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Understanding and Enhancing Digital Wellbeing Dimensions: Empirical Studies on Smartphone Usage Patterns and Recommendations of Micro-Informative Content

Digital technology has become an integral part of our lives, offering various benefits from communication and entertainment to education and productivity. However, its pervasive use has also raised concerns about its potential negative impact on users' wel ...

EPFL2024

Content Moderation in Online Platforms

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

A critical role of online platforms like Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, Doordash, and Tinder is to moderate content. Interventions like banning users or deleting comments are carried out thousands of times daily and can potentially improve our onlin ...

EPFL2024

Neural Basis of Internal Attention in Adults with Pure and Comorbid ADHD

Halima Rafi, Farnaz Delavari

Objective: To examine whether putatively atypical neuronal activity during internal attention in ADHD yields insights into processes underlying emotion dysregulation. Methods: We used a word processing paradigm to assess neural activations in adults with A ...

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A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students

Touradj Ebrahimi, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Nihat Kotluk

Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...

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Referencing in YouTube Knowledge Communication Videos

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Haeeun Kim

In recent years, there has been widespread concern about misinformation and hateful content on social media that are damaging societies. Being one of the most influential social media that practically serves as a newsearch engine, YouTube has accepted crit ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

How to Boost Face Recognition with StyleGAN?

Nikita Durasov

State-of-the-art face recognition systems require vast amounts of labeled training data. Given the priority of privacy in face recognition applications, the data is limited to celebrity web crawls, which have issues such as limited numbers of identities. O ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

From scattered sources to comprehensive technology landscape : A recommendation-based retrieval approach

Karl Aberer, Chi Thang Duong

Mapping the technology landscape is crucial for market actors to take informed investment decisions. However, given the large amount of data on the Web and its subsequent information overload, manually retrieving information is a seemingly ineffective and ...

ELSEVIER2023

Towards Empathetic Open-Domain Chatbots

Yubo Xie

The research community of dialog generation has been interested in incorporating emotional information into the design of open-domain dialog systems ever since neural networks (sequence-to-sequence models in particular) were adopted for modeling dialogs. T ...

EPFL2022

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Jérémie Rappaz

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

Cultural Adaptation, Validation, and Psychometric Description of the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) in the Spanish Population

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Research in psychology and social neuroscience distinguishes between dispositional and situational empathy for the cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. Yet, the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) is one of the few brief tests focusing on situational affec ...

HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP2022

A Stepwise Domain Adaptive Segmentation Network With Covariate Shift Alleviation for Remote Sensing Imagery

Yunpeng Li, Yinlin Hu, Rui Song, Jingyu Li

Semantic segmentation for remote sensing images (RSI) is critical for the Earth monitoring system. However, the covariate shift between RSI datasets under different capture conditions cannot be alleviated by directly using the unsupervised domain adaptatio ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Dynamic functional brain networks underlying the temporal inertia of negative emotions

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thomas William Arthur Bolton, Gwladys Rey, Julian Gaviria

Affective inertia represents the lasting impact of transient emotions at one time point on affective state at a subsequent time point. Here we describe the neural underpinnings of inertia following negative emotions elicited by sad events in movies. Using ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2021

Cyber-Physical LPG Debutanizer Distillation Columns: Machine-Learning-Based Soft Sensors for Product Quality Monitoring

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Refineries execute a series of interlinked processes, where the product of one unit serves as the input to another process. Potential failures within these processes affect the quality of the end products, operational efficiency, and revenue of the entire ...

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Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Robert West, Ahmad Abu-Akel, Andreas Oliver Spitz

Motivated by the goal of designing interventions for softening polarized opinions on the Web, and building on results from psychology, we hypothesized that people would be moved more easily towards opposing opinions when the latter were voiced by a celebri ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Multimodal person recognition in audio-visual streams

Do Hoang Nam Le

Multimedia databases are growing rapidly in size in the digital age. To increase the value of these data and to enhance the user experience, there is a need to make these videos searchable through automatic indexing. Because people appearing and talking in ...

EPFL2019

G2-VER: Geometry Guided Model Ensemble for Video-based Facial Expression Recognition

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Saleh Baghersalimi, Tanguy Albrici, Guillaume Marc Georges Vray, Hazim Kemal Ekenel

This paper addresses the problem of automatic facial expression recognition in videos, where the goal is to predict discrete emotion labels best describing the emotions expressed in short video clips. Building on a pre-trained convolutional neural network ...

IEEE2019

Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification ofWeb Downloads for the Masses

Mauro Cherubini, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Igor Bilogrevic, Bertil Chapuis, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Alexandre Meylan

Internet users can download software for their computers from app stores (e.g., Mac App Store and Windows Store) or from other sources, such as the developers' websites. Most Internet users in the US rely on the latter, according to our representative stud ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

The City of Extended Emotions

Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

Cities are much more than just the background of our lives, or complex artefacts. They are the social field and the content over which we quarrel; the reason and the tool by which we co-operate. Cities are shaped in the form of our passions. Those passions ...

EPFL2017

Context-Dependent Privacy-Aware Photo Sharing based on Machine Learning

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, Joël Régis Theytaz

Photo privacy has raised a growing concern with the advancements of image analytics, face recognition, and deep learning techniques widely applied on social media. If properly deployed, these powerful techniques can in turn assist people in enhancing their ...

2017

AniSAM & AniAvatar – Animated Visualizations of Affective States

Andreas Sonderegger

Tools that provide visual feedback about emotions to the user in the form of an avatar or an emoticon have become increasingly important. While a great deal of effort has already been put into the reliable and accurate automatic detection of emotions, only ...

ACM2016