Schuller, Björn PhD
Professor at
Imperial College London
Leading researcher
with 1524 publications
in the last 39 years
ORCID:
0000-0002-6478-8699
Björn W. Schuller received his diploma in 1999, his doctoral degree for his study on Automatic Speech and Emotion Recognition in 2006, and his habilitation (fakultas docendi) and was entitled Adjunct Teaching Professor (venia legendi) in the subject area of Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence for his work on Intelligent Audio Analysis in 2012 all in electrical engineering and information technology from TUM in Munich/Germany. At present, he is Full Professor and head of the Chair of Complex and Intelligent Systems at the University of Passau/Germany where he previously headed the Chair of Sensor Systems in 2013. At the same time he is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Machine Learning in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London/UK since 2015, being a Senior Lecturer since 2013. Further, he is the co-founding CEO of audEERING GmbH – a TUM start-up on intelligent audio engineering. Previously, he headed the Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing Group at TUM from 2006 to 2014. In 2013 he was also invited as a permanent Visiting Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin/P.R. China and a Visiting Professor at the Université de Genève in Geneva/Switzerland and remains an appointed associate of the institute. In 2016 he was further invited as Professor of the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius/Lithuania. In 2012 he was with Joanneum Research, Institute for Information and Communication Technologies in Graz/Austria, remaining an expert consultant of the institute until 2016. In 2011 he was guest lecturer at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) in Ancona/Italy and visiting researcher in the Machine Learning Research Group of NICTA in Sydney/Australia. From 2009 to 2010 he lived in Paris/France and was with the CNRS-LIMSI Spoken Language Processing Group in Orsay/France, and was a visiting scientist at Imperial College. Best known are his works advancing Machine Learning for the Engineering of Intelligent Audio and Multisensorial Complex Information Systems, Affective Computing, mHealth, Human-Computer/Robot Interaction, and Multimedia Retrieval. Dr. Schuller is an elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE, and member of the ACM and ISCA. Before, he was President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC, 2013-2015), and Honorary Fellow and member of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). He (co-)authored 5 books and more than 600 publications in peer reviewed books (>30), journals (>80), and conference proceedings in the field (>13000 citations, h-index = 55). He is Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Associate and repeated Guest Editor for the Computer Speech and Language, associate editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and guest editor for the IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Knowledge-Based Systems, Methods, Neural Networks, Speech Communication, Image and Vision Computing, Cognitive Computation, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, reviewer for more than 100 leading journals and 80 conferences in the field, General Chair of aaac/IEEE ACII 2019 and ACM ICMI 2014, and as workshop and challenge organizer including the first of their kind INTERSPEECH 2009-2016 annual Computational Paralinguistics Challenges and the 2011-2016 annual Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop and a Program Chair of INTERSPEECH 2019, ACM ICMI 2013, IEEE SocialCom 2012, and ACII 2011 and 2015, Area Chair of the ACM Multimedia, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ICTAI, EURASIP EUSIPCO and program committee member of more than 180 international workshops and conf
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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity
Aggregated career metrics
1524
Total documents
2.98
Normalized Impact
437
Highly Cited Papers (10%)
50.0
International Collab. (%)
Most cited publications
Main coauthors
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Dimensions One by One
Spanning 73 diverse indicators, the dimensions considered capture a comprehensive spectrum of academic
attributes.
Each dimension includes a set of indicators and has a especific weight on the One Index.
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Activity
974
/1000
Reflects an author's research output.
Impact
941
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Excellence
993
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Leadership
924
/1000
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
Cooperation
849
/1000
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
Openness
995
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
Community Support
394
/1000
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
Community Recognition
0
/1000
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
Transference
293
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
Fundraising
0
/1000
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
All indicators
Performance
Activity
Reflects an author's research output.
| Documents | 1524 | Count of all document types. |
|---|---|---|
| Docs/Year | 39.08 | Average of documents published by author per year. |
| Citable docs | 1062 | Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews. |
| Journal Articles | 450 | Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed. |
| Conferences | 593 | Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium. |
| Reviews | 19 | Review papers authored by the researcher. |
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
| Theses | 0 | Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings |
| Books | 14 | A whole monograph or the entire book. |
| Book Chapters | 0 | Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator. |
| Datasets | 56 | Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation. |
| Editorials | 18 | Papers where the author contributed editorial content. |
| Reports | 0 | Research reports or white papers authored. |
| Grants | 0 | Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author. |
| Pre-Prints | 285 | Number of publications freely available in pre-print format. |
| Clinical Trials | N/A | Number of clinical trials where the author has participated. |
| Other types | 0 | Other type of documents. |
Impact
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citations | 45572 | Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types). |
|---|---|---|
| Self Citations | 7354 | Citations where the author references their own previous work. |
| Self Citation Rate | 16.137 | Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count. |
| Non Self Citation Rate | 83.863 | Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations. |
| Hot Citations | 1341 | Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months. |
| Citations/Document | 29.9 | Average of citations recieved per document. |
| % Not Cited | 0.0 | Percentage of documents with no citations recieved. |
| Relative Citation Index | 2.981 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| Journal Relative Citation Index | 2.555 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| H Index | 95 | Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times. |
| G Index | 179 | Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times. |
| i10 Index | 621 | Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved. |
Excellence
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citation Score | 0.658 | Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th. |
|---|---|---|
| Citation Normalized Percentile | 0.618 | Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex. |
| Higly Cited Papers (top 10%) | 437 | Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Higly Cited Papers | 2.867 | Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 1%) | 69 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Outstanding Papers | 4.528 | Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%) | 7 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Hot Papers | 39 | Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
Interaction within community
Leadership
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
| Docs Leadership | 1062 | Number of documents lead by the author. |
|---|---|---|
| % Leadership | 69.69 | Percentage of documents lead by the author. |
| Docs International Leadership | 499 | Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| % International Leadership | 32.74 | Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| Principal Investigator | 0 | Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project. |
| Associations Founded | 0 | Number of associations founded by the author. |
| Societies Founded | 0 | Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author. |
| Foundations Founded | 0 | Number of research-related foundations established by the author. |
| Councils | 0 | Number of councils founded by author. |
Cooperation
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
| Authors/Paper | 5.91 | Average number of authors per document. |
|---|---|---|
| % Highly Authored Papers | 1.71 | Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors. |
| Countries/Paper | 1.68 | Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document. |
| Docs International Collaboration | 762 | Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line. |
| % International Collaboration | 50.0 | Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line. |
Community Support
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
| Peer Review Counts | 3 | Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications. |
|---|---|---|
| Society Membership | 0 | Number of societies of wich the author is a member. |
| Society Memberships | 0 | Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies. |
| Editorial Board Memberships | 0 | Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board. |
| Panelists | 0 | Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls. |
Community Recognition
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
| Distinctions | 0 | Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career. |
|---|---|---|
| Invitations | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations. |
| Talks | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to talks. |
| Professorships | 0 | Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips. |
| Commissioned Reports | 0 | Commissioned reports done by the author. |
Interaction with society
Openness
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
| Open Access Documents | 1011 | Number of documents in Open Access mode. |
|---|---|---|
| % Open Access Documents | 66.34 | Percentage of documents in Open Access mode. |
| Open Access Gold | 85 | Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ. |
| Open Access Green | 800 | Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository. |
| Open Access Hybrid | 36 | Free under an open license in a toll-access journal. |
| Open Access Bronze | 82 | Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license. |
| Open Access Closed | 513 | Non Open Access documents. |
Transference
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
|---|---|---|
| Advisory Boards | 0 | Number of advisory boards of which the author is member. |
| Companies | 0 | Number of companies created or founded by the author. |
Fundraising
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
| Funding Counts | 0 | Number of activities reported as funding recieved. |
|---|---|---|
| ERC Grantees | 0 | Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council. |