Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Xavier Alameda-Pineda is a Research Scientist (Chargé de Recherche) and the leader of the RobotLearn Team at Inria at Université Grenoble Alpes. He obtained the M.Sc. (equivalent) in Mathematics in 2008, in Telecommunications in 2009 from BarcelonaTech and in Computer Science in 2010 from Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA). He the worked towards his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and obtained it 2013, from UGA. After a two-year post-doc period at the Multimodal Human Understanding Group, at University of Trento, he was appointed with his current position. Xavier is an active member of SIGMM, a senior member of IEEE and a member of ELLIS. He is the Coordinator of the H2020 Project SPRING: Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare and is co-leading the “Audio-visual machine perception and interaction for companion robots” chair of the Multidisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Xavier’s research interests are in combining machine learning, computer vision and audio processing for scene and behavior analysis and human-robot interaction.

Xavier Alameda-Pineda was nominated as the recipient of the SIGMM Rising Star Award of 2018 for his contributions to multimodal social behavior understanding. In the past, he was involved in scientific studies awarded in different top-level venues:

  • IEEE TMM 2022 Associate Editor Award.
  • ACM-TOMM (Nicolas D. Georganas) 2020 Best Paper Award.
  • Novel Technology Paper Award Finalist for Tracking a Varying Number of People with a Visually-Controlled Robotic Head, with Yutong Ban, Fabien Badeig, Silèye Ba and Radu Horaud, at IEEE/RAS IROS 2017.
  • Best scientific paper award for Multi-Paced Dictionary Learning for Cross-Domain Retrieval and Recognition, with Dan Xu, Jingkuan Song, Elisa Ricci and Nicu Sebe, at IAPR ICPR 2016.
  • Best paper award for Analysing Free-standing Conversational Groups: A Multimodal Approach, with Yan Yan, Oswald Lanz, Elisa Ricci and Nicu Sebe, at ACM MM 2015
  • Best student paper award for A Variational EM Algorithm for the Separation of Moving Sound Sources, with Dionyssos Kounades-Bastian, at IEEE WASPAA 2015.
  • Outstanding paper award for Finding Audio-visual Events in Informal Social Gatherings, with Vasil Khalidov, Florence Forbes and Radu Horaud, at IEEE/ACM ICMI 2011.

Please visit Xavier’s GoogleScholar profile for a complete list of publications.

Web page: http://xavirema.eu
E-mail: xavier.alameda-pineda@inria.fr
Phone: +33 (0)4 76 61 52 08

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