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Laurence Devillers

Laurence Devillers

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
34
Citations
7937
World Ranking
11938
National Ranking
299

Laurence Devillers publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurence Devillers sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 157 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Laurence Devillers D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurence Devillers sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Laurence Devillers is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and focuses primarily on research intersecting computer science and psychology. Their academic contributions span diverse areas including artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to research.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Psychology

Subfields of research encompass:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Safety Research
  • Signal Processing

Laurence Devillers has produced work related to several core topics, highlighting the scope of their investigations. Main topics covered in their research are:

  • Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI (Human-Robot Interaction)
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Language and cultural evolution

Their publication record features articles in prominent venues and conferences, with some of the recent papers including:

  • Ethical Considerations on Affective Computing: An Overview (2023), Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Investigating Transformer Encoders and Fusion Strategies for Speech Emotion Recognition in Emergency Call Center Conversations. (2022), INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION
  • Rethinking Auditory Affective Descriptors Through Zero-Shot Emotion Recognition in Speech (2021), IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • Children as Candidates to Verbal Nudging in a Human-robot Experiment (2020), Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
  • Spoken Language Interaction with Virtual Agents and Robots (SLIVAR): Towards Effective and Ethical Interaction (Dagstuhl Seminar 20021) (2020), Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

The venues where Laurence Devillers frequently publishes include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION
  • Proceedings of the IEEE
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Théo Deschamps-Berger
  • Lori Lamel
  • Sofiya Kobylyanskaya
  • Ioana Vasilescu
  • Hugues Ali Mehenni

Laurence Devillers has also contributed to book publications, including one published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled la souveraineté numérique dans l'après-crise (2020).

Best Publications

  • The Geneva Minimalistic Acoustic Parameter Set (GeMAPS) for Voice Research and Affective Computing

    Florian Eyben;Klaus R. Scherer;Bjorn W. Schuller;Johan Sundberg

  • The INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge

    Björn W. Schuller;Stefan Steidl;Anton Batliner;Felix Burkhardt

  • 2005 Special Issue: Challenges in real-life emotion annotation and machine learning based detection

    Laurence Devillers;Laurence Vidrascu;Lori Lamel

  • The HUMAINE Database: Addressing the Collection and Annotation of Naturalistic and Induced Emotional Data

    Ellen Douglas-Cowie;Roddy Cowie;Ian Sneddon;Cate Cox

  • Paralinguistics in speech and language-State-of-the-art and the challenge

    BjöRn Schuller;Stefan Steidl;Anton Batliner;Felix Burkhardt

  • The relevance of feature type for the automatic classification of emotional user states: low level descriptors and functionals.

    Björn W. Schuller;Anton Batliner;Dino Seppi;Stefan Steidl

  • Fear-type emotion recognition for future audio-based surveillance systems

    C. Clavel;I. Vasilescu;L. Devillers;G. Richard

  • Real-life emotions detection with lexical and paralinguistic cues on Human-Human call center dialogs

    Laurence Devillers;Laurence Vidrascu

  • Whodunnit - Searching for the most important feature types signalling emotion-related user states in speech

    Anton Batliner;Stefan Steidl;Björn Schuller;Dino Seppi

  • Combining Efforts for Improving Automatic Classification of Emotional User States

    A. Batliner;S. Steidl;B. Schuller;D. Seppi

  • CNN+LSTM Architecture for Speech Emotion Recognition with Data Augmentation

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  • Detection of real-life emotions in call centers

    Laurence Vidrascu;Laurence Devillers

  • Emotion detection in task-oriented spoken dialogues

    L. Devillers;L. Lamel;I. Vasilescu

  • Dialog in the RAILTEL telephone-based system

    S. Bennacef;L. Devillers;S. Rosset;L. Lamel

  • Towards a small set of robust acoustic features for emotion recognition: challenges

    Marie Tahon;Laurence Devillers

  • Multimodal databases of everyday emotion: facing up to complexity.

    Ellen Douglas-Cowie;Laurence Devillers;Jean-Claude Martin;Roddy Cowie

  • MULTIMODAL COMPLEX EMOTIONS: GESTURE EXPRESSIVITY AND BLENDED FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

    Jean-Claude Martin;Radoslaw Niewiadomski;Laurence Devillers;Stephanie Buisine

  • Real life emotions in French and English TV video clips: an integrated annotation protocol combining continuous and discrete approaches

    Laurence Devillers;Roddy Cowie;Jean-Claude Martin;Ellen Douglas-Cowie

  • The Automatic Recognition of Emotions in Speech

    Anton Batliner;Björn Schuller;Dino Seppi;Stefan Steidl

  • Spoken Language Component of the MASK Kiosk

    J. L. Gauvain;S. Bennacef;L. Devillers;L. F. Lamel

  • Perception of blended emotions : From video corpus to expressive agent

    Stéphanie Buisine;Sarkis Abrilian;Radoslaw Niewiadomski;Jean-Claude Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Anton Batliner
Anton Batliner University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Björn Schuller
Björn Schuller Imperial College London
Lori Lamel
Lori Lamel University of Paris-Saclay
Catherine Pelachaud
Catherine Pelachaud Sorbonne University
Roddy Cowie
Roddy Cowie Queen's University Belfast
Stefan Steidl
Stefan Steidl MorphoSys (Germany)
Kostas Karpouzis
Kostas Karpouzis Panteion University
Gael Richard
Gael Richard Télécom ParisTech
Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California
Jean-Luc Gauvain
Jean-Luc Gauvain Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

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