Maja Pantic
Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing
Heads the i-bug group on machine analysis of human faces and behaviour, including facial expression recognition and audio-visual speech.
Maja Pantic's lab at Imperial works on recognition, detection & segmentation. 34 papers since 2023, 22 at top venues, mostly ICASSP and Interspeech. 61 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 65%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 61
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 8 papers2025 · T1 7
- 8 papers2024 · T1 6
- 16 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICASSP, Interspeech, CVPR, NeurIPS, TAFFC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Recognition, detection & segmentation15 papers
- audio-visual7 papers
- facial4 papers
- expression1 paper
- faces0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20262 papers
20258 papers
- ICASSP (T1)Contextual Speech Extraction: Leveraging Textual History as an Implicit Cue for Target Speech Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- TIP (T1)FP-Age: Leveraging Face Parsing Attention for Facial Age Estimation in the Wild (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Full-Rank No More: Low-Rank Weight Training for Modern Speech Recognition Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)KeyFace: Expressive Audio-Driven Facial Animation for Long Sequences via KeyFrame Interpolation (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Large Language Models are Strong Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Learners (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)MoME: Mixture of Matryoshka Experts for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Revival with Voice: Multi-modal Controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers Digit. HealthThe Noor Project: fair transformer transfer learning for autism spectrum disorder recognition from speech (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- ICASSP (T1)BRAVEn: Improving Self-supervised pre-training for Visual and Auditory Speech Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- WACVDiffused Heads: Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Talking-Face Generation (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Dynamic Data Pruning for Automatic Speech Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)EMOPortraits: Emotion-Enhanced Multimodal One-Shot Head Avatars (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.Large-Scale Unsupervised Audio Pre-Training for Video-to-Speech Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)MSRS: Training Multimodal Speech Recognition Models from Scratch with Sparse Mask Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)RT-LA-VocE: Real-Time Low-SNR Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Unified Speech Recognition: A Single Model for Auditory, Visual, and Audiovisual Inputs (opens in a new tab)
202316 papers
- TAFFC4DME: A Spontaneous 4D Micro-Expression Dataset With Multimodalities (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Auto-AVSR: Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with Automatic Labels (opens in a new tab)
- TAFFCDoes Visual Self-Supervision Improve Learning of Speech Representations for Emotion Recognition? (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Cybern.End-to-End Video-to-Speech Synthesis Using Generative Adversarial Networks (opens in a new tab)
- WACVFAN-Trans: Online Knowledge Distillation for Facial Action Unit Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Jointly Learning Visual and Auditory Speech Representations from Raw Data (opens in a new tab)
- Image Vis. Comput.KAN-AV dataset for audio-visual face and speech analysis in the wild (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)LA-VOCE: LOW-SNR Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Using Neural Vocoders (opens in a new tab)
- BMVCLaughing Matters: Introducing Audio-Driven Laughing-Face Generation with Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Learning Cross-Lingual Visual Speech Representations (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Self-Supervised Video-Centralised Transformer for Video Face Clustering (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)SparseVSR: Lightweight and Noise Robust Visual Speech Recognition (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went61 listed
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