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Cigdem Beyan

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona

cigdem.beyan[at]univr[dot]it

Cigdem Beyan holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona, Italy. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, social signal processing, affective computing, and human/animal behaviour analysis. Cigdem has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles and she regularly publishes in top-tier journals and conferences in computer vision, multimedia and social/affective computing. She is a reviewer of several multimedia, affective computing, computer vision and machine learning journals (e.g., IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. Multimedia; IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, Pattern Recognition), and IEEE/ACM/IAPR/BMVA conferences (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICML, WACV, ACM MM, BMVC, ACM ICMI, ICLR). She is a member of IEEE, ACM and ELLIS. Additionally, she has been actively involved in organizing conferences in the fields of Computer Vision, Social Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Biometrics. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education since 2014.

News

Super happy to announce that I joined the University of Verona , Department of Computer Science as an Associate Professor.
Happy to be a Senior Committee Member at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2024)!
Delighted to be a Senior Committee Member at the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024)!
Exciting news! I am serving as a Doctoral Consortium Co-chair at the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)!
Thrilled to serve as an Area Chair at the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)!
Delighted to be appointed as an Area Chair at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2024)!
I am serving as a Social Media Co-chair at the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2024)!
Paper Co-Located Human-Human Interaction Analysis using Nonverbal Cues: A Survey is accepted at ACM Computing Surveys!
I am serving as an Associate Editor at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)!
From September 2023, I am with the Department of Management, Information, and Production Engineering (DIGIP) at the University of Bergamo as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor.
I am serving as a Proceedings Co-chair at the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2024!
I am serving as a Publicity Co-chair at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO 2024)!
Paper accepted at WACV 2024! The paper entitled ‘Leveraging Next-Active Objects for Context-Aware Anticipation in Egocentric Videos’ has been accepted at WACV 2024. Congrats to Sanket Kumar Thakur.
Paper Unleashing the Transferability Power of Unsupervised Pre-Training for Emotion Recognition in Masked and Unmasked Facial Images is accepted at IEEE Access!
Paper SKELTER: Unsupervised Skeleton Action Denoising and Recognition using Transformers is accepted at Frontiers in Computer Science! Congrats to Giancarlo Paoletti.
Paper accepted at ICCV 2023! The paper entitled ‘Object-aware Gaze Target Detection’ has been accepted at ICCV 2023. Congrats to Francesco Tonini and Nicola Dall'Asen.
Paper accepted at ICIAP 2023! The paper entitled ‘Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection with Diffusion Models Conditioned on Compact Motion Representations’ has been accepted at ICIAP 2023 as ORAL presentation. Congrats to Anil Osman Tur and Nicola Dall'Asen.
Paper accepted at ICIP 2023! The paper entitled ‘Exploring Diffusion Models for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection’ has been accepted at ICIP 2023 as ORAL presentation. Congrats to Anil Osman Tur and Nicola Dall'Asen.
Paper accepted at ICIP 2023! The paper entitled ‘Enhancing Next Active Object-based Egocentric Action Anticipation with Guided Attention’ has been accepted at ICIP 2023. Congrats to Sanket Kumar Thakur.
We are the 1st place winner of the 2023 Ego4D Challenge in the Forecasting: Short-term hand object prediction track in CVPR 2023. The paper summarizing our methodology can be found in HERE. Congrats to Sanket Kumar Thakur.
I am serving as the Demo and Exhibition Chair at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (IEEE FG) !
I am serving as an Area Chair at the 34th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) !
We are organizing a Special Issue called Social and Cognitive Interactions in the Open World at International Journal of Social Robotics! Check out the CALL for more information.
A new version (aka simplified) of the website is now ON!

Teaching

Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence LM in Computer Engineering for Robotics and Smart Industry @UNIVR - Spring 2024
INFORMATICA (CDL 23) LT Ingegneria Meccanica @UNIBG - Fall 2023
Introduction to Machine learning LM Data Science @UNITN - Spring 2023
Introduction to Machine learning LM Data Science @UNITN - Spring 2022
Multimodal Machine learning PhD Course @UNITN - Spring 2022
Human Behavior Analysis with a Social Signal Processing Perspective Short Course for PhD and early career researchers @AIDA - Spring 2022

Selected Publications (From 2023)

Please refer to my google scholar profile for more information.

Leveraging Next-Active Objects for Context-Aware Anticipation in Egocentric Videos, 2024, WACV

Thakur, S. , Beyan, C. , Morerio, P. , Murino, V. , and Del Bue, A.

Object-aware Gaze Target Detection, 2023, ICCV

Tonini, F. , Dall'Asen, N. , Beyan, C. , and Ricci, E.

Exploring Diffusion Models for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection, 2023, ICIP

Tur, O. A.,,Dall'Asen, N.,Beyan, C. and Ricci, E.

Enhancing Next Active Object-based Egocentric Action Anticipation with Guided Attention, 2023, ICIP

Thakur, S.,Beyan, C.,Morerio, P.,Murino, V., and Del Bue, A.