Università di Napoli,Department of Psychology,
and Associate researcher at International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS)
e-mail : a.esposito AT iiassvietri.it e-mail: iiass.annaesp@tin.it, anna.esposito@unina2.it
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT, Cambridge), visiting scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences under the sponsorship of the Italian Ph.D. Fellowship (host professors: Kenneth Stevens and Michael Jordan).
"Laurea" in Computer Science earned with the maximum score earned at Salerno University, Italy. Title of thesis: A study on the behavior and the learning process of deterministic neural networks: how to increase their storage capacity (in Italian).
She received her Ph.D Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer science from Naples University, “Federico II” in 1995. She spent two years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics to develop her Ph.D thesis on: Vowel Height and Consonantal Voicing Effects: Data from Italian (published on Phonetica, vol. 59, n.4, pp.197-231, November 2002).
She has been Post-Doc at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific
Studies (IIASS), Italy, and Assistant Professor at the Department of
Physics at the University of Salerno (Italy), where from January 1996
to October 2000, she taught classes in Cybernetics, Neural Networks,
and Speech Processing.
From November 2000 to December 2002 she got a position as Research
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright
State University, Dayton, OH, USA to which she currently collaborate
as research affiliate.
She also maintained her collaboration and affiliation with
the University of Salerno, Department of Physics, the IIASS and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), RLE, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Anna is currently Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples. She joined her Department on January 2003 where she teach on Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues of Multimodal Communication. She is author of more than 130 publications on international journals, books, and conference proceedings with peer review, and editor of 19 international books coming out from schools and conferences jointly organized with EU and overseas colleagues.
Anna has been a Management Committee Member of COST 277: Nonlinear
Speech Processing, http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/ict/Actions/277.
From December 2006 to February 2011, she has been the chair
of COST 2102 (cost2102.cs.stir.ac.uk/): “Cross Modal Analysis
of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication”, http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/ict/Actions/2102.
Since 206, she is Member of the European Network for the Advancement
of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (http://www.eucognition.org);
She is a Management Committee Member of:
• COST TIMELY: Time in Mental Activity,http://www.timely-cost.eu;
• COST MUMIA: MUltilingual and Multifaceted Interactive information
Access, http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC1002;
o Dec
2002 to date: Associate
professor in Computer Science, Department of Psychology, Second University
of Naples, Caserta, IT
o
Nov 1 2000 – Nov 30 2002: Research Professor
at Wright State University, Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, Dayton,
Ohio, USA
o Dec 1997 – 2009: Assistant Professor at
SALERNO UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, Baronissi, Salerno
IT.
o Dec 1995 – Oct 30 2000: Assistant professor
at International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies
(IIASS), Vietri sul Mare,
IT
o Mar 1 1995 – Oct 30 1995: Post-doc research
fellowship on Perceptual and Acoustic Analysis of Speech.
International Institute for Advanced
Scientific Studies (IIASS), Vietri sul Mare, IT
o Oct 1 1989 – Nov
1 1990: System Manager
(article n. 26) of the Computer Laboratory of Physics, Department
of Theoretical Physics,
Salerno University, IT
o Apr 1989 – Sep 30 1989: Research position in the Communications Software Department of TELETTRA (government owned company), Milan, IT
a) the exploitation of state of art and advanced research materials
b) the engagement into the design of experimental team and individual research projects
c) the employment of innovative teaching methods and the delivery of innovative course material
d) the involvement into to challenging research questions
TEACHING ACTIVITIES at SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
o Academic Years (AA) 2009-2010 to date: Doctoral School in Science for life and Environment. PhD Course on Modes and Models of Communication and Reasoning (8 CFU)
o AA 2009-2010 to date: Master Degree Programme
in “Psychology
of Cognitive Processes”. Master Course on Multimodal Communication:
Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues (8 CFU)
o AA 2005-2009: Master Degree Programmes in “Psychology of Cognitive
Processes and Functional Rehabilitation” and “Clinical and
Developmental Psychology”. Master Courses on Informatics ( 4 CFU)
o AA 2005-2009: Bachelor degree in “Scientific and Psychological
Methods for Understanding People and Communities”. Bachelor Course
on Fundamentals of Computer Science (4 CFU, Doubled)
o AA 2003- 2005: Bachelor degree in “Psychology of learning and
developmental processes”. Bachelor Course on Programming
tools for creating Multimodal products (4 CFU)
o AA 2002-2005: Bachelor degree Programmes
in “Psychology for
preventing individual and relational discomfort” and “Psychology
of learning and developmental processes”. Bachelor Courses on
Fundamentals of Computer Science ( 4 CFU)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES at SALERNO UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
• AA 2006-2009: Course at the Bachelor degree in “Physics
and Cybernetics” on Processing and Encoding of Physical
Signals (3 CFU)
•
AA 2002-2006: Course at the Bachelor degree in “Physics and Cybernetics” on Laboratory
of Cybernetics (3 CFU)
• AA 1997-2000: Course at the “Laurea” degree in “Physics
and Cybernetics” on Laboratory of Cybernetics (8 CFU)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES at INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES (IIASS)
• Dec 1995 – Oct 30 2000: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cycles
of the Master Programme in ``Advanced Technologies for Information Processing
and Communication" (sponsored by the Italian Government, M.U.R.S.T.
D.M. n. 308 of Jul 3 1995 and the European Community). Courses
on
o Speech and Signal processing
o Information Theory and Coding
o Neural Networks
o Distributed Systems
1) 1998 to date: Behavioural and contextual analysis of interaction. Semantics and sentiment analysis in dialogues and interactions. Cognitive and Emotional Processes. Cross-modal analysis of speech, gesture, facial and vocal expressions of emotions. Timing perception in language tasks.
2) 1995 to date: Cognitive and computational social information processing. Emotional and social believable Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) . Predictions of oro-facial motions to animate talking faces. Algorithmic and computational issues for the automatic recognition and synthesis of speech and emotions.
3) 1989 to date: Neural Networks: algorithm, models and applications.
Incremental Learning. Neural Auditory Processing.
The interdisciplinary research background provided a novel perspective
in the field of Human Computer Interaction with applications in Ambient
Assistive Technology for improving life quality and developing models
for the algorithmic implementation of friendly and emotionally coloured
interactive dialog systems and socially believable ICT multimodal interfaces.
Particular efforts are devoted to the following aspects:
1. The definition of qualitative and quantitative interactive
behavioural (gestural and emotional) features;
2. The development of mathematical models able to describe
and measure the quality of human-human interaction accounting for embodied
knowledge acquisition and embodied knowledge use
3. The cognitive and psychological support for developing specific
rehabilitation tools designed to preserve cognitive and motoric abilities.
PAST RESEARCH RESULTS
Audio and Multimedia Applications for disabled persons results: A Multimedia Program aimed to help teachers of deaf students.
Incremental Learning results: A Neural Network Model for function approximation, based on Incremental Learning has been developed.
Acoustic and Perceptual Analysis of Gemination in Italian results: The perceptual and acoustic attributes of the stop consonants in geminate and non-geminate form have been measured.
Spectrum shape analysis of Italian stop consonants results: A set of
acoustic features has been extracted from the spectrum shape analysis
of stop consonants that allow to discriminate
among the place of articulation.
Acoustic Analysis of Italian Speech results: The fundamental frequency, the formant frequencies, and the durations were measured throughout the vocalic portions of a number of phonemically symmetric Italian consonant-vowel-consonant utterances. Moreover, preliminary studies on Dysarthic speech were done.
Phonemes recognition, Speech Noise Cancellation and Noise Source Identification results: A set of experiments for classifying phonemes extracted from TIMIT have been performed. A set of experiments aimed to cancel noise from speech and to identify the noise source have been performed.
Neural Network (theory and applications) and Auditory
Processing results: A neural network for speaker adaptation implemented.
A new learning
paradigm for neural nets has been developed and applied to
implement a parallel neural adder and a neural network for correcting
and decoding
binary linear code. A model of the auditory apparatus was developed
and implemented.
Books
Apolloni B, Bassis S, Esposito A, Morabito FC (Eds.):
Neural Nets and Surroundings, WIRN 2012, May 17-19, Series: Smart
Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Vol. 19, XII, 464 p., ISBN
978-3-642-35466-3, 2013
http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-35466-3
Esposito A, Esposito AM, Vinciarelli A,
Hoffmann R, Müller
VC (Eds): Cognitive Behavioural Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, vol. 7403, pp. 1-450). ISBN 978-3-642-34583-8, Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg 2012. http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/book/978-3-642-34583-8
Papers
[20] Esposito A, Riviello
MT, Capuano V: Discriminating Human vs. Stylized Emotional Faces:
Recognition Accuracy in Young Children. In Apolloni B et al.
(Eds): Neural
Nets and Surroundings, 19, 395-403. Series Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies.
ISBN 978-3-642-35466-3, 2013
[19] Faundez-Zanuy M, Sesa-Nogueras E, Roure-Alcobe J, Garre-Olmo J, Mekyska J, Lopez-de-Ipiña K, Esposito A: A Preliminary Study of Online Drawings and Dementia Diagnose. In Apolloni B et al. (Eds): Neural Nets and Surroundings, 19, 367-374. Series Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, ISBN 978-3-642-35466-3, 2013
[18] Riviello MT, Esposito A: A Cross-Cultural Study on the Effectiveness of Visual and Vocal Channels in Transmitting Dynamic Emotional Information. In Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Journal of Applied Sciences, 9(1): 157-160, ISSN: 1785-8860, 2012
[17] Faundez-Zanuy M, Hussain A, Mekyska J,
Sesa-Nogueras E, Monte-Moreno E, Esposito A, Chetouani
M, Garre-Olmo J, Abel A, Smekal Z,
Lopez-de-Ipinã K:
Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life
beyond Security. Cognitive Computation, 1-16, DOI 10.1007/s12559-012-9169-9,
ISSN: 1866-9956 (print version), ISSN: 1866-9964 (electronic
version),
2012
[16] Riviello MT, Esposito A, Vicsi K (2012)
A Cross-Cultural Study on the Perception of Emotions: How Hungarian
Subjects
Evaluate American and Italian Emotional Expressions. In Esposito
A et al (eds), Behavioural Cognitive Systems, LNCS 7403,
424-433. ISBN: 978-3-642-34583-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-34584-5.
Springer Verlag, 2012.
[15] Esposito A, Capuano V, Mekyska J, Faundez-Zanuy
M (2012) A Naturalistic Database of Thermal Emotional Facial
Expressions and Effects of Induced Emotions on Memory. In Esposito
A et
al (eds), Behavioural Cognitive Systems, LNCS 7403, 158-173.
ISBN:
978-3-642-34583-8
e-ISBN 978-3-642-34584-5. Springer Verlag, 2012.
[14] Berardinelli
L, Cassioli D, Di Marco A, Esposito A, Riviello
MT, Trubiani C (2012) VISION as a support to Cognitive Behavioural
Systems. In Esposito A et al (eds), Behavioural Cognitive Systems,
LNCS 7403, 131-143, ISBN: 978-3-642-34583-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-34584-5.
Springer Verlag, 2012.
[13] Squartini S., Esposito A (2012) CO-WORKER:
Toward Real-Time and Context-Aware Systems for Human Collaborative
Knowledge
Building. Cognitive Computation, 4(2): 157-171, DOI 10.1007/s12559-012-9136-5,
2012, ISSN: 1866-9956 (print version), ISSN: 1866-9964 (electronic
version)
[12] Esposito A (2012) Affective Signal Processing (ASP): Unravelling the mystery of emotions, by Egon L. van den Broek. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 4(1), 67–69, DOI 10.3233/AIS-2011-0131, ISSN: 1876-1364, 2012
[11] Esposito A., Vinciarelli A., Haykin S., Hussain A., Faundez-Zanuy M (2012) Cognitive Computation Special Issue on Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Cognitive Computation Journal, 3(3), 417-418, ISSN: 1866-9956 (print version), ISSN: 1866-9964 (electronic version), DOI 10.1007/s12559-011-9107-2.
[10] Bourbakis N., Esposito A., Kavraki D.: Extracting and Associating Meta-features for Understanding People’s Emotional Behaviour: Face and Speech. Cognitive Computation Journal, 3(3), 436-448, ISSN: 1866-9956 (print version), ISSN: 1866-9964 (electronic version), 2011
[9] Vatakis, A., Esposito, A., Giagkou,
M.,Cummins, F., Papadelis, G. (Eds.): Multidisciplinary Aspects
of Time and Time Perception.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6789 , pp 1-291, ISBN
978-3-642-21477-6, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21478-3 , Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg
2011.
http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-21477-6
[8] Esposito A., Vinciarelli A., Vicsi K. Pelachoud
C., Nijholt A, (Eds): Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
and
Enactment, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6800, pp.
1-480). ISBN 978-3-642-25774-2, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
2011.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-25774-2/
[7] Esposito A., Esposito A. M.: On speech and gesture synchrony. In A. Esposito et al. (Eds), Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issue”. LNCS 6800, 252-272, ISBN 978-3-642-25774-2, Springer Verlag, 2011.
[6] Volpe R., Chanquoy L., Esposito A.: The Matrix of Meaning: Re-presenting Meaning in Mind. Prolegomena to a Theoretical Model. In A. Esposito et al. (Eds), Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issue”. LNCS n. 6800, 316-334, ISBN 978-3-642-25774-2, Springer Verlag, 2011.
[5] Riviello M.T., Chetouani M., Cohen D., Esposito A: On the perception of emotional “voices”: A cross-cultural comparison among American, French and Italian subjects. In A. Esposito et al. (Eds), Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issue”. LNCS 6800, 368-377, ISBN 978-3-642-25774-2, Springer Verlag, 2011.
[4] Rossini N. , Esposito A.: Modelling Human Behaviour in Emergency: A Research Agenda for the Creation of a Rescue Robot. In Apolloni, B., Bassis, S., Esposito, A., Morabito, C.F. (Eds): Neural Nets WIRN11, Vol. 234, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp.235-246, ISBN 978-1-60750-971-4, IOSpress, 2011
[3] Troncone A., Esposito A: On the recognition of emotional voices by typical and speech impaired children. In Apolloni, B., Bassis, S., Esposito, A., Morabito, C.F. (Eds): Neural Nets WIRN11, Vol. 234, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp 228-234, ISBN 978-1-60750-971-4, IOSpress, 2011.
[2] Esposito A., Riviello M.T.: The Cross-Modal and Cross-Cultural Processing of Affective Information. In B. Apolloni et al (Eds), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 226, 301-310, IOSpress, ISBN 978-1-60750-691-1 (print), ISBN 978-1-60750-692-8 (online) 301-310 (2011)
[1] Esposito A., Troncone A.: Emotions and Speech
Disorders: Do Developmental Stutters Recognize Emotional Vocal
Expressions? In
A. Esposito et al. (Eds.): Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and
Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical
Issues , COST 2102
Int. Training School 2010, LNCS 6456, pp. 155–164, ISBN: ISBN
978-3-642-18183-2 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
