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Nuria Oliver Telefónica I+D, S.A.U. Scientific Director Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling Torre Telefonica, Diagonal 00, Barcelona, Spain E-mail: Phone: +34 630 726 085Biography
Nuria Oliver is currently the Scientific Director for the Multimedia and Data Mining & User Modeling Research Teams in Telefonica Research (Barcelona, Spain). She received the BSc (honors) and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the ETSIT at the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 1992 and 1994 respectively. She received her PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in June 2000. From July 2000 until November 2007, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. At the end of 2007, she returned to Spain to create and lead the Multimedia Scientific Team at Telefonica Research in Barcelona. Since March 2009, she is also the acting Scientific Director for the Data Mining & User Modeling Team in Telefonica Research. It is an exciting opportunity to do research in her own country.
Her research interests include mobile computing, multimedia data analysis, search and retrieval, smart environments, context awareness, statistical machine learning and data mining, artificial intelligence, health monitoring, social network analysis, computational social sciencies, and human computer interaction. She is currently working on the previous disciplines to build human-centric intelligent systems.
Nuria has written over 70 papers in international conferences, journals and book chapters. Her work has been widely recognized by the scientific community with over 2800 citations. Nuria has over 30 patent applications and granted patents. She is also in the program committee and a reviewer of the top conferences in her research areas (IJCAI, IUI, UMAP, ACM Multimedia, ICMI-MLMI, Interaccion, PervasiveHealth, MIR, LoCA, MMM, CVPR, Ubicomp, MobileHCI, ICCV, AAAI, etc...). She was program co-chair of IUI 2009 and of MIR 2010.
She believes in the power of technology to empower and increase the quality of life of people. She has received a number of awards, including MIT’s ‘TR100 Young Innovators Award’ (2004) and the First Spanish Award of EECS graduates (1994). Besides her scientific publications, she is very interested in making science available to the general public. She has been a technology writer for Tecno2000 magazine and ‘El Pais’ newspapers, among others. Her work has been featured on multiple newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations both in Spain and the US. She has been named one of the '100 leaders of the future ' by Capital Magazine (May 2009) and one of the 'Generation XXI: 40 Spanish youngsters that will make news in the Third Millenium ' by EL PAIS (2000).
She is proficient in multiple foreign languages and she studied classical ballet for 13 years. Her hobbies include traveling, cinema, art, classical music, yoga, Formula Dodge racing, dance and swimming Recent Publications | | | |
2010:
- "User modeling for Telecommunication Applications: Experiences and Practical Implications",
Hohwald, H., Frias-Martinez, E. and Oliver, N. (2010) Proceedings of ACM Int. Conf. on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP'2010), Hawaii, June 2010
- "Measuring the Collective Potential of Populations from Dynamic Social Interaction Data",
Cebrian, M., Lahiri, M., Oliver, N. and Pentland, S. (2010) Proceedings of IEEE THEMES workshop on Signal and Information Processing for Social Networks, Dallas, TX, March 2010 Also published in a special issue in JSTSP on signal and information processing for social networks
- "The Map Trap? An Evaluation of Map versus Text-based Interfaces for Location-based Mobile Search Services",
Church, K., Neumann, J.,Cherubini, M. and Oliver, N. (2010), Proceedings of ACM Int. Conf. on World Wide Web (ACM WWW'10), Raleigh, NC, April 2010
- "Social Tagging Revamped: Supporting the Users' Need of Self-promotion through Persuasive Techniques",
Cherubini, M., Gutierrez, A., Oliveira, R. and Oliver, N. (2010), Proceedings ACM Int. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI'10), Atlanta, US, April 2010 Best paper award nominee
- "SocialSearchBrowswer: A Novel Mobile Search and Information Discovery Tool",
Church, K., Neumann, J., Cherubini, M. and Oliver, N. (2010), Proceedings ACM Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI'10), Hong Kong, China, February 2010
2009:
- "Understanding Near-Duplicate Videos: A User-Centric Approach",
Cherubini, M., Oliveira, R. and Oliver, N. (2009), Proceedings ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia (ACM MM'09), Beijing, China, October 2009 Best paper award nominee
- "The Role of Tags and Image Aesthetics in Social Image Search"
Obrador, P., De Oliveira, R. and Oliver, N. (2009) Proc. ACM SIGMM Workshop on Social Media (WSM'09) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Beijing, China, October 2009
- "Multimodal Video Copy Detection Applied to Social Media"
Anguera, X., Obrador, P. and Oliver, N. (2009) Proc. ACM SIGMM Workshop on Social Media (WSM'09) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Beijing, China, October 2009
- "Rate it Again: Increasing Recommendation Accuracy by User Re-rating",
Amatriain, X., Pujol, J.M., Tintarev, N. and Oliver, N.(2009), Proc. ACM Int. Conf. on Recommender Systems (RecSys'09), New York City, USA, October 2009
- "Text versus Speech: A Comparison of Tagging Input Modalities for Camera Phones",
Cherubini, M., Anguera, X., Oliver, N. and Oliveira, R., Proc. Int. Conf. on Mobile HCI (MobileHCI'09), Bonn, Germany, September 2009 Best paper award nominee
- "Human Perception of Near-Duplicate Videos"
Oliveira, R., Cherubini, M. and Oliver, N. Proceedings of Int. Conf. Human-Computer Interaction (Interact'09), Uppsala, Sweden, August 2009
- "How did you get that? A Traceable Word-of-Mouth Algorithm",
Cebrian, M., Frias-Martinez, E., Hohwald, H. and Oliver, N. (2009) Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Social Computing (SocialCom'09), Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN'09), Vancouver, Canada, August 2009
- "Inferring Unobservable Inter-Community Links in Large Social Networks",
Hohwald, H., Cebrian, M., Canales, A., Lara, R. and Oliver, N. (2009), Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Social Computing (SocialCom'09), Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN'09), Vancouver, Canada, August 2009
- "The Wisdom of the Few: A Collaborative Filtering Approach Based on Expert Opinions from the Web" ,
Amatriain, X., Lathia, N., Pujol, J.M., Hwak, H. and Oliver, N. (2009), Proceedings Int. Conf. on Information Retrieval (SIGIR'09), Boston, July 19-23, 2009
- "Sensing and Predicting the Pulse of the City through Shared Bicycling" ,
Froehlich, J. and Neumann, J. and Oliver, N. (2009), Proceedings Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'09), Pasadena, California, USA, July 11-17, 2009s
- "I Like It, I Like It Not" ,
Amatriain, X., Pujol, J.M. and Oliver, N. (2009), Proceedings Int. Conf. on User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia (UMAP'09), Trento, Italy, June 2009
- "Shopping uncertainties in a mobile and social context"
Cherubini, M., de Oliveira, R. and Oliver, N. (2009) Proceedings of Int. Conf. Pervasive 2009, Late breaking results, Nara, Japan, 2009
- "Visual Interfaces for Improved Mobile Search"
Church, K. and Smyth, B. , and Oliver, N. (2009) Proceedings International Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'09). Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW) , Sanibel Island, FL, January 2009
2008:
- "Measuring the Pulse of the City through Shared Bicycle Programs"
Froehlich, J., Neumann, J., and Oliver, N. International Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems - UrbanSense08, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, November 4, 2008
- "Multimodal Photo Annotation and Retrieval on a Mobile Phone"
Anguera, X., Xu, J. and Oliver, N. Proceedings of Int. Conf. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR'08) 2008 Conference. Oct 2008
- "Mobile and Multimodal Personal Image Retrieval: A User Study"
Anguera, X., Oliver, N. and Cherubini, M. Proceedings of Int. Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval (MobIR'08), SIGIR 2008 Conference. July 2008
- "MAMI: Multimodal Annotations on a Camera Phone"
Anguera, X. and Oliver, N. Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Mobile HCI (MobileHCI'08), Sept 2008
- "TripleBeat: Enhancing Exercise Performance with Persuasion"
Oliveira, R. and Oliver, N. Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Mobile HCI (MobileHCI'08), Sept 2008
- "RelAltTab: Assisting Users in Switching Windows"
Oliver, N., Czerwinski, M., Smith, G. and Roomp, K. Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'08), Jan 2008
2007:
- "Health-OS: A Position Paper"
Kirovski, D., Oliver, N., Sinclair, M. and Tan, D.S. Proceedings of First Int. Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments (HealthNet'07), 2007
2006:
- "Enhancing Exercise Performance through Real-time Physiological Monitoring and Music: A User Study"
Oliver, N. and Kreger-Stickles, L. Proceedings of Pervasive Health 2006. Innsbruck, Austria, Nov 2006
- "PAPA: Physiology and Purpose-Aware Automatic Playlist Generation"
Oliver, N. and Kreger-Stickles, L. Proceedings of ISMIR 2006. Victoria, Canada, Oct 2006
- "MPTrain: A Music and Physiology-based Personal Trainer on your Mobile Phone"
Oliver, N. and Flores-Mangas, F. Proceedings of Int. MobileHCI'06. Helsinki, Iceland, Sept 2006. Best paper award nominee
- "HealthGear: A Real-Time Wearable System for Monitoring and Analyzing Physiological Signals"
Oliver, N. and Flores-Mangas, F. Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06). MIT. Boston. USA. April 2006.
- "SWISH:Semantic Analysis of Window Titles and Switching History"
Oliver, N., Smith, G., Thakkar, C. and Surendran, A.C. Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'06). Sydney. Australia. Jan 2006.
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2003:
2002 and older:
- "Layered Representations for Learning and Inferring Office Activity from Multiple Sensory Channels"
Oliver, N., Horvitz, E. and Garg, A. Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'02). Pittsburgh, PA. October 2002.
- "MIHMMs: Mutual Information Hidden Markov Models"
Oliver, N. and Garg, A. Proceed. of International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML'2002, Sydney, Australia, July 2002 Also presented at the Snowbird 2002 Learning Workshop, Snowbird (UT), April 2002
- "Curve Analogies"
Hertzmann, A., Oliver, N., Seitz, S. and Curless, B. Proceed. of Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Italy, June 2002 Technical sketch at Siggraph 2002
- "Hierarchical Representations for Inferring Office Activities from Multiple Sensory Channels"
Oliver, N., Garg, A. and Horvitz, E. Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR'01. Workshop on 'Cues in Communication'. Kauai, Hawaii. Dec 01
- "Image Analogies" full res version (35MB)
Hertzman, A., Jacobs, C., Oliver, N., Curless, B. and Salesin, D. Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH'01. Los Angeles. August 01.
- "Graphical Models for Driver Behavior Recognition in a SmartCar"
Oliver, N., and Pentland, A. Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conference on Intelligent Vehicles 2000 Detroit. Michigan. October 00.
- "Driver Behavior Recognition and Prediction in a SmartCar"
Oliver, N., and Pentland, A. Proceedings of SPIE Aerosense2000 'Enhanced and Synthetic Vision' Orlando. Florida. April 00.
- "A Bayesian Synthetic Agent System for Modeling Human Interactions",
Oliver, N., Rosario, B. and Pentland, A. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Autonomous Agents AA99. Seattle. Washington. May 99.
- "A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions",
Oliver, N., Rosario, B. and Pentland, A. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Vision Systems ICVS99. Gran Canaria. Spain. January 99.
- "DyPERS: Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System",
Schiele, B., Oliver, N., Jebara, T. and Pentland, A. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Vision Systems ICVS99. Gran Canaria. Spain. January 99.
- "Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions" ,
Oliver, N., Rosario, B. and Pentland, A. Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Neural Information and Processing Systems NIPS98. Denver. Colorado. Nov.-Dec. 98.
- "Graphical Models for Recognizing Human Interactions" Long version appears in PAMI
- "A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions",
Oliver, N., Rosario, B. and Pentland, A. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision CVPR98 (Workshop on Interpretation of Visual Motion). Santa Barbara, CA, June 98.
- "Statistical Models of Human Behavior",
Oliver, N. Proposal for phD General Exams. Media Laboratory, MIT. Sept 97
- "3D Modeling of Human Lip Motion",
Basu, B., Oliver, N. and Pentland, A.. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV98, Bombay, India).
- "Responsive Portraits",
Sparacino, F., Oliver, N., Davenport, G. and Pentland, A. International Symposium on Electronic Art, (ISEA97, Chicago, USA).
- "LAFTER:A Real-time Lips and Face Tracker with Facial Expression Recognition",
Oliver, N., Pentland, A. and Berard, F. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision (CVPR97, S.Juan, Puerto Rico) and Pattern Recognition Pattern Recognition version (long) Winner of the Special Mention Award from the Pattern Recognition Society as an outstanding publication. Nov 2000.
- "Coupled hidden Markov models for complex action recognition",
Brand, M., Oliver, N. and Pentland, A. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR97, S.Juan, Puerto Rico).
- "A Computer Vision System for Car Detection and Tracking",
Oliver, N., M.S. Thesis in Electrical Engineering (Computer Vision group), ETSIT in Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Sept. 94
- "Data Mining Methods for Recommender Systems",
Amatriain, X., Jaimes, A., Oliver, N. and Pujol, J.M. (2009). In Recommender Systems Handbook. Kantor, Ricci, Rokach, Shapira (Eds). Springer 2009 (In Press)
- "Towards Wearable Physiological Monitoring on a Mobile Phone"
Oliver, N., Flores-Mangas, F. and de Oliveira, R. In Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications (ISBN: 978-1-60566-332-6) IGI Global
- "HealthGear: Automatic Sleep Apnea Detection and Monitoring with a Mobile Phone"
Oliver, N. and Flores-Mangas, F. Journal of Communications, 2 (2), March 2007
- "Supporting Human Memory with a Personal Digital Lifetime Store. Chapter to appear in Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities"
Tan, D.S., Berry, E., Czerwinski, M., Bell, G., Gemmell, J., Hodges, S., Kapur, N., Meyers, B., Oliver, N. , Robertson, G., Wood, K. University of Washington Press. In Press at 2007
- "Selective Perception Policies for Guiding Sensing and Computation in Multimodal Systems: A Comparative Analysis"
Oliver, N. and Horvitz, E. Lectures Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag. Jan 2005
- "S-SEER: Selective Perception in a Multimodal Office Activity System"
Oliver, N. and Horvitz, E. Int. Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU 2005)
- "Layered Representations for Learning and Inferring Office Activity from Multiple Sensory Channels"
Oliver, N., Garg, A. and Horvitz, E. Int. Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU'04)
- "Sensory Augmented Computing: Wearing the Museum's Guide"
Schiele, B., Jebara, T. and Oliver, N. To Appear in IEEE Micro Journal
- "Natural Regularization in SVMs"
Oliver, N., Schoelkopf, B. and Smola, A. Appears in 'Advances in Large Margin Classifiers', MIT Press 2000
- "A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions"
Oliver, N., Rosario, B. and Pentland, A. Appears in PAMI Special Issue on Visual Surveillance and Monitoring, Aug 00
- "LAFTER: A real-time lips and face tracker with facial expression recognition"
Oliver, N., Berard, F. and Pentland, A. Appears in Pattern Recognition, vol. 33 (2000), n. 8 Winner of the Special Mention Award from the Pattern Recognition Society as an outstanding publication. Nov 2000. | View All Publications Professional Activities | | | |
Over the years, I have served in the Program Committee of a variety of conferences. Below are the most recent ones:
| View All Professional ActivitiesResearch Interest | | | | My research interests include mobile computing, multimedia data analysis, search and retrieval, smart environments, context awareness, statistical machine learning and data mining, artificial intelligence, health monitoring, social network analysis, computational social sciencies, and human computer interaction.
I am currently working on the previous disciplines to build human-centric intelligent systems. |
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