Rubén Solera-Ureña received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in Multimedia and Communications in 2011, both from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Since May 2015, he is a researcher at Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (L2F), INESC-ID Lisbon. His research interests focus on the application of signal processing and machine learning methods to real-life pattern recognition, classification and prediction problems, specially in the fields of speech processing, automatic speech recognition, computational paralinguistics, image analysis and time-series analysis. He has participated in 16 national and international projects. From May 2015 to December 2018 he worked in project INSIDE, which explored symbiotic interactions between children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and robots used for therapeutical purposes.
Publications
International Journals
2019
- Francisco S. Melo, Alberto Sardinha, David Belo, Marta Couto, Miguel Afonso Tomás Faria, Anabela Farias, Hugo Gambôa, Cátia Jesus, Mithun Kinarullathil, Pedro Lima, Luís Luz, André Mateus, Isabel Melo, Plinio Moreno, Daniel Osório, Ana Paiva, Jhielson Pimentel, João Rodrigues, Pedro Sequeira, Rubén Solera Ureña, Miguel Serras Vasco, Manuela Veloso, Rodrigo Ventura, Project INSIDE: towards autonomous semi-unstructured human–robot social interaction in autism therapy, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 96, pages 198-216, May 2019
International Conferences
2021
- Rubén Solera Ureña, Catarina Botelho, Francisco Teixeira, Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, Transfer Learning-Based Cough Representations for Automatic Detection of COVID-19, In Interspeech 2021, pages 436--440, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1702, August 2021
2020
- Anna Maria Pompili, Rubén Solera Ureña, Alberto Abad, Rita Cardoso, Isabel Guimarães, Margherita Fabbri, Isabel P Martins, Joaquim Ferreira, Assessment of Parkinson's Disease Medication State through Automatic Speech Analysis, In Interspeech 2020, pages 4591--4595, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2726, October 2020
2019
- Vera Cabarrão, Mariana Julião, Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Affective analysis of customer service calls, In 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2019), pages 37-40, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2019
- Helena Moniz, Rubén Solera Ureña, Vera Cabarrão, Mariana Julião, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Affective computing based on acoustic-prosodic cues, In 14th Annual INGRoup Conference (Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research), , Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019
2017
- Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Joana Campos, Ana Paiva, Isabel Trancoso, A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Acoustic-Prosodic Personality Perception in Under-Resourced Domains, In Interspeech 2017, pages 929--933, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1732, Stockholm, Sweeden, August 2017
2016
- Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Joana Campos, Ana Paiva, Isabel Trancoso, Acoustic-prosodic automatic personality trait assessment for adults and children, In IberSPEECH 2016, Springer International Publishing, vol. 10077, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 192--201, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49169-1_19, , Lisbon, November 2016
National Journals
2019
- Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso, Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semissupervisionada para a classificação automática de personalidade baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas, Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, vol. 5, pages 348-364, September 2019
National Conferences
2018
- Rubén Solera Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Maria Pompili, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso, Uma abordagem de aprendizagem semi-supervisionada para a percepção automática de personalidade, baseada em pistas acústico-prosódicas em domínios com poucos recursos, In XXXIV Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2018
Technical Reports
2017
- Marta Couto, Cátia Jesus, Rubén Solera Ureña, The Ideal Study Protocol, Tech. Rep. 12 / 2017 INESC-ID Lisboa, December 2017
2016
MSc theses
Ongoing
- "Multi-lingual cross-corpus analysis of COVID-19 patients’ recordings of speech and respiratory sounds", , . Instituto Superior Técnico (2022-). Alberto Abad, advisor. Rubén Solera Ureña, co-advisor.
- Multi-lingual Cross-corpus Analysis of COVID-19 Patients Recordings of Speech and Respiratory Sounds, Francisco Marques. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2022-). Alberto Abad, advisor. Rubén Solera Ureña, co-advisor.
Internships
Finished
- Automatic Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction (Erasmus Internship), Benjamim Chamand. INESC-ID (2016). Rubén Solera Ureña, advisor. Luísa Coheur, co-advisor.