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Theses Reviewing
Habilitation Examiner
- Habilitation Thesis Rapporteur, Nicolas Obin: “De la représentation du signal à l’apprentissage de représentations: Modélisation structurée de signaux de parole”, IRCAM, Paris, France, 2023.
- Habilitation Thesis Examiner, Patrick Krauss: “Language Processing in Artificial Neural Networks and the Human Brain”, FAU, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2022.
- Habilitation Thesis Examiner, Jörn Anemüller: “On Some Statistical Approaches to Information Processing – Principles, Models, and Applications”, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, 2020.
- Habilitation Thesis Examiner, Ronald Böck: “Anticipate the User: Multimodal Analyses in Human-Machine Interaction towards Group Interaction”, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, 2020.
- Habilitation Thesis Rapporteur, Kévin Bailly: “Apprentissage automatique pour l’analyse des expressions faciales”, UPMC, Paris, France, 2019.
- Habilitation Thesis Rapporteur, Chloé Clavel: “Analyse des opinions dans les interactions : de la fouille de données à l’interaction humain-agent”, LTCI-CNRS, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris, France, 2017.
- Habilitation Thesis Rapporteur, Matthieu Geist: “Contrôle optimal et apprentissage automatique, applications aux interactions homme-machine”, Université de Lille 1, Lille, France, 2016.
PhD Examiner
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Alexandros Haliassos: “Learning From Talking Faces: From DeepFake Detection to Speech Recognition”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Konstantinos Barmpas: “From Thought to Action: Enhancing Motor-Imagery Brain Computer Interfaces Through Deep Learning”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Liu Li: “Robust Topology-Preserving Segmentation in Medical Images”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis External Examiner, Wen Wu: “Speech-Based Emotion Modelling and Mental Disorder Detection”, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Alexandros Haliassos: “Learning From Talking Faces: From DeepFake Detection to Speech Recognition”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Annalisa Baronetto, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Haluk Hekimoglu: “Active Learning for Autonomous Driving:”, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Robert Richer: “Digital Health Psychology – Wearable and Mobile Technologies to Advance Biopsychological Stress Research”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner: “Audio-visual speech generation and representation learning”, Triantafyllos Kefalas, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2023.
- Doctoral Thesis External Examiner: “Deep Learning Methods for Affect and Schizophrenia Symptom Estimation”, Nikki Maria Foteinopoulou, Queen Mary University London, London, UK, 2024.
- Doctoral Thesis External Examiner, Markus Hofmarcher: “Sample Efficient Deep Learning Methods for Reinforcement Learning and Bioimaging”, Johann Kepler University, Linz, Austria, 2023.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Sebastian Soller: “Anomaly Detection and Forecasting Techniques and their Applications Scenarios, Challenges and Limits in Industrial Production Settings”, University of Passau, Passau, Germany, 2023.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Bernhard Bermeitinger: “Investigating a Second-Order Optimization Strategy for Neural Networks”, University of Passau, Passau, Germany, 2023.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Yannis Tevissen: “Diarisation du locuteur dans le domaine des médias”, Télécom-SudParis, Paris, France, 2023.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Juan Fernando Vazquez Rodriguez: “Transformers Multimodaux pour la Reconnaissance des Emotions”, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, 2023.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Eric Guizzo: “Techniques for Enhancing Generalization of Speech Emotion Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks”, City University London, London, UK, 2023.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Anushree Basu, “Identification of Stress through Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Facial Thermograms”, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, 2022.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Khaled Koutini: “Inductive Bias in Learning Robust Audio Representations”, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, 2022.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Hannes Ritschel: “Real-Time Generation and Adaptation of Social Companion Robot Behaviors”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2022.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Shivani Yadav: “Analysis of vocal sounds in asthmatic patients”, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, 2022.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Stephan Brehm: “Image Manipulation and Image Synthesis Applications and Use-Cases using Deep Neural Networks”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2022.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Oral Examiner, Philipp Harzig: “Automatic Generation of Natural Language Descriptions of Visual Data”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2022.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Philip Nadler: “Parameter Learning in Time Series: From Static to Dynamic Approaches”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2022.
- Doctoral Thesis Go/No-Go External Assessor, Francisca Pessanha, “Oral History Archives”, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Markos Georgopoulos: “Bias in Deep Learning and Applications to Face Analysis”, Imperial College London, UK, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Thomas Schirgi: “CaRE – Multimedia Assistance Systems for Singletons Does IT help?”, TU Graz, Graz, Austria, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Mitberichter), Michael Neumann: “Multiclass Speech Emotion Recognition with Neural Networks: Investigations on Aspects of Input Data, Multilingual Modeling, and Data Scarcity”, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Andreas Seiderer: “Nutzung von IoT-Technologien und Mobile Computing zur Verbesserung des menschlichen Wohlbefindens”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Haoyang Wang: “Deep Deformable Models for 3D Human Body”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Yiming Lin: “Deep Face Tracking and Parsing in the Wild”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Asif Jalal: “Learning Attention Mechanisms and Context: An Investigation into Vision and Emotion”, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Christoph Janott: “Machine Learning Strategies for the Acoustic Interpretation of Snoring Noise”, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Examinateur, Léo Hémamou: “Analyse Automatique des Comportements Multimodaux lors d’Entretiens Vidéo Différés pour le Recrutement”, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France, 2021.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Catherine Taleb: “Parkinson’s disease Detection by Multimodal Analysis Combining Handwriting and Speech Signals”, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France, 2020.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Simon Flutura: “Mobile Social Signal Interpretation in the Wild for Wellbeing”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2020.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Early Stage Reviewer, Abhinav Shukla: “Audiovisual Recognition of Emotional Speech by Unsupervised Multimodal Representation Learning”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2020.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Kritaphat Songsri-in: “Deep Learning for Facial Analysis”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2020.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Jie Pu: “Machine Learning Methods for Audio-Visual Event Analysis”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2020.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Mareike Buhl: “Towards machine learning in audiology: Introducing Common Audiological Functional Parameters (CAFPAs) to support audiological diagnostics”, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, 2020.
- Doctoral Theses Examiner, Xinyuan Qian: “Multi-target Localization and Tracking using Audio-visual Signals”, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, 2020.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Mengjiao Wang: “Multilinear Methods for Disentangling Variations”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2019.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Laetitia Jeancolas: “Early detection of Parkinson disease with voice recordings”, CNRS SAMOVAR, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France, 2019.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Christoph Janott: “Machine Learning in Snoring Classification”, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2019.
- PhD Examiner, Surjya Ghosh: “Developing Smartphone Keyboard Interaction based Emotion Detection System”, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, 2019.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Caroline Etienne: “Apprentissage profond appliqué à la reconnaissance des émotions dans la voix”, Université Paris 11, Paris, France, 2019.
- PhD Thesis Referee, Anirban Dasgupta: “Systems and Methods for the Assessment of Cognitive Loading using Oculography”, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2019.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Veronica Morfi: “Automatic detection and classification of bird sounds in low-resource wildlife audio data”, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, 2019.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Christian Eggert: “Reliable Company Logo Detection with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Mélanie Ducoffe: “Active Learning and Input Space Analysis for Deep Networks”, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Reviewer, Filomena Scibelli: “Detection of verbal and non-verbal speech features as markers of depression: results of manual analysis and automatic classification”, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Member of Jury, Meshia Cedric Oveneke: “Computer Vision and Machine Learning approaches for Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions”, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Tobias Baur: “Cooperative and Transparent Machine Learning for the Context-Sensitive Analysis of Social Interactions”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Caroline Langlet: “Analyse des Sentiments dans les Conversations Humain-Agent : Vers un Modèle des Goûts de l’Utilisateur”, LTCI-CNRS, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris, France, 2018.
- PhD Jury Member, Jaebok Kim:”Automatic recognition of engagement and emotion of children in group-play”, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Mohammed Hajaj: “Investigating the Behavior of Deep Convolution Networks in Image”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2018.
- PhD Early Stage Assessor, Nicholas Thapen: “Separating Style and Content in Natural Language”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2018.
- PhD Thesis Examiner, Suman Deb: “Stressed Speech Analysis for Assessment of Emotion and Physical Health”, IIT Guwahati, India, 2018.
- PhD Thesis Review Committee Member, Juliane Schmidt: “Listening for the WHAT and the HOW: Older adults’ processing of semantic and affective information in speech”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Florian Lingenfelser: “Event-driven Fusion for Multimodal Affect Recognition”, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, 2018.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Arie Nugraha: “Réseaux de neurones profonds pour la séparation des sources et la reconnaissance robuste de la parole (Deep neural networks for source separation and noise-robust speech recognition)”, University of Lorraine / INRIA Nancy – Grand Est, Nancy, France, 2017.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Vladimir Gligorijevic: “Methods for Analysis and Integration of Heterogeneous Network Data”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2017.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Braja Gopal Patra: “Music Mood Classification: A Multimodal Computational Approach”, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2017.
- Doctoral Thesis Mid-term Examiner, Arie Nugraha: “Audio source separation by combining multichannel models and deep neural networks”, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, 2016.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Siddarth Sigtia: “Neural Networks for Analysing Music and Environmental Audio”, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, 2016.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Ashley Daniel Gritzman: “Adaptive Threshold Optimisation for Colour-based Lip Segmentation in Automatic Lip-Reading Systems”, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2016.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Florian Hönig: “Automatic Assessment of Prosody in Second Language Learning”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 2016.
- Doctoral Thesis Co-Examiner, Victor Tomashevich: “Fault Tolerance Aspects of Virtual Massive MIMO Systems”, University of Passau, Passau, Germany, 2016.
- Doctoral Thesis Examinateur, Jérémie Nicolle: “Reading Faces using Hard Multi-Task Metric Learning for Kernel Regression”, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2016.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner, Lazaros Zafeiriou: “Unsupervised Analysis of Behaviour
Dynamics”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2016.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Johannes Wagner: “Social Signal Interpretation: Building Online Systems for Multi-modal Behaviour Analysis”, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany, 2015.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Fan Yang: “Détection de marqueurs affectifs et attentionnels de personnes âgées en interaction avec un robot”, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France, 2015.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Baveye Yoann: “Automatic Prediction of Emotions Induced by Movies”, Ecole Centrale de Lyon/Technicolor, Lyon, France, 2015.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Michael (Mihalis) A. Nicolaou: “Machine Learning for Automatic Analysis of Affective Behaviour”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2014.
- Opponent PhD dissertation, Pasi Saari: “Content and Context-based Approaches to Prediction of Mood in Music”, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2014.
- Doctoral Thesis Pre-Reviewer, Jouni Pohjalainen: “Robust Feature Extraction of Speech”, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland, 2014.
- Doctoral Thesis Internal Examiner, Jie Shen: “Synchronisation and integration of modules for audiovisual behaviour understanding”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2014.
- Doctoral Thesis Transfer Examiner, Christos Georgakis: “Visual detection of native/non-native speakers”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2014.
- Doctoral Thesis Rapporteur, Clément Chastagnol: “Reconnaissance automatique des dimensions affectives dans l’interaction orale homme-machine pour des personnes dépendantes”, Université Paris 11, Paris, France, 2013.
- Doctoral Thesis Examinateur, Gelareh Mohamed: “Automatic Personality Perception: Inferring Personality Traits from Nonverbal Vocal Behavior”, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013.
- Doctoral Thesis Examiner (Zweitgutachter), Christian Plahl: “Neural Network based Feature Extraction for Speech and Image Recognition”, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 2013.
- PhD Thesis Examiner Seliz Gülsen Karadogan: “Towards Cognizant Hearing Aids: Modeling of Content, Affect and Attention”, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, 2012.
- PhD Thesis Rapporteur Christophe Vaudable: “Analyse et reconnaissance des émotions lors de conversations de centres d’appels”, Université Paris 11, Paris, France, 2012.
- PhD Thesis Examinator Tet Fei Yap: “Speech production under cognitive load: Effects and classification”, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2011.
- PhD Thesis Examinateur Thibaud Senechal: “Ce que le visage révèle : Analyse des mouvements faciaux pour l’interprétation émotionnelle”, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, Paris, France, 2011.
- PhD Thesis Examinateur Fabien Ringeval: “Ancrages et modèles dynamiques de la prosodie : application à la reconnaissance des émotions actées et spontanées”, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, Paris, France, 2011.
- PhD Thesis Examinator Gordon James McIntyre: “The Computer Analysis of Facial Expressions: On the Example of Depression and Anxiety”, Faculty of Information Sciences & Engineering, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia, 2010.
- PhD Thesis Examinator Julia Sidorova: “Optimization Techniques for Speech Emotion Recognition”, Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
Master’s and Bachelor’s Theses 2nd Marker
- Ben Thompson (2nd Marker, Undergraduate Individual Project, Imperial College London, 06/2014): Secure Online Coding Platform
- Clément Jambou (2nd Marker, MSc Individual Project, Imperial College London, 09/2014): Generating Music with Recurrent Neural Networks and other deep learning techniques
- Georgios Papamakarios (2nd Marker, MSc Individual Project, Imperial College London, 09/2014): Robust Low-Rank Modelling on Matrices and Tensors
- Cai Wenyang (2nd Marker, MSc Individual Project, Imperial College London, 09/2014): Detect eating and talking from webcam videos
- Liu Zhuolin (2nd Marker, MSc Individual Project, Imperial College London, 09/2014): Face Liveness Recognition
- Vincent Zhang (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 05/2015): Deep Learning for Facial Expression Analysis
- Lingyu Lu (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 05/2015): Application on unstructured big data platform
- Ian Billett (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 05/2015): Exploring the Networks of Academic Literature
- Dimitrios Kollias (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 09/2016): An End-to-End Deep Neural Architecture for Dimensional Emotion Recognition
- Ye Zhou (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 09/2016): Data Mining for Chinese Left-behind Children Problem
- Michael Arcangeles (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 09/2016): Automated Lip-reading in the Wild
- Zukang Liao (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 09/2016): Deep Neural Networks for Age and Gender Classification
- Jie Pu (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 09/2016): Audio-associated visual object detection and segmentation using low rank and sparsity.
- Feipeng Cai (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 09/2016): Unsupervised Learning of Video Representations Using Recurrent Neural Networks
- Rajkumar Conjeevaram Mohan (2nd Marker, Individual Project MSc, Imperial College London, 09/2016): Speech Recognition using Deep Learning
- Liu, Zichen (2nd marker, Undergraduate Individual Project, Imperial College London, 06/2017): Machine Learning For Filtering Monte Carlo Noise In Ray Traced Images
- Gökce Iymen (Master’s Thesis Examiner, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2022): Intelligible Emotional Voice Conversion with StarGAN assisted by DTW and Speaker Classifier