Saeid Safavi

Analysing and understanding child behaviour is a topic of great scientific interest across a wide range of disciplines, including social sciences and artificial intelligence (AI). Knowledge in these diverse fields is not yet integrated to its full potential. The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers from these fields together. The first three workshops had a significant impact. In this workshop, we discussed topics such as the use of AI techniques to better examine and model interactions and children’s emotional development, analyzing head movement patterns with respect to child age. The 2023 edition of the workshop is a successful new step towards the objective of bridging social sciences and AI, attracting contributions from various academic fields on child behaviour analysis. We see that atypical child development holds an important space in child behaviour research. While in visual domain, gaze and joint attention are popularly studied; speech and physiological signals of atypically developing children are shown to provide valuable cues motivating future work. This document summarizes the WoCBU’23 workshop, including the review process, keynote talks and the accepted papers.

Child behaviour is a topic of great scientific interest across a wide range of disciplines, including social sciences and artificial intelligence (AI). Knowledge in these different fields is not yet integrated to its full potential. The aim of this workshop was to bring researchers from these fields together. The first two workshops had a significant impact. In this workshop, we discussed topics such as the use of AI techniques to better examine and model interactions and children’s emotional development, analyzing head movement patterns with respect to child age. This workshop was a successful new step towards the objective of bridging social sciences and AI, attracting contributions from various academic fields on child behaviour analysis. This document summarizes the accepted papers.

The primary focus of autonomous driving research is to improve driving accuracy and reliability. While great progress has been made, state-of-the-art algorithms still fail at times and some of these failures are due to the faults in sensors. Such failures may have fatal consequences. It therefore is important that automated cars foresee problems ahead as early as possible. By using real-world data and artificial injection of different types of sensor faults to the healthy signals, data models can be trained using machine learning techniques. This paper proposes a novel fault detection, isolation, identification and prediction (based on detection) architecture for multi-fault in multi-sensor systems, such as autonomous vehicles.Our detection, identification and isolation platform uses two distinct and efficient deep neural network architectures and obtained very impressive performance. Utilizing the sensor fault detection system’s output, we then introduce our health index measure and use it to train the health index forecasting network.

Credit risk is the possibility of a loss resulting from a borrower’s failure to repay a loan or meet contractual obligations. With the growing number of customers and expansion of businesses, it’s not possible or at least feasible for banks to assess each customer individually in order to minimize this risk. Machine learning can leverage available user data to model a behavior and automatically estimate a credit score for each customer. In this research, we propose a novel approach based on state machines to model this problem into a classical supervised machine learning task. The proposed state machine is used to convert historical user data to a credit score which generates a data-set for training supervised models. We have explored several classification models in our experiments and illustrated the effectiveness of our modeling approach.

In this paper, we propose a methodology for the fusion of different modes of speaker verification (SV) operation (fixed-passphrase, text-dependent and text-independent mode), using regression fusion models. The experimental results with and without spoofing attack conditions and using different single mode speaker verification engines, GMM-UBM, HMM-UBM and i-vector, indicated improvement in all the experiments. The 6.75 % in terms of EER is achieved as the best speaker verification performance, when using fusion of scores from three modes of operation of HMM-UBM based speaker verification systems. Relative improvement of 22.32 % achieved compare to the best performing single mode engine.