no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Md Kamrul Hasan, James Spann, Masum Hasan, Md Saiful Islam, Kurtis Haut, Rada Mihalcea, Ehsan Hoque
The combination of gestures, intonations, and textual content plays a key role in argument delivery.
no code implementations • 10 Dec 2023 • Md. Zarif Ul Alam, Md Saiful Islam, Ehsan Hoque, M Saifur Rahman
PULSAR is trained and evaluated on data collected from 382 participants (183 self-reported as PD patients).
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2023 • Md Saiful Islam, Sangwu Lee, Abdelrahman Abdelkader, Sooyong Park, Ehsan Hoque
We present a web-based framework to screen for Parkinson's disease (PD) by allowing users to perform neurological tests in their homes.
no code implementations • 6 Aug 2023 • Masum Hasan, Cengiz Ozel, Sammy Potter, Ehsan Hoque
In this demo paper, we introduce SAPIEN, a platform for high-fidelity virtual agents driven by large language models that can hold open domain conversations with users in 13 different languages, and display emotions through facial expressions and voice.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2023 • Tariq Adnan, Md Saiful Islam, Wasifur Rahman, Sangwu Lee, Sutapa Dey Tithi, Kazi Noshin, Imran Sarker, M Saifur Rahman, Ehsan Hoque
Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis remains challenging due to lacking a reliable biomarker and limited access to clinical care.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2023 • Md Saiful Islam, Wasifur Rahman, Abdelrahman Abdelkader, Phillip T. Yang, Sangwu Lee, Jamie L. Adams, Ruth B. Schneider, E. Ray Dorsey, Ehsan Hoque
We present an artificial intelligence system to remotely assess the motor performance of individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD).
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2023 • Md Kamrul Hasan, Md Saiful Islam, Sangwu Lee, Wasifur Rahman, Iftekhar Naim, Mohammed Ibrahim Khan, Ehsan Hoque
Our approach, TextMI, significantly reduces model complexity, adds interpretability to the model's decision, and can be applied for a diverse set of tasks while achieving superior (multimodal sarcasm detection) or near SOTA (multimodal sentiment analysis and multimodal humor detection) performance.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2022 • Adiba Mahbub Proma, Md Saiful Islam, Stela Ciko, Raiyan Abdul Baten, Ehsan Hoque
Climate change has increased the intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather events and natural disasters across the world.
no code implementations • 15 Jul 2022 • Benjamin Kane, Catherine Giugno, Lenhart Schubert, Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Ehsan Hoque
A schema-guided approach to dialogue management has been shown in recent work to be effective in creating robust customizable virtual agents capable of acting as friendly peers or task assistants.
1 code implementation • 15 Mar 2022 • Wasifur Rahman, Masum Hasan, Md Saiful Islam, Titilayo Olubajo, Jeet Thaker, Abdelrahman Abdelkader, Phillip Yang, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Ehsan Hoque
In this paper, we investigated whether we can 1) detect participants with ataxia-specific gait characteristics (risk-prediction), and 2) assess severity of ataxia from gait (severity-assessment) using computer vision.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2021 • Taylan K. Sen, Gazi Naven, Luke Gerstner, Daryl Bagley, Raiyan Abdul Baten, Wasifur Rahman, Kamrul Hasan, Kurtis G. Haut, Abdullah Mamun, Samiha Samrose, Anne Solbu, R. Eric Barnes, Mark G. Frank, Ehsan Hoque
In this work, we present a database of multimodal communication features extracted from debate speeches in the 2019 North American Universities Debate Championships (NAUDC).
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2021 • Taylan Sen, Kurtis Haut, Denis Lomakin, Ehsan Hoque
In order to rectify these shortcomings, we introduce the legal concept of mental trespass and use this concept as the basis for proposed regulation.
1 code implementation • 11 Dec 2020 • Ankani Chattoraj, Rupam Acharyya, Shouman Das, Md. Iftekhar Tanveer, Ehsan Hoque
Our work ties together a novel metric for public speeches in both verbal and non-verbal domain with the computational power of a neural network to design a fair prediction system for speakers.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2020 • Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Taylor Myers, Ellen Wagner, Harshil Ratnu, E. Ray Dorsey, Ehsan Hoque
One of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) is hypomimia or reduced facial expressions.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2020 • Boyu Zhang, Anis Zaman, Rupam Acharyya, Ehsan Hoque, Vincent Silenzio, Henry Kautz
Depressive disorder is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses among the global population.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2020 • Anis Zaman, Boyu Zhang, Ehsan Hoque, Vincent Silenzio, Henry Kautz
The goal of this study is to examine, among college students, the relationship between deteriorating mental health conditions and changes in user behaviors when engaging with Google Search and YouTube during COVID-19.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2020 • Wasifur Rahman, Sangwu Lee, Md. Saiful Islam, Victor Nikhil Antony, Harshil Ratnu, Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Abdullah Al Mamun, Ellen Wagner, Stella Jensen-Roberts, Max A. Little, Ray Dorsey, Ehsan Hoque
In this paper, we envision a web-based framework that can help anyone, anywhere around the world record a short speech task, and analyze the recorded data to screen for Parkinson's disease (PD).
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Wasifur Rahman, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Sangwu Lee, Amir Zadeh, Chengfeng Mao, Louis-Philippe Morency, Ehsan Hoque
It does so by generating a shift to internal representation of BERT and XLNet; a shift that is conditioned on the visual and acoustic modalities.