Silvan Mertes

69 papers A* 3A 5B 11C 1Journal 30Unranked 19
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
Intone your Talk: Voice Output Communication Aids with Individualized Voices for Augmented Communicators.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Silvan Mertes, Jan-Oliver Wülfing, Chi Tai Dang, Otto Grothe, Elisabeth André
2026 J jnl
Video Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures for Facial Expression Recognition.
CoRR
Lennart Eing, Cristina Luna Jiménez, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André
2025 J jnl
GANonymization: A GAN-Based Face Anonymization Framework for Preserving Emotional Expressions.
ACM Trans. Multim. Comput. Commun. Appl.
Fabio Hellmann, Silvan Mertes, Mohamed Benouis, Alexander Hustinx, Tzung-Chien Hsieh, Cristina Conati, Peter M. Krawitz, Elisabeth André
2025 — conf
MeLaX: Conversations with Generative AI in Socially Interactive Agents.
IUI Companion
Daksitha Senel Withanage Don, Thomas Kiderle, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Hannes Ritschel, Elisabeth André
2025 B conf
Multimodal Generation of Contextualized Jokes for a Real-Time Virtual Character.
IVA
Thomas Kiderle, Georgiana Cristina Dobre, Jauwairia Nasir, Carlos González Díaz, Hannes Ritschel, Stina Klein, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André
2025 J jnl
The ForDigitStress Dataset: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Automatic Stress Recognition.
IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput.
Alexander Heimerl, Pooja Prajod, Silvan Mertes, Tobias Baur, Matthias Kraus, Ailin Liu, Helen Risack, Nicolas Rohleder, Elisabeth André, Linda Becker
2025 B conf
VoiceX as a Design Tool for Virtual Agents' Voices.
IVA
Daksitha Withanage, Florian Lingenfelser, Johanna Magdalena Kuch, Otto Grothe, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André, Silvan Mertes
2025 B conf
Your Robot, My Voice: Enhancing Android Robot Likability through Personalization by Cloning the User's Voice.
RO-MAN
Johanna Magdalena Kuch, Marcel Heisler, Stina Klein, Silvan Mertes, Lennart Eing, Elisabeth André, Christian Becker-Asano
2025 J jnl
Zufriedenheit und Herausforderungen im akademischen Mittelbau.
Inform. Spektrum
Marc Ohm, Clarissa Sabrina Arlinghaus, Silvan Mertes
2024 — conf
A Machine Learning-Driven Interactive Training System for Extreme Vocal Techniques.
Audio Mostly Conference
Johanna Holzinger, Alexander Heimerl, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André, Silvan Mertes
2024 J jnl
Anonymization of Faces.
Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (dud)
Fabio Hellmann, Elisabeth André, Mohamed Benouis, Benedikt Buchner, Silvan Mertes
2024 B conf
Evaluating Gender Ambiguity, Novelty and Anthropomorphism in Humming and Talking Voices for Robots.
RO-MAN
Johanna Magdalena Kuch, Jauwairia Nasir, Silvan Mertes, Ruben Schlagowski, Christian Becker-Asano, Elisabeth André
2024 — conf
Exploring Physiology-Based Classification of Flow During Musical Improvisation in Mixed Reality.
DeLTA (1)
Ruben Schlagowski, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Yekta Said Can, Elisabeth André
2024 A* conf
Giving Robots a Voice: Human-in-the-Loop Voice Creation and open-ended Labeling.
CHI
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Kathrin Janowski, Katharina Weitz, Nori Jacoby, Elisabeth André
2024 J jnl
Giving Robots a Voice: Human-in-the-Loop Voice Creation and open-ended Labeling.
CoRR
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Kathrin Janowski, Katharina Weitz, Nori Jacoby, Elisabeth André
2024 — conf
More Than Noise: Assessing the Viscosity of Food Products Based on Sound Emission.
DeLTA (1)
Dominik Schiller, Silvan Mertes, Marcel Achzet, Fabio Hellmann, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André
2024 A* conf
Relevant Irrelevance: Generating Alterfactual Explanations for Image Classifiers.
IJCAI
Silvan Mertes, Tobias Huber, Christina Karle, Katharina Weitz, Ruben Schlagowski, Cristina Conati, Elisabeth André
2024 J jnl
Relevant Irrelevance: Generating Alterfactual Explanations for Image Classifiers.
CoRR
Silvan Mertes, Tobias Huber, Christina Karle, Katharina Weitz, Ruben Schlagowski, Cristina Conati, Elisabeth André
2024 B conf
The AffectToolbox: Affect Analysis for Everyone.
ACII
Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Michael Dietz, Elisabeth André, Florian Lingenfelser
2024 J jnl
The AffectToolbox: Affect Analysis for Everyone.
CoRR
Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Michael Dietz, Elisabeth André, Florian Lingenfelser
2024 J jnl
The STOIC2021 COVID-19 AI challenge: Applying reusable training methodologies to private data.
Medical Image Anal.
Luuk H. Boulogne, Julian Lorenz, Daniel Kienzle, Robin Schön, Katja Ludwig, Rainer Lienhart, Simon Jégou, Guang Li, Cong Chen, Qi Wang, Derik Shi, Mayug Maniparambil, Dominik Müller, Silvan Mertes, Niklas Schröter, Fabio Hellmann, Miriam Elia, Ine Dirks, Matías Nicolás Bossa, Abel Díaz Berenguer, Tanmoy Mukherjee, Jef Vandemeulebroucke, Hichem Sahli, Nikos Deligiannis, Panagiotis Gonidakis, Ngoc Dung Huynh, Imran Razzak, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Mario Verdicchio, Pasquale Borrelli, Marco Aiello, James A. Meakin, Alexander Lemm, Christoph Russ, Razvan Ionasec, Nikos Paragios, Bram van Ginneken, Marie-Pierre Revel
2024 J jnl
The feeling of being classified: raising empathy and awareness for AI bias through perspective-taking in VR.
Frontiers Virtual Real.
Ruben Schlagowski, Maurizio Volanti, Katharina Weitz, Silvan Mertes, Johanna Magdalena Kuch, Elisabeth André
2024 B conf
Towards Automated Annotation of Infant-Caregiver Engagement Phases with Multimodal Foundation Models.
ICMI
Daksitha Senel Withanage Don, Dominik Schiller, Tobias Hallmen, Silvan Mertes, Tobias Baur, Florian Lingenfelser, Mitho Müller, Lea Kaubisch, Corinna Reck, Elisabeth André
2024 J jnl
VoiceX: A Text-To-Speech Framework for Custom Voices.
CoRR
Silvan Mertes, Daksitha Withanage Don, Otto Grothe, Johanna Magdalena Kuch, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André
2024 — conf
XR Composition in the Wild: The Impact of User Environments on Creativity, UX and Flow during Music Production in Augmented Reality.
Audio Mostly Conference
Ruben Schlagowski, Silvan Mertes, Dariia Nazarenko, Alexander Dauber, Elisabeth André
2023 B conf
ASMRcade: Interactive Audio Triggers for an Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
ICMI
Silvan Mertes, Marcel Strobl, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André
2023 J jnl
An Overview of Affective Speech Synthesis and Conversion in the Deep Learning Era.
Proc. IEEE
Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Björn W. Schuller, Gökçe Iymen, Tevfik Metin Sezgin, Xiangheng He, Zijiang Yang, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Shuo Liu, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André, Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao
2023 J jnl
ForDigitStress: A multi-modal stress dataset employing a digital job interview scenario.
CoRR
Alexander Heimerl, Pooja Prajod, Silvan Mertes, Tobias Baur, Matthias Kraus, Ailin Liu, Helen Risack, Nicolas Rohleder, Elisabeth André, Linda Becker
2023 J jnl
GANonymization: A GAN-based Face Anonymization Framework for Preserving Emotional Expressions.
CoRR
Fabio Hellmann, Silvan Mertes, Mohamed Benouis, Alexander Hustinx, Tzung-Chien Hsieh, Cristina Conati, Peter M. Krawitz, Elisabeth André
2023 A conf
GANterfactual-RL: Understanding Reinforcement Learning Agents' Strategies through Visual Counterfactual Explanations.
AAMAS
Tobias Huber, Maximilian Demmler, Silvan Mertes, Matthew L. Olson, Elisabeth André
2023 J jnl
GANterfactual-RL: Understanding Reinforcement Learning Agents' Strategies through Visual Counterfactual Explanations.
CoRR
Tobias Huber, Maximilian Demmler, Silvan Mertes, Matthew L. Olson, Elisabeth André
2023 B conf
Multimodal Irony for Virtual Characters.
IVA
Thomas Kiderle, Hannes Ritschel, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André
2023 — conf
Phoneme-Based Multi-task Assessment of Affective Vocal Bursts.
DeLTA
Tobias Hallmen, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Florian Lingenfelser, Elisabeth André
2023 B conf
The Affective Bar Piano.
IVA
Hannes Ritschel, Silvan Mertes, Florian Lingenfelser, Thomas Kiderle, Elisabeth André
2023 J jnl
The STOIC2021 COVID-19 AI challenge: applying reusable training methodologies to private data.
CoRR
Luuk H. Boulogne, Julian Lorenz, Daniel Kienzle, Robin Schön, Katja Ludwig, Rainer Lienhart, Simon Jégou, Guang Li, Cong Chen, Qi Wang, Derik Shi, Mayug Maniparambil, Dominik Müller, Silvan Mertes, Niklas Schröter, Fabio Hellmann, Miriam Elia, Ine Dirks, Matías Nicolás Bossa, Abel Díaz Berenguer, Tanmoy Mukherjee, Jef Vandemeulebroucke, Hichem Sahli, Nikos Deligiannis, Panagiotis Gonidakis, Ngoc Dung Huynh, Imran Razzak, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Mario Verdicchio, Pasquale Borrelli, Marco Aiello, James A. Meakin, Alexander Lemm, Christoph Russ, Razvan Ionasec, Nikos Paragios, Bram van Ginneken, Marie-Pierre Revel Dubois
2023 — conf
Towards Automated COVID-19 Presence and Severity Classification.
MIE
Dominik Müller, Silvan Mertes, Niklas Schröter, Fabio Hellmann, Miriam Elia, Bernhard Bauer, Wolfgang Reif, Elisabeth André, Frank Kramer
2023 J jnl
Towards Automated COVID-19 Presence and Severity Classification.
CoRR
Dominik Müller, Niklas Schröter, Silvan Mertes, Fabio Hellmann, Miriam Elia, Wolfgang Reif, Bernhard Bauer, Elisabeth André, Frank Kramer
2023 A* conf
Wish You Were Here: Mental and Physiological Effects of Remote Music Collaboration in Mixed Reality.
CHI
Ruben Schlagowski, Dariia Nazarenko, Yekta Said Can, Kunal Gupta, Silvan Mertes, Mark Billinghurst, Elisabeth André
2023 J jnl
Wish You Were Here: Mental and Physiological Effects of Remote Music Collaboration in Mixed Reality.
CoRR
Ruben Schlagowski, Dariia Nazarenko, Yekta Said Can, Kunal Gupta, Silvan Mertes, Mark Billinghurst, Elisabeth André
2022 J jnl
"GAN I hire you?" - A System for Personalized Virtual Job Interview Training.
CoRR
Alexander Heimerl, Silvan Mertes, Tanja Schneeberger, Tobias Baur, Ailin Liu, Linda Becker, Nicolas Rohleder, Patrick Gebhard, Elisabeth André
2022 J jnl
Alterfactual Explanations - The Relevance of Irrelevance for Explaining AI Systems.
CoRR
Silvan Mertes, Christina Karle, Tobias Huber, Katharina Weitz, Ruben Schlagowski, Elisabeth André
2022 J jnl
Alternative Data Augmentation for Industrial Monitoring using Adversarial Learning.
CoRR
Silvan Mertes, Andreas Margraf, Steffen Geinitz, Elisabeth André
2022 J jnl
An Efficient Multitask Learning Architecture for Affective Vocal Burst Analysis.
CoRR
Tobias Hallmen, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Elisabeth André
2022 J jnl
An Overview of Affective Speech Synthesis and Conversion in the Deep Learning Era.
CoRR
Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Björn W. Schuller, Gökçe Iymen, Tevfik Metin Sezgin, Xiangheng He, Zijiang Yang, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Shuo Liu, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André, Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao
2022 — conf
Bridging the Gap: End-to-End Domain Adaptation for Emotional Vocalization Classification using Adversarial Learning.
MuSe @ ACM Multimedia
Dominik Schiller, Silvan Mertes, Pol van Rijn, Elisabeth André
2022 B conf
Flow with the Beat! Human-Centered Design of Virtual Environments for Musical Creativity Support in VR.
Creativity & Cognition
Ruben Schlagowski, Fabian Wildgrube, Silvan Mertes, Ceenu George, Elisabeth André
2022 J jnl
GANterfactual - Counterfactual Explanations for Medical Non-experts Using Generative Adversarial Learning.
Frontiers Artif. Intell.
Silvan Mertes, Tobias Huber, Katharina Weitz, Alexander Heimerl, Elisabeth André
2022 — conf
Generating Personalized Behavioral Feedback for a Virtual Job Interview Training System Through Adversarial Learning.
AIED (1)
Alexander Heimerl, Silvan Mertes, Tanja Schneeberger, Tobias Baur, Ailin Liu, Linda Becker, Nicolas Rohleder, Patrick Gebhard, Elisabeth André
2022 J jnl
Intercategorical Label Interpolation for Emotional Face Generation with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks.
CoRR
Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Florian Lingenfelser, Thomas Kiderle, Valentin Kroner, Lama Diab, Elisabeth André
2022 — conf
Jamming in MR: Towards Real-Time Music Collaboration in Mixed Reality.
VR Workshops
Ruben Schlagowski, Kunal Gupta, Silvan Mertes, Mark Billinghurst, Susanne Metzner, Elisabeth André
2022 A conf
VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTS.
INTERSPEECH
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Piotr Dura, Hubert Siuzdak, Peter M. C. Harrison, Elisabeth André, Nori Jacoby
2022 J jnl
VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTS.
CoRR
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Piotr Dura, Hubert Siuzdak, Peter M. C. Harrison, Elisabeth André, Nori Jacoby
2021 A conf
A Prototypical Network Approach for Evaluating Generated Emotional Speech.
Interspeech
Alice Baird, Silvan Mertes, Manuel Milling, Lukas Stappen, Thomas Wiest, Elisabeth André, Björn W. Schuller
2021 — conf
Alternative Data Augmentation for Industrial Monitoring Using Adversarial Learning.
DeLTA (Selected Papers)
Silvan Mertes, Andreas Margraf, Steffen Geinitz, Elisabeth André
2021 A conf
Analysis by Synthesis: Using an Expressive TTS Model as Feature Extractor for Paralinguistic Speech Classification.
Interspeech
Dominik Schiller, Silvan Mertes, Pol van Rijn, Elisabeth André
2021 — conf
Continuous Emotions: Exploring Label Interpolation in Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Face Generation.
DeLTA
Silvan Mertes, Florian Lingenfelser, Thomas Kiderle, Michael Dietz, Lama Diab, Elisabeth André
2021 — conf
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Virtual Reality Exergames through Experience-driven Procedural Content Generation.
SSCI
Tobias Huber, Silvan Mertes, Stanislava Rangelova, Simon Flutura, Elisabeth André
2021 J jnl
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Virtual Reality Exergames through Experience-driven Procedural Content Generation.
CoRR
Tobias Huber, Silvan Mertes, Stanislava Rangelova, Simon Flutura, Elisabeth André
2021 A conf
Exploring Emotional Prototypes in a High Dimensional TTS Latent Space.
Interspeech
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Peter M. C. Harrison, Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, Elisabeth André, Nori Jacoby
2021 J jnl
Exploring emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space.
CoRR
Pol van Rijn, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Peter M. C. Harrison, Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, Elisabeth André, Nori Jacoby
2021 — conf
Intercategorical Label Interpolation for Emotional Face Generation with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks.
DeLTA (Selected Papers)
Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Florian Lingenfelser, Thomas Kiderle, Valentin Kroner, Lama Diab, Elisabeth André
2021 — conf
On the Potential of Modular Voice Conversion for Virtual Agents.
ACII (Workshops and Demos)
Silvan Mertes, Thomas Kiderle, Ruben Schlagowski, Florian Lingenfelser, Elisabeth André
2021 — conf
Socially-Aware Personality Adaptation.
ACII (Workshops and Demos)
Thomas Kiderle, Hannes Ritschel, Kathrin Janowski, Silvan Mertes, Florian Lingenfelser, Elisabeth André
2021 — conf
Taming the Chaos: Exploring Graphical Input Vector Manipulation User Interfaces for GANs in a Musical Context.
Audio Mostly Conference
Ruben Schlagowski, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André
2020 C conf
An Evolutionary-based Generative Approach for Audio Data Augmentation.
MMSP
Silvan Mertes, Alice Baird, Dominik Schiller, Björn W. Schuller, Elisabeth André
2020 — conf
Data Augmentation for Semantic Segmentation in the Context of Carbon Fiber Defect Detection using Adversarial Learning.
DeLTA
Silvan Mertes, Andreas Margraf, Christoph Kommer, Steffen Geinitz, Elisabeth André
2020 J jnl
Embedded Emotions - A Data Driven Approach to Learn Transferable Feature Representations from Raw Speech Input for Emotion Recognition.
CoRR
Dominik Schiller, Silvan Mertes, Elisabeth André
2020 J jnl
This is not the Texture you are looking for! Introducing Novel Counterfactual Explanations for Non-Experts using Generative Adversarial Learning.
CoRR
Silvan Mertes, Tobias Huber, Katharina Weitz, Alexander Heimerl, Elisabeth André
2019 B conf
Personalized Synthesis of Intentional and Emotional Non-Verbal Sounds for Social Robots.
ACII
Hannes Ritschel, Ilhan Aslan, Silvan Mertes, Andreas Seiderer, Elisabeth André