Michal Muszynski

Address

Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory
Computer Science Department
University of Geneva
7 route de Drize, Battelle, Building A
CH-1227 Carouge
Office: #226, 1st Floor Battelle A
E-mail: Michal.Muszynski@unige.ch
Phone:+41 22 37 90182

Function

I am now a post-doctoral research fellow at the Neurology and Imaging of Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences within the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Biography

I received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 2018. My thesis is available on the UNIGE archive.

Research

His research interests include Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Affective Computing, Human Media Interaction, Human Computer Interaction and Affective Neuroscience.

Teaching

  • Introduction à la programmation des algorithmes
  • Information Retrieval

Publications

Journal papers

  • M. Muszynski, L. Tian, C. Lai, J. D. Moore, T. Kostoulas, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, G. Chanel, “Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences From Multimodal Information”, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (in press).
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, G. Chanel, "Aesthetic Highlight Detection in Movies Based on Synchronization of Spectators' Reactions", ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 14.3 (2018): 68.
  • T. Kostoulas, G. Chanel, M. Muszynski, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, "Films, affective computing and aesthetic experience: Identifying emotional and aesthetic highlights from multimodal signals in a social setting", Frontiers in ICT 4 (2017): 11.

International conferences with proceedings

  • L. Tian, M. Muszynski, C. Lai, J. D. Moore, T. Kostoulas, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, G. Chanel, "Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences: Are Induced and Perceived Emotions the Same?" (Best Paper Nominee) 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 23-26 October 2017, San Antonio, USA.
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, G. Chanel, “Synchronization among groups of spectators for highlight detection in movies” (Best Paper Nominee) ACM MULTIMEDIA 2016, 15-19 October 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, G. Chanel, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, “Spectators’ synchronization detection based on manifold representation of physiological signals: application to movie highlights detection” 17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 9-13 November 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • T. Kostoulas, G. Chanel, M. Muszynski, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, “Dynamic time warping of multimodal signals for detecting highlights in movies” 17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction: First International Workshop on Modeling INTEPERsonal SynchrONy, 13 November 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • T. Kostoulas, G. Chanel, M. Muszynski, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, “Identifying aesthetic highlights in movies from clustering of physiological and behavioral signals” 7th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, 26-29 May 2015, Costa Navarino, Messinia, Greece.

Other Conferences

  • M. Muszynski, L. Vilaclara, P. Lombardo, D. Van De Ville, P. Vuilleumier "Charting Emotion Components and Dynamics in the Human Brain While Watching Movies", BBL/CIMB/CB Research Day, 27 May 2019, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (poster).
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, G. Chanel " Film Aesthetic Experience", Annual Research Forum, 7-8 February 2019, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (poster).
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, G. Chanel " Film, Aesthetics and Emotions - interdisciplinary studies", Annual Research Forum, 7 February 2018, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (poster).
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, G. Chanel "Evaluation of Synchronization Measures for Aesthetic Highlight Detection in Movies", NCCR Affective Sciences ‐ International Conference on Emotions, 18-19 May 2017, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (poster).
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, G. Chanel, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, " Spectators' synchronization detection based on physiological signals: application to movie highlights detection", Annual Research Forum, 3-4 March 2016, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (the same poster).
  • M. Muszynski, T. Kostoulas, G. Chanel, P. Lombardo, T. Pun, "Spectators' synchronization detection based on manifold representation of physiological signals: application to movie highlights detection", BBL/CIBM Research day, 28 September 2015, Brain-and-Behavior Laboratory, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Also at Inauguration of the Swiss Doctoral School in Affective Sciences, 15 September 2015, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (poster).
  • T. Kostoulas, G. Chanel, M. Muszynski, P. Lombardo and T. Pun, "Identifying aesthetic highlights in movies from physiological and behavioral synchronization", International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) Conference 2015, 7-11 July 2015, Geneva, Switzerland (abstract, poster).

Invited Presentations

  • "Recognition of Movie Audiences' Induced Emotions Using Multimodal Machine Learning Models", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, 3 November 2017, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • "How do we feel about what we see?: Multimodal machine learning based models for recognizing induced emotions of movie audiences", Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, 2 November 2017, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • "Induced and Perceived Emotions in Film Viewing", Interdisciplinary Workshop on Literature, Film and the Emotions, University of Geneva, 19 July 2017, Geneva, Switzerland.

A list of my publications can be also found at my google scholar profile.