publications

My Academic Thesis Work

2013 MSc Um Sistema Para Reconhecimento e Previsão de Gestos ( in Portuguese) Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
2011 BSc Projeto PaMDA - um framework semântico para geração de sistemas ( in Portuguese) Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Serra Talhada, Brazil

My Publications

2025

  1. Toward a positive emotion-elicitation human–robot interaction: positive emotion recognition with multimodal inputs
    Junpei Zhong, Jiancong Ye, Hongjie Jiang, and 1 more author
    In Digital Technology in Public Health and Rehabilitation Care, 2025

2024

  1. The use of reinforcement learning algorithms in object tracking: A systematic literature review
    Marie Chantelle C Medina, Bruno JT Fernandes, Pablo VA Barros, and 1 more author
    Neurocomputing, 2024

2023

  1. Incorporating rivalry in reinforcement learning for a competitive game
    Pablo Barros, Özge Nilay Yalçın, Ana Tanevska, and 1 more author
    Neural Computing and Applications, 2023
  2. Human-aligned reinforcement learning for autonomous agents and robots
    Francisco Cruz, Thommen George Karimpanal, Miguel A Solis, and 2 more authors
    Neural Computing and Applications, 2023

2022

  1. Affect-driven learning of robot behaviour for collaborative human-robot interactions
    Nikhil Churamani, Pablo Barros, Hatice Gunes, and 1 more author
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
  2. All by myself: learning individualized competitive behavior with a contrastive reinforcement learning optimization
    Pablo Barros, and Alessandra Sciutti
    Neural Networks, 2022
  3. OneFall-GAN: A one-class GAN framework applied to fall detection
    Yves M Galvão, Letı́cia Portela, Pablo Barros, and 2 more authors
    Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2022
  4. Ciao! a contrastive adaptation mechanism for non-universal facial expression recognition
    Pablo Barros, and Alessandra Sciutti
    In 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2022
  5. Affective shared perception
    Alessandra Sciutti, Pablo Barros, Ginevra Castellano, and 1 more author
    2022
  6. Across the universe: biasing facial representations toward non-universal emotions with the face-STN
    Pablo Barros, and Alessandra Sciutti
    IEEE Access, 2022
  7. I am Only Happy When There is Light: The Impact of Environmental Changes on Affective Facial Expressions Recognition
    Doreen Jirak, Alessandra Sciutti, Pablo Barros, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.17421, 2022

2021

  1. A sub-layered hierarchical pyramidal neural architecture for facial expression recognition
    Henrique Siqueira, Pablo Barros, Sven Magg, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.12362, 2021
  2. Learning from learners: Adapting reinforcement learning agents to be competitive in a card game
    Pablo Barros, Ana Tanevska, and Alessandra Sciutti
    In 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2021
  3. Do i have a personality? endowing care robots with context-dependent personality traits
    Antonio Andriella, Henrique Siqueira, Di Fu, and 5 more authors
    International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021
  4. A multimodal approach using deep learning for fall detection
    Yves M Galvão, Janderson Ferreira, Vinı́cius A Albuquerque, and 2 more authors
    Expert Systems with Applications, 2021
  5. It’s food fight! Designing the chef’s hat card game for affective-aware HRI
    Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti, Anne C Bloem, and 4 more authors
    In Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021
  6. I only have eyes for you: The impact of masks on convolutional-based facial expression recognition
    Pablo Barros, and Alessandra Sciutti
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021
  7. A framework for anomaly identification applied on fall detection
    Yves M Galvao, Letı́cia Portela, Janderson Ferreira, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Access, 2021
  8. You were always on my mind: introducing chef’s hat and copper for personalized reinforcement learning
    Pablo Barros, Anne C Bloem, Inge M Hootsmans, and 4 more authors
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
  9. Affect-aware learning for social robots
    Pablo Alves De Barros, Ana Tanevska, and Alessandra Sciutti
    In Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2021
  10. Special Issue on Automated Perception of Human Affect from Longitudinal Behavioral Data
    Pablo Barros, Stefan Wermter, Ognjen Rudovic, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2021
  11. How can AI recognize pain and express empathy
    Siqi Cao, Di Fu, Xu Yang, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2021

2020

  1. iCub: learning emotion expressions using human reward
    Nikhil Churamani, Francisco Cruz, Sascha Griffiths, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13483, 2020
  2. Understanding auditory representations of emotional expressions with neural networks
    Iris Wieser, Pablo Barros, Stefan Heinrich, and 1 more author
    Neural Computing and Applications, 2020
  3. What can computational models learn from human selective attention? A review from an audiovisual unimodal and crossmodal perspective
    Di Fu, Cornelius Weber, Guochun Yang, and 6 more authors
    Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2020
  4. The Chef’s Hat Simulation Environment for Reinforcement-Learning-Based Agents
    Pablo Barros, Anne C Bloem, Inge M Hootsmans, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05861, 2020
  5. Improving emotional expression recognition of robots using regions of interest from human data
    Anne C Bloem, Emilia Barakova, Inge M Hootsmans, and 4 more authors
    In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020
  6. Cnn encoder to reduce the dimensionality of data image for motion planning
    Janderson Ferreira, Agostinho AF Júnior, Yves M Galvao, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05077, 2020
  7. The facechannel: a fast and furious deep neural network for facial expression recognition
    Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, and Alessandra Sciutti
    SN Computer Science, 2020
  8. Adapting the interplay between personalized and generalized affect recognition based on an unsupervised neural framework
    Pablo Barros, Emilia Barakova, and Stefan Wermter
    IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2020
  9. Moody learners-explaining competitive behaviour of reinforcement learning agents
    Pablo Barros, Ana Tanevska, Francisco Cruz, and 1 more author
    In 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2020
  10. Performance Improvement of Path Planning algorithms with Deep Learning Encoder Model
    Janderson Ferreira, Agostinho AF Júnior, Yves M Galvão, and 3 more authors
    In 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2020
  11. Analysis of Social Robotic Navigation approaches: CNN Encoder and Incremental Learning as an alternative to Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Janderson Ferreira, Agostinho AF Júnior, Letı́cia Castro, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07965, 2020
  12. The facechannels: Strike of the sequences for the affwild 2 challenge
    Pablo Barros, and Alessandra Sciutti
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01557, 2020
  13. Sensing the partner: Toward effective robot tutoring in motor skill learning
    Giulia Belgiovine, Francesco Rea, Pablo Barros, and 2 more authors
    In Social Robotics: 12th International Conference, ICSR 2020, Golden, CO, USA, November 14–18, 2020, Proceedings 12, 2020
  14. Analysis of Professional Skills Using Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map
    Ricardo Almeida, Bruno Fernandes, and Pablo Barros
    In 2020 IEEE Congreso Bienal de Argentina (ARGENCON), 2020
  15. Multimodal Integration for Empathy Recognition
    Nikoletta Xirakia, Tayfun Alpay, Pablo Barros, and 1 more author
    Universität Hamburg, 2020
  16. Affect-driven modelling of robot personality for collaborative human-robot interactions
    Nikhil Churamani, Pablo Barros, Hatice Gunes, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.07221, 2020

2019

  1. Towards real-time ball localization using cnns
    Daniel Speck, Marc Bestmann, and Pablo Barros
    In RoboCup 2018: Robot World Cup XXII 22, 2019
  2. A personalized affective memory neural model for improving emotion recognition
    Pablo Barros, German I Parisi, and Stefan Wermter
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12632, 2019
  3. A personalized affective memory model for improving emotion recognition
    Pablo Barros, German Parisi, and Stefan Wermter
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019
  4. A Neurorobotic Experiment for Crossmodal Conflict Resolution
    German Parisi, Pablo Barros, Di Fu, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2019
  5. Facial expression editing with continuous emotion labels
    Alexandra Lindt, Pablo Barros, Henrique Siqueira, and 1 more author
    In 2019 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2019), 2019
  6. Towards Learning How to Properly Play UNO with the iCub Robot
    Pablo Barros, Stefan Wermter, and Alessandra Sciutti
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00744, 2019
  7. The omg-empathy dataset: Evaluating the impact of affective behavior in storytelling
    Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Angelica Lim, and 1 more author
    In 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2019
  8. The conditional boundary equilibrium generative adversarial network and its application to facial attributes
    Ahmed Marzouk, Pablo Barros, Manfred Eppe, and 1 more author
    In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2019
  9. Expectation learning for stimulus prediction across modalities improves unisensory classification
    Pablo Barros, Manfred Eppe, German I Parisi, and 2 more authors
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019
  10. Exploring Low-level and High-level Transfer Learning for Multi-task Facial Recognition with a Semi-supervised Neural Network
    Pablo Barros, Erik Fliesswasser, Matthias Kerzel, and 1 more author
    In 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
  11. What can computational models learn from human selective attention? A review from an audiovisual crossmodal perspective
    Di Fu, Cornelius Weber, Guochun Yang, and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05654, 2019
  12. The interplay of knowledge representation with various fields of artificial intelligence in medicine
    Laszlo Balkanyi, and Ronald Cornet
    Yearbook of medical informatics, 2019

2018

  1. A neurorobotic experiment for crossmodal conflict resolution in complex environments
    German I Parisi, Pablo Barros, Di Fu, and 4 more authors
    In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018
  2. The OMG-emotion behavior dataset
    Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Egor Lakomkin, and 3 more authors
    In 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018
  3. Towards Modeling the Interaction of Spatial-Associative Neural Network Representations for Multisensory Perception
    German I Parisi, Jonathan Tong, Pablo Barros, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05222, 2018
  4. Learning empathy-driven emotion expressions using affective modulations
    Nikhil Churamani, Pablo Barros, Erik Strahl, and 1 more author
    In 2018 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), 2018
  5. An Affective Robot Companion for Assisting the Elderly in a Cognitive Game Scenario
    Nikhil Churamani, Alexander Sutherland, and Pablo Barros
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09825, 2018
  6. A deep neural model of emotion appraisal
    Pablo Barros, Emilia Barakova, and Stefan Wermter
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.00252, 2018
  7. Semi-supervised model for emotion recognition in speech
    Ingryd Pereira, Diego Santos, Alexandre Maciel, and 1 more author
    In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning–ICANN 2018: 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Rhodes, Greece, October 4-7, 2018, Proceedings, Part I 27, 2018
  8. De-noise-GAN: De-noising Images to Improve RoboCup Soccer Ball Detection
    Daniel Speck, Pablo Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning–ICANN 2018: 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Rhodes, Greece, October 4-7, 2018, Proceedings, Part III 27, 2018
  9. Expectation learning and crossmodal modulation with a deep adversarial network
    Pablo Barros, German I Parisi, Di Fu, and 2 more authors
    In 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018
  10. Assessing the contribution of semantic congruency to multisensory integration and conflict resolution
    Di Fu, Pablo Barros, German I Parisi, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06748, 2018
  11. An ensemble with shared representations based on convolutional networks for continually learning facial expressions
    Henrique Siqueira, Pablo Barros, Sven Magg, and 1 more author
    In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018
  12. Disambiguating affective stimulus associations for robot perception and dialogue
    Henrique Siqueira, Alexander Sutherland, Pablo Barros, and 3 more authors
    In 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2018
  13. Epilepsy Surgery in Antibody-Associated Autoimmune Encephalitis and Epilepsies: Review of Literature
    Aimee F Luat
    Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy, 2018

2017

  1. Ball localization for robocup soccer using convolutional neural networks
    Daniel Speck, Pablo Barros, Cornelius Weber, and 1 more author
    In RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX 20, 2017
  2. Emotion-modulated attention improves expression recognition: A deep learning model
    Pablo Barros, German I Parisi, Cornelius Weber, and 1 more author
    Neurocomputing, 2017
  3. A Deep Neural Model for Emotion-Driven Multimodal Attention
    German Ignacio Parisi, Pablo Barros, Haiyan Wu, and 4 more authors
    In 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2017
  4. A dynamic gesture recognition and prediction system using the convexity approach
    Pablo Barros, Nestor T Maciel-Junior, Bruno JT Fernandes, and 2 more authors
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2017
  5. An analysis of convolutional long short-term memory recurrent neural networks for gesture recognition
    Eleni Tsironi, Pablo Barros, Cornelius Weber, and 1 more author
    Neurocomputing, 2017
  6. Teaching emotion expressions to a human companion robot using deep neural architectures
    Nikhil Churamani, Matthias Kerzel, Erik Strahl, and 2 more authors
    In 2017 international joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), 2017
  7. A self-organizing model for affective memory
    Pablo Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2017
  8. Emotion recognition from body expressions with a neural network architecture
    Nourhan Elfaramawy, Pablo Barros, German I Parisi, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on human agent interaction, 2017
  9. Expectation Learning for Adaptive Crossmodal Stimuli Association
    Pablo Barros, German I. Pasisi, Di Fu, and 2 more authors
    In EUCog Meeting, 2017
  10. Extreme learning machine autoencoder for data augmentation
    Janderson Ferreira, Milla Ferro, Bruno Fernandes, and 3 more authors
    In 2017 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI), 2017
  11. Human action recognition with 3D convolutional neural network
    Tiago Lima, Bruno Fernandes, and Pablo Barros
    In 2017 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI), 2017
  12. A computational model of crossmodal processing for conflict resolution
    German I Parisi, Pablo Barros, Matthias Kerzel, and 5 more authors
    In 2017 joint ieee international conference on development and learning and epigenetic robotics (icdl-epirob), 2017

2016

  1. Developing crossmodal expression recognition based on a deep neural model
    Pablo Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    Adaptive behavior, 2016
  2. Understanding how deep neural networks learn face expressions
    Nima Mousavi, Henrique Siqueira, Pablo Barros, and 2 more authors
    In 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2016
  3. Gesture Recognition with a Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network.
    Eleni Tsironi, Pablo VA Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In ESANN, 2016
  4. Learning auditory neural representations for emotion recognition
    Pablo Barros, Cornelius Weber, and Stefan Wermter
    In 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2016
  5. The effects of regularization on learning facial expressions with convolutional neural networks
    Tobias Hinz, Pablo Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning–ICANN 2016: 25th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Barcelona, Spain, September 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, Part II 25, 2016
  6. Modeling affection mechanisms using deep and self-organizing neural networks
    Pablo Vinicius Barros
    Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, 2016

2015

  1. Multimodal emotional state recognition using sequence-dependent deep hierarchical features
    Pablo Barros, Doreen Jirak, Cornelius Weber, and 1 more author
    Neural Networks, 2015
  2. Emotional expression recognition with a cross-channel convolutional neural network for human-robot interaction
    Pablo Barros, Cornelius Weber, and Stefan Wermter
    In 2015 IEEE-RAS 15th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2015
  3. Face expression recognition with a 2-channel convolutional neural network
    Dennis Hamester, Pablo Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In 2015 international joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), 2015
  4. Learning objects from RGB-D sensors using point cloud-based neural networks.
    Marcelo Borghetti Soares, Pablo VA Barros, German Ignacio Parisi, and 1 more author
    In ESANN, 2015
  5. Dynamic gesture recognition using Echo State Networks.
    Doreen Jirak, Pablo VA Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In ESANN, 2015
  6. Recognizing complex mental states with deep hierarchical features for Human-Robot Interaction
    Pablo Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
  7. Humanoidly speaking–learning about the world and language with a humanoid friendly robot
    Xavier Hinaut, Johannes Twiefel, M Borghetti Soares, and 3 more authors
    In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Video competition, 2015
  8. Humanoidly Speaking-How the Nao humanoid robot can learn the name of objects and interact with them through common speech
    Xavier Hinaut, Johannes Twiefel, Marcelo Borghetti Soares, and 3 more authors
    In International Joint Conference on Artificial Neural Networks–IJCAI, Video Competition, 2015

2014

  1. Real-time gesture recognition using a humanoid robot with a deep neural architecture
    Pablo Barros, German I Parisi, Doreen Jirak, and 1 more author
    In 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2014
  2. A multichannel convolutional neural network for hand posture recognition
    Pablo Barros, Sven Magg, Cornelius Weber, and 1 more author
    In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning–ICANN 2014: 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Hamburg, Germany, September 15-19, 2014. Proceedings 24, 2014
  3. FINGeR: Framework for interactive neural-based gesture recognition.
    German Ignacio Parisi, Pablo VA Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    In ESANN, 2014
  4. Learning objects from rgb-d sensors for cleaning tasks using a team of cooperative humanoid robots
    Marcelo Borghetti Soares, Pablo Barros, and Stefan Wermter
    Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems, 2014
  5. Real-time gesture recognition using a humanoid robot with a deep neural architecture. In 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
    Pablo Barros, German I Parisi, Doreen Jirak, and 1 more author
    2014

2013

  1. Convexity local contour sequences for gesture recognition
    Pablo VA Barros, Nestor TM Junior, Juvenal MM Bisneto, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2013
  2. An effective dynamic gesture recognition system based on the feature vector reduction for SURF and LCS
    Pablo VA Barros, Nestor TM Júnior, Juvenal MM Bisneto, and 3 more authors
    In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning–ICANN 2013: 23rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks Sofia, Bulgaria, September 10-13, 2013. Proceedings 23, 2013
  3. A dynamic gesture prediction system based on the clcs feature extraction
    Nestor TM Júnior, Pablo VA Barros, Bruno JT Fernandes, and 2 more authors
    In 2013 BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence and 11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2013

2012

  1. Desenvolvendo soluções com interface baseada em voz
    Alexandre Maciel, Rodrigo Lins, Pablo Barros, and 1 more author
    Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2012
  2. Tutoriais do XI Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais
    Plinio Thomaz Aquino Junior, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Elizabete Munzlinger, and 8 more authors
    2012