Research and academic

My current research is about affective representation of movie scenes based on the emotions that are actually felt by spectators. Such a representation can be used for characterizing the emotional content of video clips for e.g. affective video indexing and retrieval. I use physiological responses to recognize emotions of the spectators. The physiological signals which we use in our research are electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), respiration amplitude and skin temperature. In addition to physiological responses, I have also used multimedia content features (audio- and video- based) to characterize movie scenes.

During my masters in biomedical engineering, I worked on functional MRI group analysis. Functional neuroimaging techniques are means of detecting active regions of brain during a specified task. I utilized wavelet based noise removal and spatial smoothing method to improve the random effect, and variance ration smoothing activation detection methods.

You can consult our laboratory page for my current research.

[2009, article] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., Hossein-Zadeh, G., & Soltanian-Zadeh, H. (2009). Fixed and Random Effect Analysis of Multi-Subject fMRI Data using Wavelet Transform. Journal of neuroscience methods, 76(2), 237-245.

[2009, article| URL] (BIB)

Chanel, G., Kierkels, J. J. M., Soleymani, M., & Pun, T. (2009). Short-term emotion assessment in a recall paradigm. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67(8), 607-627.

[2009, article] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., Chanel, G., Kierkels, J. J. M., & Pun, T. (2009). Affective Characterization of Movie Scenes Based on Content Analysis and Physiological Changes. International Journal of Semantic Computing, 3(2), 235-254.

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Soleymani, M., Kierkels, J. J. M., Chanel, G., & Pun, T. (2009). A Bayesian Framework for Video Affective Representation. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent interaction, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

[2009, inproceedings] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., Davis, J., & Pun, T. (2009). A collaborative Personalized Affective Video Retrieval System. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent interaction, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

[2009, inproceedings] (BIB)

Kierkels, J. J. M., Soleymani, M., & Pun, T. (2009). Queries and tags in affect-based multimedia retrieval. Paper presented at the Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo, Special Session on Implicit Tagging (ICME2009), New York, United States.

[2008, inproceedings] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., Chanel, G., Kierkels, J., & Pun, T. (2008). Affective Characterization of Movie Scenes Based on Multimedia Content Analysis and User's Physiological Emotional Responses. Paper presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Berkeley, US.

[2008, inproceedings] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., Chanel, G., Kierkels, J., & Pun, T. (2008). Affective Ranking of Movie Scenes Using Physiological Signals and Content Analysis. Paper presented at the 2nd ACM Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics, ACM MM08, Vacnouver, Canada.

[2007, inproceedings| Download] (BIB)

Benovoy, M., Brouse, A., Corcoran, T. G., Drayson, H., Erkut, C., & Filatriau, J., et al. (2007). Audiovisual Content Generation Controlled by Physiological Signals for Clinical and Artistic Applications. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the eNTERFACE 2007 Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey.

[2006, inproceedings] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., & Hossein-Zadeh, G. (2006). Analysis of Multi Subject fMRI Time Series Using Fixed and Random Effect Model in Wavelet Domain. Paper presented at the proceeding of Biosignal(European signal processing society), Brno, Czech.

[2006, inproceedings] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., Hossein-Zadeh, G., & Soltanian-Zadeh, H. (2006). Fixed and Random Effect Analysis of Multi-Subject Spatial Activation Maps in Wavelet Domain.. Paper presented at the Proceeding of IEEE World congress on computational intelligence, IJCNN, Vancouver, Canada.

[2005, inproceedings] (BIB)

Pirsiavash, H., Soleymani, M., & Hossein-Zadeh, G. (2005). An Iterative Approach for Reconstruction of Arbitrary Sparsely Sampled Magnetic Resonance Images. Paper presented at the 18th IEEE symposium on computer in medical systems, Dublin, Ireland.

[2003, inproceedings] (BIB)

Soleymani, M., & Razzazi, F. (2003). An Iterative Approach for Reconstruction of Arbitrary Sparsely Sampled Magnetic Resonance Images. Paper presented at the IJCI Proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing, Turkey.

[2007, misc] (BIB)

Lehembre, R., Muhl, C., Gundogdu, U., Sayin, A., Soleymani, M., & Erkut, C. (2007). Auditory vs. visual feedback in an asynchronous brain-computer interface. Leuven, Belgium.