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Dr. Tianyi Zhang (张天翼)
Postdoc Researcher
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Organizational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)

About Me ([CV in English] [中文简历])


I am a Postdoc researcher at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Organizational Psychology in Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) under the supervision of prof. dr. RE de Vries. I got my Ph.D from Multimedia Computing Group in Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). During my Ph.D time, I worked as a PhD candidate at the Distributed & Interactive Systems Group in Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) , the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. I was so fortunate to work toward my PhD under the supervision of Prof. dr. Pablo Cesar (TU Delft, CWI), Dr. Abdallah El Ali (CWI), and Prof. dr. Alan Hanjalic (TU Delft). My research interest includes:

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Automatic Personality Recognition
  • Affective Computing
  • Physiological Sensing
  • Machine Learning and Deep learning
  • Computer Vision and its application

News


  • Sept. 2023: Two papers got accepted by IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing.
  • Feb. 2023: Start my postdoc position at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Organizational Psychology in VU
  • Oct. 2022: Successfully defend my Ph.D thesis: "On Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video: How to Trade off Recognition Accuracy with Annotation Complexity?" in TU Delft. I AM A DOCTOR NOW 0_0 !!!
  • Jun. 2022: Paper accepted on Multimodal-based and Aesthetic-guided Narrative Video Summarization at IEEE Transaction on Multimedia
  • Mar. 2022: Paper accepted on Few-shot Learning for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition using Physiological Signals at IEEE Transaction on Multimedia
  • Mar. 2022: Paper accepted on Weakly-supervised Learning for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition at IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing
  • Nov. 2021: Dataset paper accepted at IEEE Transaction on Multimedia
  • Sep.2021: Poster on AC-WGAN-GP accepted to UbiComp 2021
  • May. 2021: One conference paper on continuous annotation in VR environment has been accepted by CHI 2021
  • Jan. 2021: One journal paper on fine-grained emotion recognition for video watchinghas been accepted by Sensors
  • Apr. 2020: One conference paper on continuous annotation in mobile environment has been accepted by CHI 2020
  • May. 2019: Two conference paper has been accepted by ICMI 2019
  • Jul. 2018: Start my PhD at CWI

Selected Publications (full list)


Unsupervised Multimodal Learning for Dependency-Free Personality Recognition
Sina Ghassemi1, Tianyi Zhang*, Ward van Breda, Antonis Koutsoumpis, Janneke K. Oostrom, Djurre Holtrop, and Reinout E. de Vries
IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing 2023
Journal Paper link


Group Synchrony for Emotion Recognition using Physiological Signals
Patricia Bota, Tianyi Zhang*, Abdallah El Ali, Ana Fred, Hugo Placido da Silva, and Pablo Cesar
IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing 2023
Journal Paper link


On Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video: How to Trade off Recognition Accuracy with Annotation Complexity?
Tianyi Zhang
TU Delft
Thesis Paper link


Few-shot Learning for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition using Physiological Signals
Tianyi Zhang, Abdallah El Ali, Alan Hanjalic, and Pablo Cesar
IEEE Transaction on Multimedia 2022
Journal Paper link


Weakly-supervised Learning for Fine-grained Emotion Recognition using Physiological Signals
Tianyi Zhang, Abdallah El Ali, Alan Hanjalic, and Pablo Cesar
IEEE Transaction on Affective Computing 2022
Journal Paper link


CorrNet: Fine-grained Emotion Recognition for Video Watching using Wearable Physiological Sensors
Tianyi Zhang, Abdallah El Ali,Chen Wang, Alan Hanjalic, and Pablo Cesar
Sensors 2021
Journal Paper link


RCEA: Real-time, Continuous Emotion Annotation for Collecting Precise Mobile Video Ground Truth Labels
Tianyi Zhang, Abdallah El Ali,Chen Wang, Alan Hanjalic, and Pablo Cesar
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Conference Paper link Oral presentation


CorrFeat: correlation-based feature extraction algorithm using skin conductance and pupil diameter for emotion recognition
Tianyi Zhang, Abdallah El Ali,Chen Wang, Alan Hanjalic, and Pablo Cesar
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2019
Conference Paper link


How Old Do You Look? Inferring Your Age from Your Gaze
Tianyi Zhang, and Olivier Le Meur
25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018
Conference Paper link