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Department of Computer Science and Technology

  • Affiliated Researcher
  • Lecturer, University of Leicester

I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Leicester. I am also an affiliated/visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. I was a Research Associate worked with Prof. Hatice Gunes from 09/2020 at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, I obtained my PhD degree at the University of Nottingham, funded by Horizon CDT, under Prof Michel Valstar and Prof Alan Johnston's supervision.

Research

Siyang's research interests include:

Affective Computing (Automatic mental health and personality analysis, Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation)

Human-computer Interaction

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

Graph Representation Learning

 

Recent publications:

[1] Song, Siyang, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Germán Barquero, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Michel Valstar et al. "REACT2023: The First Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge." In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 9620-9624. 2023.

[2] Song, Siyang, Zilong Shao, Shashank Jaiswal, Linlin Shen, Michel Valstar, and Hatice Gunes. "Learning Person-specific Cognition from Facial Reactions for Automatic Personality Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2022).

[3] Luo, Cheng*, Siyang Song*, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, and Hatice Gunes. "Learning multi-dimensional edge feature-based au relation graph for facial action unit recognition." IJCAI 2022 (Equal first author)

[4] Shao, Zilong, Siyang Song*, Shashank Jaiswal, Linlin Shen*, Michel Valstar, and Hatice Gunes. "Personality Recognition by Modelling Person-specific Cognitive Processes using Graph Representation." 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (2021). (Corresponding author)

[5]Song, Siyang, Shashank Jaiswal, Linlin Shen, and Michel Valstar. "Spectral representation of behaviour primitives for depression analysis." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2020).

[6] Song, Siyang, Shashank Jaiswal, Enrique Sanchez, Georgios Tzimiropoulos, Linlin Shen, and Michel Valstar. "Self-supervised Learning of Person-specific Facial Dynamics for Automatic Personality Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2021).

Grand Challenge and Workshop Organization:

I have been served as the chair for several international affective computing and HCI Challenges/workshops including:

Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge: IEEE FG REACT 2024  and ACM MM REACT 2023.

Pain Detection Competition at IEEE EmoPain 2020

AI Emotion and Depression Detection Competition at ACM MM AVEC 2019.

HCI: AHRI 2022 and AHRI 2023

I have also contributed as a reviewer for several top-tier international journals and conferences, including IEEE PAMI, IJCV, IEEE TAFFC, IEEE TIP, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, and others.

 

Contact Details

Room: 
GC01
Email: 

ss2796@cam.ac.uk

ss1535@leicester.ac.uk