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# Björn Wolfgang Schuller

Björn Wolfgang Schuller has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2026, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Xiutian Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/), [Yue Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-zhang/).

2 papers in our library · 2016–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043060302) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6478-8699) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23063261) · [**h-index 107**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043060302) · [1,583 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043060302) · [58,017 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043060302&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-wolfgang-schuller/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 63 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-wolfgang-schuller/cited-by/) · [17 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9447](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/95/#star-9447)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Bj%C3%B6rn+Wolfgang+Schuller) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Bj%C3%B6rn+Wolfgang+Schuller) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Bj%C3%B6rn+Wolfgang+Schuller) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Bj%C3%B6rn+Wolfgang+Schuller)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 2011–2026 · 745 papersEmployment · Department of Computing*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) · [🎓**Technical University of Munich** Munich · Germany 1994–2026 · 461 papersEducation 1994–1999 · Diploma in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Electrical, Electronics, and Computer EngineeringEducation 1999–2006 · PhD, Electrical, Electronics, and Computer EngineeringEducation 2006–2012 · Habilitation, Electrical, Electronics, and Computer EngineeringEmployment since 2023 · Full Professor, Chair of Health Informatics*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technical-university-of-munich/) · [🎓**University of Augsburg** Augsburg · Germany 2013–2026 · 450 papersEmployment 2017–2023 · Full Professor and Chair, Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-augsburg/) · [🎓**Munich Center for Machine Learning** Munich · Germany 2024–2026 · 20 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/munich-center-for-machine-learning/) · [🏥**TUM Klinikum** Munich · Germany 2022–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/tum-klinikum/) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🎓**University of Passau** Passau · Germany 2013–2022 · 128 papersEmployment 2014–2017 · Full Professor, Chair of Complex & Intelligent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-passau/) · [🔬**Joanneum Research** Graz · Austria 2012–2018 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/049bdss47) · [🎓**Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers** Piscataway · United States 2013–2023 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/01n002310) · [🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 2013–2018 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 29 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/)

🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-wolfgang-schuller/year/2026/)

### 2010s

[**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-wolfgang-schuller/year/2016/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coutinho-2016-assessing-prosody-non-native-speakers/)** *(2016 · 14 citations)* The paper addresses automatic rating of how natural the prosody (melody and rhythm) of non-native English speech sounds.
2. **[Discovering and Causally Validating Emotion-Sensitive Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-discovering-causally-validating-emotion-sensitive/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether large audio-language models (LALMs) store emotion information in small, identifiable groups of neurons, or whether it is spread diffusely across the network.

## All works

19 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[The INTERSPEECH 2013 computational paralinguistics challenge: social signals, conflict, emotion, autism ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2013-56) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Björn Wolfgang Schuller et al.*2013 · 754 citations*
2. **[On-line emotion recognition in a 3-D activation-valence-time continuum using acoustic and linguistic cues ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-009-0032-6) Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces · no summary yet**Florian Eyben et al.*2009 · 140 citations*
3. **[Bidirectional LSTM Networks for Context-Sensitive Keyword Detection in a Cognitive Virtual Agent Framework ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-010-9041-8) Cognitive Computation · no summary yet**Martin Wöllmer et al.*2010 · 82 citations*
4. **[A Hierarchical Attention Network-Based Approach for Depression Detection from Transcribed Clinical Interviews ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-2036) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Adria Mallol-Ragolta et al.*2019 · 78 citations*
5. **[Attention-Enhanced Connectionist Temporal Classification for Discrete Speech Emotion Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-1649) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Ziping Zhao et al.*2019 · 71 citations*
6. **[Domain Invariant Feature Learning for Speaker-Independent Speech Emotion Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/taslp.2022.3178232) IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing · no summary yet**Cheng Lu et al.*2022 · 67 citations*
7. **[Robust discriminative keyword spotting for emotionally colored spontaneous speech using bidirectional LSTM networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp.2009.4960492) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing · no summary yet**Martin Wöllmer et al.*2009 · 67 citations*
8. **[The INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Styrian Dialects, Continuous Sleepiness, Baby Sounds & Orca Activity ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-1122) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Björn Wolfgang Schuller et al.*2019 · 64 citations*
9. **[DEMoS: an Italian emotional speech corpus ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09450-y) Language Resources and Evaluation · no summary yet**Emilia Parada‐Cabaleiro et al.*2019 · 63 citations*
10. **[Hybrid Network Feature Extraction for Depression Assessment from Speech ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2020-2396) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Ziping Zhao et al.*2020 · 56 citations*
11. **[From speech to letters - using a novel neural network architecture for grapheme based ASR ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/asru.2009.5373257) IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) · no summary yet**Florian Eyben et al.*2009 · 44 citations*
12. **[A Tandem BLSTM-DBN Architecture for Keyword Spotting with Enhanced Context Modeling ↗](https://openalex.org/W2748309409) no summary yet**Martin Wöllmer et al.*2009 · 22 citations*
13. **[CINEMO –- A French Spoken Language Resource for Complex Emotions: Facts and Baselines ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L10-1334/) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) · no summary yet**Björn Schuller et al.*2010 · 15 citations*
14. **[Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coutinho-2016-assessing-prosody-non-native-speakers/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Eduardo Coutinho, Florian Hönig, Yue Zhang, et al.*2016 · 14 citations*
15. **[Improving Keyword Spotting with a Tandem BLSTM-DBN Architecture ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11509-7_9) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Martin Wöllmer et al.*2010 · 11 citations*
16. **[A Broadcast News Corpus for Evaluation and Tuning of German LVCSR Systems ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4616) arXiv:1412.4616 · no summary yet**Felix Weninger et al.*2014 · 6 citations*
17. **[Discovering and Causally Validating Emotion-Sensitive Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-discovering-causally-validating-emotion-sensitive/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiutian Zhao, Björn Schuller, Berrak Sisman*2026 · 1 citation*
18. **[Detecting COPD Through Speech Analysis: A Dataset of Danish Speech and Machine Learning Approach ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02354) arXiv:2508.02354 · no summary yet**Cuno Sankey-Olsen et al.*2025 · 1 citation*
19. **[A Pilot Study on Curator-Guided Multilingual Art Description for Blind and Low-Vision Audiences with Small Vision-Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31080) arXiv:2605.31080 · no summary yet**Iosif Tsangko; Andreas Triantafyllopoulos; George Margetis; Ioana Crihana;, Bjorn W. Schuller*2026*

## Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Xiutian Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/)
- [Yue Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-zhang/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- Interspeech (USB) ×5
- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/)
- [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2016/)
- Cognitive Computation
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing
- IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
- Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
- Language Resources and Evaluation
- Lecture notes in computer science
- Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 63 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-wolfgang-schuller/cited-by/).

Updated 31 October 2026