Björn Schuller
Björn W. Schuller received his diploma in 1999 and his doctoral degree for his study on Automatic Speech and Emotion Recognition in 2006, both in electrical engineering and information technology from TUM (Munich University of Technology), one of Germany's repeatedly highest ranked and among its first three Excellence Universities. He is tenured as Senior Lecturer in Pattern Recognition and Speech Processing heading the Intelligent Audio Analysis Group at TUM’s Institute for Human-Machine Communication since 2006. From 2009 to 2010 he lived in Paris/France and was with the CNRS-LIMSI Spoken Language Processing Group in Orsay/France dealing with affective and social signals in speech. In 2010 he was also a visiting scientist in the Imperial College London's Department of Computing in London/UK working on audiovisual behaviour recognition. In 2011 he was guest lecturer at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) in Ancona/Italy and visiting researcher of NICTA in Sydney/Australia. Best known are his works advancing Human-Computer-Interaction, Semantic Audio and Audiovisual Processing, Affective Computing, and Music Information Retrieval. Dr. Schuller is a member of the ACM, HUMAINE Association, IEEE and ISCA and (co-)authored 3 books and more than 250 publications in peer reviewed books (20), journals (31), and conference proceedings in the field of signal processing, and machine learning leading to more than 2,300 citations - his current H-index equals 25. He serves as member and secretary of the steering committee, associate editor, and guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, associate and repeated guest editor for the Computer Speech and Language, associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part B Cybernetics and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and guest editor for the IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine, Speech Communication, Image and Vision Computing, Cognitive Computation, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, reviewer for more than 40 leading journals and 30 conferences in the field, and as workshop and challenge organizer including the first of their kind INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion, 2010 Paralinguistic, 2011 Speaker State, and 2012 Speaker Trait Challenges and the 2011 and 2012 Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop and programme committee member of more than 30 international workshops and conferences. Steering and involvement in current and past research projects includes the European Community funded ASC-Inclusion STREP project as coordinator and the awarded SEMAINE project, and projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and companies such as BMW, Continental, Daimler, HUAWEI, Siemens, Toyota, and VDO. Advisory board activities comprise his membership as invited expert in the W3C Emotion Incubator and Emotion Markup Language Incubator Groups, and his repeated election into the Executive Committee of the HUMAINE Association where he chairs the Special Interest Group Speech.
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