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most citedPersonalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

278 citations · 899 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

Mixed Effects Random Forests for Personalised Predictions of Clinical Depression Severity

Robert A. Lewis, Asma Ghandeharioun, Szymon Fedor +3

This work demonstrates how mixed effects random forests enable accurate predictions of depression severity using multimodal physiological and digital activity data collected from a…

cs.CV2021

Predicting Driver Self-Reported Stress by Analyzing the Road Scene

Cristina Bustos, Neska Elhaouij, Albert Sole-Ribalta +3

Several studies have shown the relevance of biosignals in driver stress recognition. In this work, we examine something important that has been less frequently explored: We develop…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanations via Concept Traversals

Asma Ghandeharioun, Been Kim, Chun-Liang Li +3

Explaining deep learning model inferences is a promising venue for scientific understanding, improving safety, uncovering hidden biases, evaluating fairness, and beyond, as argued…

cs.CV2021★ 244 cited

Deepfake Detection by Human Crowds, Machines, and Machine-informed Crowds

Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Chaz Firestone +1

The recent emergence of machine-manipulated media raises an important societal question: how can we know if a video that we watch is real or fake? In two online studies with 15,016…

cs.LG2021★ 18 cited

Personalized Federated Deep Learning for Pain Estimation From Face Images

Ognjen Rudovic, Nicolas Tobis, Sebastian Kaltwang +4

Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing the users' data in one computer or a shared database, which raises data privacy and confidentiality concerns. Therefore, l…

cs.LG2020

openXDATA: A Tool for Multi-Target Data Generation and Missing Label Completion

Felix Weninger, Yue Zhang, Rosalind W. Picard

A common problem in machine learning is to deal with datasets with disjoint label spaces and missing labels. In this work, we introduce the openXDATA tool that completes the missin…

cs.LG2019

Characterizing Sources of Uncertainty to Proxy Calibration and Disambiguate Annotator and Data Bias

Asma Ghandeharioun, Brian Eoff, Brendan Jou +1

Supporting model interpretability for complex phenomena where annotators can legitimately disagree, such as emotion recognition, is a challenging machine learning task. In this wor…

cs.LG2019

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Open-Domain Dialog

Abdelrhman Saleh, Natasha Jaques, Asma Ghandeharioun +2

Open-domain dialog generation is a challenging problem; maximum likelihood training can lead to repetitive outputs, models have difficulty tracking long-term conversational goals,…

eess.IV2019

Pain Detection with fNIRS-Measured Brain Signals: A Personalized Machine Learning Approach Using the Wavelet Transform and Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling with Dirichlet Process Priors

Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Ke Peng, Arielle Lee +2

Currently self-report pain ratings are the gold standard in clinical pain assessment. However, the development of objective automatic measures of pain could substantially aid pain…

cs.HC2019

Engineering Music to Slow Breathing and Invite Relaxed Physiology

Grace Leslie, Asma Ghandeharioun, Diane Y. Zhou +1

We engineered an interactive music system that influences a user's breathing rate to induce a relaxation response. This system generates ambient music containing periodic shifts in…

cs.LG2019

Detection of Real-world Driving-induced Affective State Using Physiological Signals and Multi-view Multi-task Machine Learning

Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Neska El-Haouij, Rosalind Picard

Affective states have a critical role in driving performance and safety. They can degrade driver situation awareness and negatively impact cognitive processes, severely diminishing…

cs.LG2019★ 134 cited

Way Off-Policy Batch Deep Reinforcement Learning of Implicit Human Preferences in Dialog

Natasha Jaques, Asma Ghandeharioun, Judy Hanwen Shen +5

Most deep reinforcement learning (RL) systems are not able to learn effectively from off-policy data, especially if they cannot explore online in the environment. These are critica…

cs.HC2019

Tweet Moodifier: Towards giving emotional awareness to Twitter users

Belen Saldias, Rosalind W. Picard

Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have focused mainly on finding evidence of affect contagion in homoph…

cs.LG2019

Multi-modal Active Learning From Human Data: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Ognjen Rudovic, Meiru Zhang, Bjorn Schuller +1

Human behavior expression and experience are inherently multi-modal, and characterized by vast individual and contextual heterogeneity. To achieve meaningful human-computer and hum…

cs.CL2019★ 76 cited

Approximating Interactive Human Evaluation with Self-Play for Open-Domain Dialog Systems

Asma Ghandeharioun, Judy Hanwen Shen, Natasha Jaques +4

Building an open-domain conversational agent is a challenging problem. Current evaluation methods, mostly post-hoc judgments of static conversation, do not capture conversation qua…

cs.LG2019

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Critical Care Pain Management with Morphine using Dueling Double-Deep Q Networks

Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Patrick Eschenfeldt, Sassan Ostvar +3

Opioids are the preferred medications for the treatment of pain in the intensive care unit. While undertreatment leads to unrelieved pain and poor clinical outcomes, excessive use…

cs.LG2019★ 7 cited

Meta-Weighted Gaussian Process Experts for Personalized Forecasting of AD Cognitive Changes

Ognjen Rudovic, Yuria Utsumi, Ricardo Guerrero +3

We introduce a novel personalized Gaussian Process Experts (pGPE) model for predicting per-subject ADAS-Cog13 cognitive scores -- a significant predictor of Alzheimer's Disease (AD…

cs.LG2018★ 1 cited

Multi-task multiple kernel machines for personalized pain recognition from functional near-infrared spectroscopy brain signals

Daniel Lopez-Martinez, Ke Peng, Sarah C. Steele +3

Currently there is no validated objective measure of pain. Recent neuroimaging studies have explored the feasibility of using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measu…

cs.CV2018★ 16 cited

Estimating Carotid Pulse and Breathing Rate from Near-infrared Video of the Neck

Weixuan Chen, Javier Hernandez, Rosalind W. Picard

Objective: Non-contact physiological measurement is a growing research area that allows capturing vital signs such as heart rate (HR) and breathing rate (BR) comfortably and unobtr…

cs.LG2018

Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)

Yuria Utsumi, Ognjen Rudovic, Kelly Peterson +2

In this paper, we introduce the use of a personalized Gaussian Process model (pGP) to predict per-patient changes in ADAS-Cog13 -- a significant predictor of Alzheimer's Disease (A…

cs.LG2018★ 9 cited

Learning via social awareness: Improving a deep generative sketching model with facial feedback

Natasha Jaques, Jennifer McCleary, Jesse Engel +4

In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic motivators in the absence of external rewards.…

cs.RO2018★ 278 cited

Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Ognjen Rudovic, Jaeryoung Lee, Miles Dai +2

Robots have great potential to facilitate future therapies for children on the autism spectrum. However, existing robots lack the ability to automatically perceive and respond to h…

cs.HC2018★ 14 cited

A Trip to the Moon: Personalized Animated Movies for Self-reflection

Fengjiao Peng, Veronica LaBelle, Emily Yue +1

Self-tracking physiological and psychological data poses the challenge of presentation and interpretation. Insightful narratives for self-tracking data can motivate the user toward…

cs.LG2017★ 14 cited

Personalized Gaussian Processes for Future Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease Progression

Kelly Peterson, Ognjen Rudovic, Ricardo Guerrero +1

In this paper, we introduce the use of a personalized Gaussian Process model (pGP) to predict the key metrics of Alzheimer's Disease progression (MMSE, ADAS-Cog13, CDRSB and CS) ba…