Carlos Busso
Professor
Studies human-centered multimodal machine intelligence, including affective speech processing and speech-based interfaces.
Carlos Busso's lab at CMU works on speech recognition & spoken language, affective & health speech and multimodal & grounded language. 95 papers since 2023, 13 at top venues, mostly Interspeech. 6 PhD students and 7 master's students. 61 alumni, most often to Google and Samsung. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 25/ year
- at T1 venues
- 14%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 7
- alumni listed
- 61
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 21 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 27 papers2025 · T1 3
- 23 papers2024 · T1 6
- 24 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Interspeech
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language50 papers
- Affective & health speech49 papers
- Multimodal & grounded language7 papers
- speech-based0 papers
- speech processing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202621 papers
- —[ArXiv 2506.10207] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2508.09826] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2509.08470] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2509.09791] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2509.24187] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2601.06329] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2601.17085] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2601.18027] (opens in a new tab)
- Spotlight ICML Paper![ArXiv 2602.12714] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2602.14224] (opens in a new tab)
- in ISCA Interspeech , Sydney, Australia, September-OctoberComparative reasoning: Making an audio language model better at comparing emotions
- early accessContextual attention for robust audio-visual emotion recognition
202527 papers
- —[ArXiv 2305.07216] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2407.17716] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2412.19909] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2505.20341] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2505.23732] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2505.23962] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2509.20373] (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Advancing pediatric ASR: The role of voice generation in disordered speech
- acceptedAffective priming in emotional annotations and its effect on speech emotion recognition
- Interspeech (T1)Analysis of phonetic level similarities across languages in emotional speech
- 289-299, FebruaryDeep learning-based assessment of lip symmetry for patients with repaired cleft lip
- 485-498, April-JuneDifferential impacts of monologue and conversation on speech emotion recognition
202423 papers
- —[ArXiv 2210.13756] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2403.14083] (opens in a new tab)
- —[ArXiv 2406.04494] (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)A layer-anchoring strategy for enhancing cross-lingual speech emotion recognition
- 5117-5130, NovemberAn interpretable deep mutual information curriculum metric for a robust and generalized speech emotion recognition system
- 1754-1768, July-SeptemberAnalyzing continuous-time and sentence-level annotations for speech emotion recognition
- in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS , Orlando, FL, USA, JulyBeyond dysplasia: Uncovering structure in oral potentially malignant diseases with unsupervised contrastive learning
- Interspeech (T1)Bridging emotions across languages: Low rank adaptation for multilingual speech emotion recognition
- 025001, July-SeptemberComputer-assisted discrimination of cancerous and pre-cancerous from benign oral lesions based on multispectral autofluorescence imaging endoscopy
- 4120, DecemberContrastive clustering-based patient normalization to improve automated, in vivo oral cancer diagnosis from multispectral autofluorescence
- in IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG , Istanbul, Turkey, MayData augmentation techniques for enhanced facial landmarks detection in patients with repaired cleft lip and palate
- 103027, FebruaryDeep temporal clustering features for speech emotion recognition
202324 papers
- —[ArXiv 2012.12754] (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSPAdapting a self-supervised speech representation for noisy speech emotion recognition by using contrastive teacher-student learning
- 457-468, JanuaryAligning small datasets using domain adversarial learning: Applications in automated in vivo oral cancer diagnosis
- in International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII , Cambridge, MA, USAAn intelligent infrastructure toward large scale naturalistic affective speech corpora collection
- in International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII , Cambridge, MA, USAAnalyzing the effect of affective priming on emotional annotations
- 1215-1227, April-JuneChunk-level speech emotion recognition: A general framework of sequence-to-one dynamic temporal modeling
- ASRU WorkshopCombining relative and absolute learning formulations to predict emotional attributes from speech
- Interspeech (T1)Computation and memory efficient noise adaptation of Wav2Vec2.0 for noisy speech emotion recognition with skip connection adapters
- Interspeech (T1)Distant speech emotion recognition in an indoor human-robot interaction scenario
- 216-231, MarchDriver visual attention estimation using head pose and eye appearance information
- in ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI , Paris, France, OctoberEnhancing resilience to missing data in audio-text emotion recognition with multi-scale chunk regularization
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV , Anchorage, AK, USA, JuneExample-based query to identify cause of driving anomaly with few labeled samples
Where alumni went61 listed, 27% to industry
Industry 4Academia 11
Most often to
- Samsung
Also to
- The University of Texas at Dallas
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cornell University
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