Björn Schuller: “Outer Product-Based Fusion of Smartwatch Sensor Data for Human Activity Recognition”, Frontiers Media, Switzerland, 01.02.2023.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2013 and 2022, ranked #9 in the world), AMiner, 30.01.2023.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Speech Recognition between 2013 and 2022), AMiner, 30.01.2023.
Special Prize of Romanian Society of Biomedical Engineering, Maurice Gerczuk, Shahin Amiriparian, Anton Batliner, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Franziska Heyne, Marie Klockow, Björn W. Schuller, Thomas Hummel, “The Influence of Pleasant and Unpleasant Odours on the Acoustics of Speech”, 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB 2022), IEEE, Iasi, Romania, 17.-18.11.2022.
Outstanding Contribution Award in appreciation of service to AAIA 2022, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, AAIA, 10.2022.
Top Company 2022, audEERING GmbH, kununu, Vienna, Austria, 28.03.2022.
3rd Prize IEEE LifeTech 2022 Excellent Award for Online Poster Presentation, Yang Tan, Zhihua Wang, Kun Qian, Bin Hu, Shiliang Zhao, Björn W Schuller, Yamamoto Yoshiharu, “Heart Sound Classification based on Fractional Fourier Transformation Entropy”, IEEE 4th Global Conference on on Life Sciences and Technologies (IEEE LifeTech 2022), IEEE, Osaka, Japan, 07.-09.03.2022.
Best Paper Award, Thejan Rajapakshe, Rajib Rana, Sara Khalifa, Jiajun Liu, Björn Schuller, “A Novel Policy for Pre-trained Deep Reinforcement Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition”, 20th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2022) held online in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2022), ACM, online, Australia, 14.-18.02.2022.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Speech Recognition between 2012 and 2021), AMiner, 25.01.2022.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2012 and 2021), AMiner, 25.01.2022.
Fellow of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Society, Björn Schuller, elected for the Program Multimodal Learning Systems, 2021.
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), Björn Schuller, “For his contributions to the Affective Computing Field”, AAAC, 2021.
SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award Honourable Mention Category of MM Interfaces & Applications, Florian Eyben, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Schuller: “openSMILE – The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio Feature Extractor”, ACM Multimedia, MM 2010, pp. 1459-1462, ACM, 2021.
2nd Place Blue Sky Paper Award (including 750 USD travel grant), Björn Schuller, Tuomas Virtanen, Maria Riviero, Georgios Rizos, Jing Han, Annamaria Mesaros, Konstantinos Drosos, “Towards Sonification in Multimodal and User-friendly Explainable Artificial Intelligence”, 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021), ACM, Montreal, Canada, 18.-22.10.2021.
TCCLS Best Student Paper Award, 34th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2021), Mina A. Nessiem, Mostafa M. Mohamed, Harry Coppock, Alexander Gaskell, Björn W. Schuller, “Detecting COVID-19 from Breathing and Coughing Sounds using Deep Neural Networks”, IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Life Science (TCCLS), IEEE Computer Society, online, 07.-09.06.2021.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2011 and 2020, ranked #9 in the world), AMiner, 08.04.2021.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Speech Recognition between 2011 and 2020), AMiner, 08.04.2021.
Awardee (Preisträger) 12. Congress Awards Graz 2020 (1 of 4 awardees in 2020), 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2019), Gernot Kubin together with the Interspeech 2019 Organizing Committee Members, Graz, Austria, 2020.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Multimedia between 2009 and 2019, ranked #11 in the world), AMiner, 16.03.2020.
AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Speech Recognition between 2009 and 2019, ranked #13 in the world), AMiner, 16.03.2020.
Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), Björn Schuller, BCS, UK, 2020.
Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Björn Schuller, “For contributions to computational paralinguistics, and research and leadership in the speech processing community”, ISCA, 2020.
Golden Core Award, IEEE Computer Society, Class of 2019, IEEE, 2019.
Listed in “100 Top AI Leaders in AI in Drug Discovery and Advanced Healthcare” (#17 in the world, #4 in Europe, #1 in UK/Germany), Deep Knowledge Analytics (DKA), 2019.
VisionAward 2019 (3 winners of the main award), audEERING GmbH, Germany, 2019.
3. Main Prize (3. Hauptpreis) Bavarian Innovation Award (Bayerischer Innovationspreis, 178 finalists, given biannually by the Bavarian State Ministry), audEERING GmbH, Bavaria, Germany, 2018.
The Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark Distinctive Mention, MediaEval Workshop 2019, Shahin Amiriparian, Maurice Gerczuk, Eduardo Coutinho, Alice Baird, Sandra Ottl, Manuel Milling, Björn Schuller, “Emotion and Themes Recognition in Music Utilising Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks”, Sophia Antipolis, France, 27.-29.10.2019.
ICMI 2019 Best Paper Runner-Up, 21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019): Ognjen Rudovic, Meiru Zhang, Björn Schuller, Rosalind Picard, “Multimodal Active Learning From Human Data: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach”, ACM, Suzhou, P.R. China, 14.-18.10.2019.
MMSP2019-GAIN Best Paper Award, IEEE 21st International Workshop on Multimedia Processing (MMSP2019-GAIN): Lukas Stappen, Vincent Karas, Nicholas Cummins, Fabien Ringeval, Klaus Scherer, Björn Schuller, “From Speech to Facial Activity: Towards Cross-Modal Sequence-to-Sequence Attention Networks”, Global Artificial Intelligence Network (GAIN)/IEEE, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27.-29.09.2019.
Best Paper Nomination Award, 3rd International Symposium on Image Computing and Digital Medicine (ISICDM): Kun Qian, Hiroyuki Kuromiya, Zhao Ren, Maximilian Schmitt, Zixing Zhang, Toru Nakamura, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Björn Schuller, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, “Automatic Detection of Major Depressive Disorder via a Bag-of-Behaiour-Words Approach”, International Society of Digital Medicine, Xi’an, P.R. China, 24.-26.08.2019.
Selected as “Success Story”, EU Project EngageME (#701236, MSCA-IF 2015), “Therapeutic robots to help autistic children communicate”, EC, 2019.
Selected as “Success Story”, EU Project VocEmoApI (#230331, PoC 2015), EC, 2019.
3rd place (7 finalists, 1st place for audio+images only (w/o text)) One-Minute-Gradual Empathy Prediction Challenge (OMG-Empathy 2019), Generalized Track: Adria Mallol-Ragolta, Maximillian Schmitt, Alice Baird, Nicholas Cummins, Björn Schuller: “Performance Analysis of Unimodal and Multimodal Models in Valence-Based Empathy Recognition”, in conjunction with the IEEE Face & Gesture 2019, IEEE, Lille, France, 14.-18.05.2019.
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018): Gil Keren, Sivan Sabato, Björn Schuller, “Fast Single-Class Classification and the Principle of Logit Separation”, IEEE, Singapore, Singapore, 17.-20.11.2018.
2nd place (arousal overall, 1st place for audio-only for arousal and valence) One-minute Gradual Emotion Behavior Challenge (2018 OMG-Emotion Recognition Challenge): Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Hesam Sagha, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller: “audEERING’s approach to the One-Minute-Gradual Emotion Challenge”, in conjunction with the IEEE World Congress in Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2018), IEEE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 08.-13.07.2018.
Fellow of the IEEE, Björn Schuller, “For contributions to Computer Audition”, IEEE, 2018.
1st place: “Innovator of The Year” (16 finalists) of the Digital Marketing Innovation World Cup 2017: “Emotional and social AI technology by audEERING GmbH”, audEERING GmbH, Innovation World Cup, The Top 16 Tech Companies Disrupting Digital Marketing, dmexco, 13.09.2017. (“audEERING is a contributor of intelligent audio analysis and speech emotion recognition technology and one of the most relevant providers of next-generation artificial intelligence based on affective computing. audEERING’s Audio Intelligence technology analyzes audio signals to automatically detect emotions, personal information, environmental sounds and many more aspects to enable emotional artificial intelligence.”)
Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (6 finalists) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics – Taiwan (ICCE-TW 2017): Jian Guo, Kun Qian, Björn Schuller, Satoshi Matsuoka, “GPU-based Training of Autoencoders for Bird Sound Data Processing”, IEEE, Taipei, Taiwan, 12.-14.06.2017.
Gartner, Inc. “Vendor to Watch” (1 of 10): audEERING GmbH: “Market Trends: How AI and Affective Computing Deliver More Personalized Interactions With Devices“, Gartner, Inc., ID: G00315234, 31.05.2017.
Nominated Audio Mostly 2017 Best Paper Award, Alice Baird, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Simone Hantke, Nicholas Cummins, Björn Schuller, “Perception of Paralinguistic Traits in Synthesized Voices”, audio mostly 2017, ACM, London, UK, 23.-26.08.2017.
Honoured as one of 50 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 and “WEF Young Scientist”, World Economic Forum (WEF), 2016.
Innovationspreis IT “BEST OF 2016” CRM award: sensAI software, audEERING GmbH, Initiative Mittelstand, 2016.
Winner of the IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant 2016 honoring the student(s) of an outstanding paper in spoken language processing area accepted for publication in a conference (IEEE ICASSP) or a workshop (IEEE ASRU): George Trigeorgis, Erik Marchi with Fabien Ringeval, Raymond Brueckner, Mihalis Nicolaou, Björn Schuller, Stefanos Zafeiriou, “Adieu Features? End-to-end Speech Emotion Recognition using a Deep Convolutional Recurrent Network”, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2016.
Honoured as one of 40 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 and “WEF Young Scientist”, World Economic Forum (WEF), 2015.
Gold Paper Award 12th International Conference on Advancement in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2015): Nicolas Sabouret, Björn Schuller, Lucas Paletta, Erik Marchi, Hazaël Jones, Atef Ben Youssef, “Intelligent User Interfaces in Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion”, 12th International Conference on Advancement in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2015, Iskandar, Malaysia, ACM, 16.-19.11.2015.
Best result MediaEval 2015 Benchmark Affective Impact of Movies Task: George Trigeorgis, Eduardo Coutinho, Fabien Ringeval, Erik Marchi, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Björn Schuller: “The ICL-TUM-Passau Approach for the MediaEval 2015 “Affective Impact of Movies” Task”, Proc. of the MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, satellite of Interspeech 2015, ISCA, Wurzen, Germany, 03.09.2015.
MediaEval Distinctive Mention (MDM) 2015 (“for being an influential runner up team that provided open-source software we all used for a baseline”): Imperial College Team (group Schuller), MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, satellite of Interspeech 2015, ISCA, Wurzen, Germany, 03.09.2015.
Best Paper Prize 3rd International Workshop on Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI 2015) held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2015): Björn Schuller, Erik Marchi, Simon Baron-Cohen, Amandine Lassalle, Helen O’Reilly, Delia Pigat, Peter Robinson, Ian Davies, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Marwa Mahmoud, Ofer Golan, Shimrit Friedenson, Shahar Tal, Shai Newman, Noga Meir, Roi Shillo, Antonio Camurri, Stefano Piana, Alessandra Stagliano, Sven Bölte, Daniel Lundqvist, Steve Berggren, Aurelie Baranger, Nikki Sullings, Metin Sezgin, Nese Alyuz, ´ Agnieszka Rynkiewicz, Kacper Ptaszek, and Karol Ligmann: “Recent developments and results of ASC-Inclusion: An Integrated Internet-Based Environment for Social Inclusion of Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions”, Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (IDGEI 2015) as part of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2015, ACM, Atlanta, GA, 29.03.2014.
Best Student Paper Award AES 53rd International Conference Semantic Audio: Christian Kirst, Felix Weninger, Cyril Joder, Peter Grosche, Jürgen Geiger, Björn Schuller: “On-line NMF-based Stereo Up-Mixing of Speech Improves Perceived Reduction of Non-Stationary Noise”, AES 53rd International Conference Semantic Audio, AES, London, UK, 26.-29.01.2014.
2nd place (video emotion recognition task) and 3rd place (multi-modal task) Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MEC 2016), part of the 7th 2016 Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition (CCPR), Springer CCIS, Chengdu, China, 04.11.2016.
3rd place Best Poster award Symposium of the Austrian Physiological Society 2016: Florian B. Pokorny, Björn W. Schuller, Katrin D. Bartl-Pokorny, Christa Einspieler, Peter B. Marschik: “Contributing to the early identification of Rett syndrome: Automated analysis of vocalisations from the pre-regression period”, Symposium of the Austrian Physiological Society 2016, ÖPG, Graz, Austria, 07.10.2016.
2nd place Automatic Speech Recognition (22 finalists) REVERB Challenge 2014 held in conjunction with IEEE ICASSP 2014 and HSCMA 2014.
Best result MediaEval 2014 Benchmark Emotion in Music: Eduardo Coutinho, Felix Weninger, Klaus Scherer, Björn Schuller: “The Munich LSTM-RNN Approach to the MediaEval 2014 Emotion in Music Task”, MediaEval 2014 Workshop, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, 16.-17.10.2014.
Best result (3 finalists) MediaEval 2013 Benchmark Emotion in Music: Felix Weninger, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller: “The TUM Approach to the MediaEval Music Emotion Task Using Generic Affective Audio Features”, MediaEval 2013 Workshop, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, 18.-19.10.2013.
Honorable Mention (2nd place, 11 finalists) Open Source Software Competition ACM Multimedia 2013: Florian Eyben, Felix Weninger, Florian Groß, Björn Schuller: “Recent Developments in openSMILE, the Munich Open-Source Multimedia Feature Extractor”, Proc. 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2013), ACM, Barcelona, Spain, 21.-25.10.2013.
2nd place (11 finalists) IEEE AASP Challenge: Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (D-CASE) 2013 – Acoustic Scene Classification: Jürgen T. Geiger, Björn Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll: “Large-Scale Audio Feature Extraction and SVM for Acoustic Scene Classification”, 2013 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2013), New Paltz, NY, 20.-23.10.2013.
1st place (11 finalists) The 2nd `CHiME’ Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge 2013: Track 1 (Small Vocabulary): Jürgen T. Geiger, Felix Weninger, Antti Hurmalainen, Jort F. Gemmeke, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll, Tuomas Virtanen: “The TUM+TUT+KUL Approach to the CHiME Challenge 2013: Multi-Stream ASR Exploiting BLSTM Networks and Sparse NMF”, 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge held in conjunction with ICASSP 2013, IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, 01.06.2013.
Best Paper Award 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge held in conjunction with ICASSP 2013: Jürgen T. Geiger, Felix Weninger, Antti Hurmalainen, Jort F. Gemmeke, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll, Tuomas Virtanen: “The TUM+TUT+KUL Approach to the CHiME Challenge 2013: Multi-Stream ASR Exploiting BLSTM Networks and Sparse NMF”, Proc. 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge held in conjunction with ICASSP 2013, IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, 01.06.2013.
Honorable Mention (2nd place, 10 finalists) Open Source Software Competition ACM Multimedia 2010: Florian Eyben, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Schuller: “openSMILE – The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio Feature Extractor”, ACM Multimedia (MM), ACM, Firenze, Italy, 25.-29.10.2010.
1st place (18 finalists) Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2010: Audio Onset Detection: Sebastian Böck, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller: “Onset Detection with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks”, Annual Meeting of the MIREX 2010 community as part of the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR, Utrecht, Netherlands, 11.08.2010.
1st place (13 finalists) Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2010: Audio Beat Tracking: Sebastian Böck, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller: “Beat Detection with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks”, Annual Meeting of the MIREX 2010 community as part of the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR, Utrecht, Netherlands, 11.08.2010.
3rd place (24 finalists) Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2010: Audio Train/Test – Genre Classification (Latin): Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller: “Music Classification with the Munich openSMILE Toolkit”, Annual Meeting of the MIREX 2010 community as part of the 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR, Utrecht, Netherlands, 11.08.2010.
Best Demo Award 4th International HUMAINE Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2009 (ACII 2009): Marc Schröder, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Florian Eyben, Hatice Gunes, Dirk Heylen, Mark ter Maat, Sathish Pammi, Maja Pantic, Catherine Pelachaud, Björn Schuller, Etienne de Sevin, Michel Valstar, Martin Wöllmer: “A Demonstration of Audiovisual Sensitive Artificial Listeners”, HUMAINE, IEEE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10.-12.09.2009.