List of Publications

2023

B. E. Fan, N. T. E. Kwok, D. T. Y. Chen, K. Ponnudurai, S. T. B. A. Latiff, M. S. Wong, Y. X. Ong, K. G. E. Lim, W. Y. K. Wong, S. P. Lim, B. S. J. Yong, H. Shanmugam, Y. S. Neo, S. Winkler
Artificial intelligence-generated peripheral blood film images using generative adversarial networks and diffusion models.
American Journal of Hematology, vol. 98, no. 9, pp. 1499-1502, Sept. 2023.
V. Schlegel, H. Li, Y. Wu, A. Subramanian, T.-T. Nguyen, A. R. Kashyap, D. Beck, R. T. Batista-Navarro, S. Winkler, G. Nenadic.
PULSAR at MEDIQA-Sum 2023: Large Language Models Augmented by Synthetic Dialogue Convert Patient Dialogues to Medical Records.
ImageCLEF, Proc. 14th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) (2nd place in MEDIQA-Sum task), Thessaloniki, Sept. 18-21, 2023.
Additional resources: PULSAR code used in the paper.
M. Jain, N. Jain, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler, S. Dev.
Transfer learning for cloud image classification.
Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Pasadena, CA, July 16-21, 2023.
T.-T. Nguyen, V. Schlegel, A. Kashyap, S. Winkler.
A two-stage decoder for efficient ICD coding.
Proc. 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Toronto, July 9-14, 2023.
H. Li, Y. Wu, V. Schlegel, R. Batista-Navarro, T.-T. Nguyen, A. R. Kashyap, X. Zeng, D. Beck, S. Winkler, G. Nenadic.
PULSAR: Pre-training with extracted healthcare terms for summarising patients' problems and data augmentation with black-box large language models.
Proc. 22nd BioNLP workshop, co-located with 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (2nd place in problem list generation task), Toronto, July 13, 2023.
Additional resources: PULSAR code used in the paper.
D. Neo, T. Chen, S. Winkler
Large-scale facial expression recognition using dual-domain affect fusion for noisy labels.
Proc. 5th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW), in conjunction with IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Vancouver, June 19, 2023.
B. E. Fan, D. T. Y. Chen, K. Ponnudurai, S. T. B. A. Latiff, M. S. Wong, Y. X. Ong, K. G. E. Lim, W. Y. K. Wong, P. W. E. Chiang, S. P. Lim, H. Shanmugam, Y. S. Neo, N. T. E. Kwok, S. Winkler
Artificial Intelligence generated leukemia cell images.
American Journal of Hematology, vol. 98, no. 7, pp. 1160-1162, July 2023.
A. Kashyap, T.-T. Nguyen, V. Schlegel, S. Winkler, S.-K. Ng, S. Poria.
Beyond Words: A comprehensive survey of sentence representations.
eprint arXiv:2305.12641, May 2023.
B. E. Fan, D. T. Y. Chen, Y. X. Ong, K. G. E. Lim, W. Y. K. Wong, Y. P. J. Ong, Y. S. Neo, P. W. E. Chiang, S. T. B. A. Latiff, S. P. Lim, M. S. Wong, H. Shanmugam, S. Winkler, K. Ponnudurai
A real-world evaluation of a semi-supervised Artificial-Intelligence model (ASUS Blade) with the Cellavision DM9600.
Proc. International Symposium on Technical Innovations in Laboratory Hematology (ISLH), New Orleans, LA, May 11-13, 2023.
T.-T. Nguyen, V. Schlegel, A. Kashyap, S. Winkler, S.-S. Huang, J.-J. Liu, C.-J. Lin.
MIMIC-IV-ICD: A new benchmark for eXtreme MultiLabel Classification.
eprint arXiv:2304.13998, April 2023.

2022

S. Xu, Z. Yang, D. Chakraborty, Y. H. V. Chua, T. Serenella, S. Winkler, M. Birnbaum, B.-L. Tan, J. Lee, J. Dauwels.
Identifying psychiatric manifestations in schizophrenia and depression from audio-visual behavioural indicators through a machine-learning approach.
Schizophrenia, vol. 8, no. 92, Nov. 2022.
W. Chen, S. L. B. Chua, S. Winkler, S.-K. Ng.
Trusted Media Challenge dataset and user study.
Proc. 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Atlanta, GA, Oct. 17-21, 2022.
Y. Yazıcı, B. Lecouat, K.-H. Yap, S. Winkler, G. Piliouras, V. Chandrasekhar, C.-S. Foo.
Mixed membership generative adversarial networks.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Bordeaux, Oct. 16-19, 2022.
C. F. Foo, S. Winkler.
Image data augmentation with unpaired image-to-image camera model translation.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Bordeaux, Oct. 16-19, 2022.
B. E. Fan, D. T. Y. Chen, S.-Y. Hsu, H.-H. Yang, S. T. B. A. Latiff, K. G. E. Lim, Y. X. Ong, M. S. Wong, S. Winkler, K. Ponnudurai.
Real-world evaluation of a semi-supervised artificial-intelligence model trained on 185,412 cells for identification of white blood cells.
Proc. 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) - CLINICCAI Workshop, Singapore, Sept. 18-22, 2022.
C. Chen, S. Winkler.
Generating near-infrared facial expression datasets with dimensional affect labels.
eprint arXiv:2206.13887, June 2022.
A. Shukla, S. S. Gullapuram, H. Katti, M. Kankanhalli, S. Winkler, R. Subramanian.
Recognition of advertisement emotions with application to computational advertising.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 781-792, April 2022.
Additional resources: Video ad dataset used in the study.
B. E. Fan, S. S. Y. Wang, M. Y. N. Aw, M. F. Chia, D. T. Y. Chen, K. Ramanathan, M. S. Wong, K. Ponnudurai, S. Winkler.
Artificial intelligence in peripheral blood films: An evolving landscape.
The Lancet Haematology, vol. 9, no. 3, E174, March 2022.
L. Zhang, S. Peng, S. Winkler.
PersEmoN: A deep network for joint analysis of apparent personality, emotion and their relationship.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 298-305, Jan. 2022.
Additional resources: Training code for the network described in the paper.

2021

M. Jain, N. Jain, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler, S. Dev.
Detecting blurred ground-based sky/cloud images.
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS) and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Singapore, Dec. 4-10, 2021.
Additional resources: Python code for the experiments discussed in the paper.
S. Winkler, W. Chen, A. Dhall, P. Korshunov.
ADGD’21: 1st Workshop on Synthetic Multimedia - Audiovisual Deepfake Generation and Detection.
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Chengdu, Oct. 20-24, 2021.
V. Vonikakis, D. Neo, S. Winkler.
MorphSet: Augmenting categorical emotion datasets with dimensional affect labels using face morphing.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, AK, Sept. 19-22, 2021.
Additional resources: Python code of the framework described in the paper.
V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler.
Efficient facial expression analysis for dimensional affect recognition using geometric features.
eprint arXiv:2106.07817, June 2021.

2020

J. Bitoun, S. Winkler.
HelipadCat: Categorised helipad image dataset and detection method.
Proc. IEEE Region 10 International Conference (TENCON), Osaka, Japan, Nov. 16-19, 2020.
Additional resources: HelipadCat dataset and code described in the paper.
Y. Yazıcı, C.-S. Foo, S. Winkler, K.-H. Yap, V. Chandrasekhar.
Empirical analysis of overfitting and mode drop in GAN training.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Oct. 25-28, 2020.
V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler.
Identity-invariant facial landmark frontalization for facial expression analysis.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Oct. 25-28, 2020.
Additional resources: Python code of the method described in the paper.
M. Jain, S. Manandhar, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler, S. Dev.
Forecasting precipitable water vapor Using LSTMs.
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS) and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 5-10, 2020.
Additional resources: Python code for the experiments discussed in the paper.

2019

S. Winkler.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen.
Digital Europe, pp. 75-78, H. Hösele and L. Wieser (eds.), Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt, 2019.
S. Dev, A. Nautiyal, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
CloudSegNet: A deep network for nychthemeron cloud image segmentation.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 1814-1818, Dec. 2019.
Additional resources: SWINySEG dataset described in the paper.
L. Lévêque, S. Dev, M. Hossari, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Subjective quality assessment of ground-based camera images.
Proc. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Xiamen, China, Dec. 17-20, 2019.
T. A. Fathima, V. Nedumpozhimana, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler, S. Dev.
A chaotic approach to solar irradiance forecasting.
Proc. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Xiamen, China, Dec. 17-20, 2019.
T. A. Fathima, V. Nedumpozhimana, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler, S. Dev.
Predicting solar irradiance in Singapore.
Proc. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Xiamen, China, Dec. 17-20, 2019.
S. Manandhar, S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, Y. S. Meng, S. Winkler.
A data-driven approach for accurate rainfall prediction.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 9323-9331, Nov. 2019.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Estimating solar irradiance using sky imagers.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 5417-5429, Oct. 2019.
J. Born, B. R. N. Ramachandran, S. A. Romero Pinto, R. Ratnam, S. Winkler.
Multimodal study of the effects of varying task load utilizing EEG, GSR and eye-tracking.
eprint biorXiv:10.1101/798496, Oct. 2019.
Y. Wu, Z. Zhao, S. Zhang, L. Yao, Y. Yang, T. Z. J. Fu, S. Winkler.
Interactive multi-camera soccer video analysis system.
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Nice, France, Oct. 21-25, 2019.
S. Dev, S. Manandhar, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Multi-label cloud segmentation using a deep network.
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS) and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, GA, July 7-12, 2019.
Additional resources: Code for the experiments discussed in the paper.
S. Manandhar, S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Predicting GPS-based PWV measurements using exponential smoothing.
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS) and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, GA, July 7-12, 2019.
Additional resources: Python code for the experiments discussed in the paper.
Y. Yazıcı, C.-S. Foo, S. Winkler, K.-H. Yap, G. Piliouras, V. Chandrasekhar.
The unusual effectiveness of averaging in GAN training.
Proc. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), New Orleans, LA, May 6-9, 2019.
Additional resources: Python code for the experiments discussed in the paper.
Y. Yazıcı, B. Lecouat, C.-S. Foo, S. Winkler, K.-H. Yap, G. Piliouras, V. Chandrasekhar.
Venn GAN: Discovering commonalities and particularities of multiple distributions.
eprint arXiv:1902.03444, Feb. 2019.

2018

S. Peng, L. Zhang, S. Winkler, M. Winslett.
Give me one portrait image, I will tell you your personality.
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 22-26, 2018.
V. Parekh, M. Bilalpur, S. Kumar, S. Winkler, C. V. Jawahar, R. Subramanian.
Investigating the generalizability of EEG-based cognitive load estimation across visualizations.
Proc. 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Boulder, CO, Oct. 16-20, 2018.
M. Bilalpur, R. Subramanian, M. Kankanhalli, S. Winkler.
EEG based evaluation of cognitive workload induced by psychoacoustic parameters for data sonification.
Proc. 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Boulder, CO, Oct. 16-20, 2018.
S. Manandhar, S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, Y. S. Meng, S. Winkler.
A data-driven approach to detecting precipitation from meteorological sensor data.
Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Valencia, Spain, July 22-27, 2018.
Additional resources: Matlab scripts and data discussed in the paper.
S. Dev, S. Manandhar, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler, Y. S. Meng.
Systematic study of weather variables for rainfall detection.
Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Valencia, Spain, July 22-27, 2018.
Additional resources: Matlab scripts and data discussed in the paper.
S. Peng, L. Zhang, Y. Ban, M. Fang, S. Winkler.
A deep network for arousal-valence emotion prediction with acoustic-visual cues.
One Minute Gradual (OMG) Emotion Behavior Challenge (1st/2nd place), eprint arXiv:1805.00638, May 2018.
Additional resources: Python code.
Y. Yazıcı, K.-H. Yap, S. Winkler.
Autoregressive generative adversarial networks.
Proc. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshops, Vancouver, Canada, April 30-May 3, 2018.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
High-dynamic-range imaging for cloud segmentation.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 2041-2049, April 2018.
Additional resources: Matlab scripts and SHWIMSEG dataset described in the paper.
R. Subramanian, J. Wache, M. K. Abadi, R. L. Vieriu, S. Winkler, N. Sebe.
ASCERTAIN: Emotion and personality recognition using commercial sensors.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (best paper award), vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 147-160, April 2018.
Additional resources: ASCERTAIN dataset used in the paper.
V. Vonikakis, R. Kouskouridas, A. Gasteratos.
On the evaluation of illumination compensation algorithms.
Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 77, no. 8, pp. 9211–9231, April 2018.

2017

A. H. Abdulnabi, S. Winkler, G. Wang.
Beyond forward shortcuts: Fully convolutional master-slave networks (MSNets) with backward skip connections for semantic segmentation.
eprint arXiv:1707.05537, July 2017.
V. Vonikakis, R. Subramanian, J. Arnfred, S. Winkler.
Probabilistic approach to people-centric photo selection and sequencing.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 2609-2624, Nov. 2017.
Additional resources: Matlab implementation of algorithms described in the paper.
S. Dev, S. Manandhar, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Study of clear sky models for Singapore.
Proc. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Singapore, Nov. 19-22, 2017.
J. T. Arnfred, V. D. Nguyen, S. Winkler.
BAFT: Binary Affine Feature Transform.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Beijing, China, Sept. 17-20, 2017.
Additional resources: C++ implementation of the algorithm described in the paper.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Nighttime sky/cloud image segmentation.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Beijing, China, Sept. 17-20, 2017.
Additional resources: Algorithm scripts and SWINSEG dataset described in the paper.
F. M. Savoy, S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Stereoscopic cloud base reconstruction using high-resolution whole sky imagers.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Beijing, China, Sept. 17-20, 2017.
Additional resources: Python implementation of the algorithm described in the paper.
A. H. Abdulnabi, B. Shuai, S. Winkler, G. Wang.
Episodic CAMN: Contextual attention-based memory networks with iterative feedback for scene labeling.
Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, HI, July 21-26, 2017.
S. Dev, S. Manandhar, F. Yuan, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Cloud radiative effect study using sky camera.
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS) and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 9-14, 2017.
S. Winkler, C. W. Chen, A. Raake, P. Schelkens, L. Skorin-Kapov.
Introduction to the Special Issue on Measuring Quality of Experience for Advanced Media Technologies and Services.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 11, no. 1, February 2017.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Rough set based color channel selection.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 52-56, January 2017.
Additional resources: Source code for rough sets and other experiments in this paper.
S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Color-based segmentation of sky/cloud images from ground-based cameras.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 231-242, January 2017.
Additional resources: SWIMSEG dataset used in the paper.

2016

B. R. N. Ramachandran, S. A. Romero Pinto, J. Born, S. Winkler, R. Ratnam.
Measuring neural, physiological and behavioral effects of frustration.
Proc. 16th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME), Singapore, Dec. 7-10, 2016.
S. Dev, S. Manandhar, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Detecting rainfall onset using sky images.
Proc. IEEE Region 10 International Conference (TENCON), Singapore, Nov. 22-25, 2016.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Short-term prediction of localized cloud motion using ground-based sky imagers.
Proc. IEEE Region 10 International Conference (TENCON), Singapore, Nov. 22-25, 2016.
Y. Zhu, R. Subramanian, T.-T. Ng, S. Winkler, R. Ratnam.
Comparison of human and machine performance for copy-move image forgery detection involving similar but genuine objects.
Proc. IEEE Region 10 International Conference (TENCON), Singapore, Nov. 22-25, 2016.
W. Wang, Y. Yan, L. Nie, L. Zhang, S. Winkler, N. Sebe.
Sparse code filtering for action pattern mining. (oral presentation)
Proc. 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Taipei, Nov. 20-24, 2016.
V. Vonikakis, Y. Yazıcı, V. D. Nguyen, S. Winkler.
Group happiness assessment using geometric features and dataset balancing.
Proc. 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (2nd place), Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 12-16, 2016.
Additional resources: Code and best-performing models described in the paper.
V. Vonikakis, R. Subramanian, S. Winkler.
Shaping datasets: Optimal data selection for specific target distributions across dimensions.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 25-28, 2016.
Additional resources: Source code of the algorithms described in the paper.
B. Wen, Y. Zhu, R. Subramanian, T.-T. Ng, X. Shen, S. Winkler.
COVERAGE - A novel database for copy-move forgery detection.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 25-28, 2016.
Additional resources: COVERAGE dataset used in the paper.
X. Alameda-Pineda, J. Staiano, S. Ramanathan, L. Batrinca, E. Ricci, B. Lepri, O. Lanz, N. Sebe.
SALSA: A novel dataset for multimodal group behavior analysis.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1707-1720, August 2016.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Estimation of solar irradiance using ground-based whole sky imagers.
Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, China, July 10-15, 2016.
F. M. Savoy, S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Geo-referencing and stereo calibration of ground-based whole sky imagers using the sun trajectory.
Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, China, July 10-15, 2016.
S. Dev, B. Wen, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Ground-based image analysis: A tutorial on machine-learning techniques and applications.
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, Special Issue on Advances in Machine Learning for Remote Sensing and Geosciences, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 79-93, June 2016.
Y. Yan, E. Ricci, R. Subramanian, G. Liu, O. Lanz, N. Sebe.
A multi-task learning framework for head pose estimation under target motion.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1070-1083, June 2016.
J. T. Arnfred, S. Winkler.
A general framework for image feature matching without geometric constraints.
Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 73, pp. 26-32, April 2016.
W. Wang, Y. Yan, S. Winkler, N. Sebe.
Category specific dictionary learning for attribute specific feature selection.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1465-1478, March 2016.
G. Liu, Y. Yan, R. Subramanian, J. Song, G. Liu, N. Sebe.
Active domain adaptation with noisy labels for multimedia analysis.
World Wide Web Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 199-215, March 2016.
V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler.
A center-surround framework for spatial image processing.
Proc. IS&T Human Vision & Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 14-18, 2016.
R. C. Streijl, S. Winkler, D. S. Hands.
Mean Opinion Score (MOS) revisited: Methods and applications, limitations and alternatives.
Multimedia Systems Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 213-227, Feb. 2016.
Y. Fang, W. Lin, S. Winkler.
Review of Existing Objective QoE Methodologies.
C. W. Chen, P. Chatzimisios, T. Dagiuklas, L. Atzori (eds.), Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE): Current Status and Future Requirements, ch. 3, Wiley, Jan. 2016.

2015

E. Ricci, J. Varadarajan, R. Subramanian, S. Rota-Bulo, N. Ahuja, O. Lanz.
Uncovering interactions and interactors: Joint estimation of head, body orientation and F-formations from surveillance videos. (oral presentation)
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Santiago, Chile, Dec. 13-16, 2015.
H.-W. Ng, V. D. Nguyen, V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler.
Deep learning for emotion recognition on small datasets using transfer learning.
Proc. 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (3rd place), Seattle, WA, Nov. 9-13, 2015.
Additional resources: Code and best-performing models described in the paper.
J. Wache, R. Subramanian, M. K. Abadi, R.-L. Vieriu, N. Sebe, S. Winkler.
Implicit user-centric personality recognition based on physiological responses to emotional videos.
Proc. 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Seattle, WA, Nov. 9-13, 2015.
Y. Yan, E. Ricci, G. Liu, N. Sebe.
Egocentric daily activity recognition via multi-task clustering.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 2984-2995, Oct. 2015.
R. Subramanian, J. Varadarajan, E. Ricci, O. Lanz, S. Winkler.
Jointly estimating interactions and head, body pose of interactors from distant social scenes.
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Brisbane, Australia, Oct. 26-30, 2015.
X. Alameda-Pineda, Y. Yan, E. Ricci, O. Lanz, N. Sebe.
Analyzing free-standing conversational groups: A multimodal approach. (best paper award)
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Brisbane, Australia, Oct. 26-30, 2015.
A. Sartori, D. Culibrk, Y. Yan, N. Sebe.
Who's afraid of Itten: Using the art theory of color combination to analyze emotions in abstract paintings.
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Brisbane, Australia, Oct. 26-30, 2015.
J. T. Arnfred, S. Winkler.
Fast-Match: Fast and robust feature matching on large images.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Québec City, Canada, Sept. 27-30, 2015.
S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Multi-level semantic labeling of sky/cloud images.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Québec City, Canada, Sept. 27-30, 2015.
S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Categorization of cloud image patches using an improved texton-based approach.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Québec City, Canada, Sept. 27-30, 2015.
Additional resources: SWIMCAT dataset used in the paper.
Anoop K. R., R. Subramanian, V. Vonikakis, K. R. Ramakrishnan, S. Winkler.
On the utility of canonical correlation analysis for domain adaptation in multi-view headpose estimation.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Québec City, Canada, Sept. 27-30, 2015.
D. Xu, E. Ricci, Y. Yan, J. Song, N. Sebe.
Learning deep representations of appearance and motion for anomalous event detection.
Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Swansea, UK, Sept. 7-10, 2015.
M. K. Abadi, R. Subramanian, S. M. Kia, P. Avesani, I. Patras, N. Sebe.
DECAF: MEG-based multimodal database for decoding affective physiological responses.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 209-222, July 2015.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Design of low-cost, compact and weather-proof whole sky imagers for high-dynamic-range captures.
Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Milan, Italy, July 26-31, 2015.
F. M. Savoy, J. C. Lemaitre, S. Dev, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
Cloud base height estimation using high-resolution whole sky imagers.
Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Milan, Italy, July 26-31, 2015.
A. Sartori, Y. Yan, G. Özbal, A. A. A. Salah, A. A. Salah, N. Sebe.
Looking at Mondrian’s victory Boogie-Woogie: What do I feel?
Proc. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015.
G. Liu, Y. Yan, E. Ricci, Y. Yang, Y. Han, S. Winkler, N. Sebe.
Inferring painting style with multi-task dictionary learning.
Proc. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015.
S. O. Gilani, R. Subramanian, Y. Yan, D. Melcher, N. Sebe, S. Winkler.
PET: An eye-tracking dataset for animal-centric PASCAL object classes. (oral presentation, top 15%)
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Torino, Italy, June 29-July 3, 2015.
Additional resources: PET dataset used in the paper.
T. Ma, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler, M. Ma.
QoS provisioning by power control for video communication via satellite links.
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 259–275, May/June 2015.

2014

Y. Yan, E. Ricci, R. Subramanian, G. Liu, N. Sebe.
Multi-task linear discriminant analysis for view invariant action recognition.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 5599-5611, December 2014.
V. Vonikakis, R. Subramanian, J. Arnfred, S. Winkler.
Modeling image appeal based on crowd preferences for automated person-centric collage creation.
Proc. International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Orlando, FL, Nov. 7, 2014.
M. K. Abadi, A. Abad, R. Subramanian, N. Rostamzadeh, E. Ricci, J. Varadarajan, N. Sebe.
A multi-task learning framework for time-continuous emotion estimation from crowd annotations.
Proc. International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Orlando, FL, Nov. 7, 2014.
H.-W. Ng, S. Winkler.
A data-driven approach to cleaning large face datasets.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, France, Oct. 27-30, 2014.
Additional resources: FaceScrub dataset described in the paper.
S. Dev, S. Winkler, Y. H. Lee.
Systematic study of color spaces and components for the segmentation of sky/cloud images.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, France, Oct. 27-30, 2014.
Additional resources: Matlab code used in the paper.
S. Winkler.
Does inter-subject variability depend on test material?
Proc. 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Singapore, Sept. 18-20, 2014.
Y. Yan, R. Subramanian, E. Ricci, O. Lanz, N. Sebe.
Evaluating multi-task learning for multi-view head-pose classification in interactive environments.
Proc. 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Stockholm, August 24-28, 2014.
Y. Yan, E. Ricci, G. Liu, R. Subramanian, N. Sebe.
Clustered multi-task linear discriminant analysis for view invariant color-depth action recognition. (best student paper)
Proc. 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Stockholm, August 24-28, 2014.
A. K. Rajagopal, R. Subramanian, E. Ricci, R. L. Vieriu, O. Lanz, K. Ramakrishnan, N. Sebe.
Exploring transfer learning approaches for head pose classification from multi-view surveillance images.
International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 109, no. 1-2, pp. 146-167, August 2014.
S. Dev, F. M. Savoy, Y. H. Lee, S. Winkler.
WAHRSIS: A low-cost, high-resolution whole sky imager with near-infrared capabilities.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing, vol. 9071, Baltimore, MD, May 5-9, 2014.
X. Meng, S. Zhao, Y. Huang, Z. Zhang, J. Eagan, R. Subramanian.
WADE: Simplified GUI add-on development for third-party software.
Proc. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, Apr. 26-May 1, 2014.
R. Subramanian, D. Shankar, N. Sebe, D. Melcher.
Emotion modulates eye movement patterns and subsequent memory for the gist and details of movie scenes.
Journal of Vision, vol. 14, no. 3, article 31, March 2014.
F. M. Savoy, V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler, S. Süsstrunk.
Recovering badly exposed objects from digital photos using internet images.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Digital Photography, vol. 9023, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
S. Winkler.
Efficient measurement of stereoscopic 3D video content issues.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Image Quality and System Performance, vol. 9016, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
A. Lindner, S. Winkler.
What impacts skin color in digital photos?
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Color Imaging, vol. 9015, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
S. Winkler, F. M. Savoy, R. Subramanian.
X-Eye: A reference format for eye tracking data to facilitate analyses across databases.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Human Vision & Electronic Imaging, vol. 9014, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
Additional resources: Software tools for dataset conversion.
V. Vonikakis, A. Jinda-apiraksa, S. Winkler.
PhotoCluster: A multi-clustering technique for near-duplicate detection in personal photo collections.
Proc. 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Lisbon, Portugal, Jan. 5-8, 2014.

2013

R. Subramanian, Y. Yan, J. Staiano, O. Lanz, N. Sebe.
On the relationship between head pose, social attention and personality prediction in unstructured and dynamic group interactions.
Proc. 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Sydney, Australia, Dec. 9-13, 2013.
A. Khromenkov, B. Ni, S. Winkler.
Salus: A system for tele-rehabilitation using Kinect.
Proc. IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference, Singapore, Dec. 2-3, 2013.
Y. Yan, E. Ricci, R. Subramanian, O. Lanz, N. Sebe.
No matter where you are: Flexible graph-guided multi-task learning for multi-view head pose classification under target motion.
Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Australia, Dec. 1-8, 2013.
S. Winkler, D. Min.
Stereo/multiview picture quality: Overview and recent advances.
Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 1358-1373, Nov. 2013.
J. T. Arnfred, S. Winkler, S. Süsstrunk.
Mirror Match: Reliable feature point matching without geometric constraints.
Proc. 2nd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR), Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 5-8, 2013.
Additional resources: Murals dataset used in the paper.
J. McCann, V. Vonikakis, C. Bonanomi, A. Rizzi.
Chromaticity limits in color constancy calculations.
Proc. 21st IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (CIC), Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 4-8, 2013.
P. Ratsamee, Y. Mae, A. Jinda-apiraksa, J. Machajdik, K. Ohara, M. Kojima, R. Sablatnig, T. Arai.
Lifelogging keyframe selection using image quality measurements and physiological excitement features.
Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 3-8, 2013.
V. Vonikakis, R. Kouskouridas, A. Gasteratos.
A comparison framework for the evaluation of illumination compensation algorithms.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), Beijing, China, Oct. 22-23, 2013.
V. Vonikakis, R. Subramanian, S. Winkler.
How do users make a people-centric slideshow?
Proc. 2nd International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 22, 2013.
H. W. Ng and T. N. T. Nguyen.
The 9th Annual MLSP Competition: Second place. (2nd place)
Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Southampton, UK, Sept. 22-25, 2013.
F. Briggs et al.
The 9th Annual MLSP Competition: New methods for acoustic classification of multiple simultaneous bird species in a noisy environment.
Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), Southampton, UK, Sept. 22-25, 2013.
S. O. Gilani, R. Subramanian, H. Hua, S. Winkler, S.-C. Yen.
Impact of image appeal on visual attention during photo triaging.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 15-18, 2013.
M. K. Abadi, S. M. Kia, R. Subramanian, P. Avesani, N. Sebe.
User-centric affective video tagging from MEG and peripheral physiological responses.
Proc. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 2-5, 2013.
A. Jinda-Apiraksa, V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler.
California-ND: An annotated dataset for near-duplicate detection in personal photo collections. (download dataset)
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Klagenfurt, Austria, July 3-5, 2013.
Additional resources: California-ND dataset used in the paper.
H. Yu, S. Winkler.
Image complexity and spatial information.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Klagenfurt, Austria, July 3-5, 2013.
S. Winkler, R. Subramanian.
Overview of eye tracking datasets.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Klagenfurt, Austria, July 3-5, 2013.
V. Vonikakis, D. Chrysostomou, R. Kouskouridas, A. Gasteratos.
A biologically inspired scale-space for illumination invariant feature detection.
Measurement Science and Technology, Special Issue on Imaging Systems and Techniques, vol. 24, no. 7, July 2013.
A. Jinda-Apiraksa, J. Machajdik, R. Sablatnig.
A keyframe selection of lifelog image sequences.
Proc. 13th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), May 20-23, Kyoto, Japan.
M. K. Abadi, M. Kiki, R. Subramanian, P. Avesani, N. Sebe.
Decoding affect in videos employing the MEG brain signal.
Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space (EmoSpace), in conjunction with IEEE Face and Gesture Conference, Shanghai, China, April 22-26, 2013.
S. Winkler.
Assessing the quality of user-generated content.
ZTE Communications, Special Issue on QoE Modeling and Applications for Multimedia Systems, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 37-40, Mar. 2013.

2012

V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler.
Emotion-based sequence of family photos. (2nd prize)
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, HP Challenge: Understanding the Emotional Impact of Images and Videos, Nara, Japan, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2012.
V. Vonikakis, S. Winkler.
System for creating slideshows based on people and their emotions. (demo)
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Nara, Japan, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2012.
S. Winkler.
Analysis of public image and video databases for quality assessment.
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on New Subjective and Objective Methodologies for Audio and Visual Signal Processing, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 616-625, Oct. 2012.
S. Winkler.
Characteristics of Human Vision.
R. Lukac (ed.), Perceptual Digital Imaging: Methods and Applications, chap. 1, CRC Press, Oct. 2012.
S. J. Kim, H. Ng, S. Winkler, P. Song, C.-W. Fu.
Brush-and-Drag: A multi-touch interface for photo triaging. (full paper & demo)
Proc. ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI), San Francisco, Sept. 21-24, 2012.
B. Ni, Y. Pei, S. Winkler, P. Moulin.
Kinect for rehabilitation.
Proc. 6th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe), Singapore, July 24-26, 2012.
J. McCann, V. Vonikakis.
Accurate information vs. looks good: Scientific vs. preferred rendering.
Proc. 6th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision (CGIV), Amsterdam, May 6-9, 2012.

2011

S. Winkler, D. Min.
Stereoscopic image quality compendium.
Proc. 8th International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, Dec. 2011.
H. Lin, S. J. Kim, S. Süsstrunk, M. S. Brown.
Revisiting radiometric calibration for color computer vision.
Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Nov. 2011.
F. Porikli, A. Bovik, C. Plack, G. AlRegib, J. Farrell, P. Le Callet, Q. Huynh-Thu, S. Möller, S. Winkler.
Multimedia quality assessment.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 28, no. 6, Nov. 2011.
S. Winkler.
Image quality in the era of personal and social media.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA), Kyoto, Oct. 2011.