BEN LETAIFA Leila

Researcher-lecturer

Google Scholar

lbenletaifa[at]cesi.fr

19 allée de la Forêt de la Reine
54500 Villiers-lès-Nancy

Research interest

  • Speech processing,
  • Emotion detection,
  • Human-machine interaction,
  • Deep learning

Educational activities

  • Disciplines: Computer science
  • Levels: Engineers, masters

Education

PhD

Télécom Paris

2007

Engineering degree

ENIT

1997

Current Research Programs

  • Emotion recognition
  • Large models compression
  • End-to-end speech recognition

Peer-reviewed papers

  • International journals : 8
  • Book chapters : 5
  • International conferences : 16
  • National conference/workshops : 6

Selected publications

Publications sélectionnées

  • Leila Ben Letaifa and Jean-Luc Rouas, “Transformer Model Compression for End-to-end Speech Recognition on Mobile Devices”. 30th European conference on signal processing. EUSIPCO, (2022)
  • Leila Ben Letaifa and Jean-Luc Rouas, « Fine-grained analysis of the transformer model for efficient pruning », 21st International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (2022)
  • Leila Ben Letaifa and Maria Inès Torres, “Perceptual Borderline for Balancing Multi-Class Spontaneous Emotional Data”, Special section on Behavioral Biometrics for Ehealth and Well-being. IEEEAccess (2021)
  • Javier M. Olaso, Alain Vázquez, Leila Ben Letaifa, Aymen Mtibaa, Mohamed Amine Hmani, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, and al. “The EMPATHIC Virtual Coach: a demo”,  23rd  ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction ICMI, (2021)
  • Midel de Velasco, Raquel Justo, Leila Ben Letaifa and María Inés Torres, “Contrasting the Emotions identified in Spanish TV debates and in Human-Machine Interactions”, Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, (2021)
  • Raquel Justo, Leila Ben Letaifa, Cristina Palmero, and al., “Analysis of the Interaction between Elderly People and a Simulated Virtual Coach”, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, JAIHC (2020)
  • Raquel Justo, Leila Ben Letaifa, Javier Mikel Olaso, Asier López-Zorrilla, Mikel Develasco, Alain Vázquez and Mria Inés Torres, “A Spanish Corpus for Talking to the Elderly. Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade”, Springer (2020)
  • Leila Ben Letaifa, Maria Inés Torres and Raquel Justo, “Adding dimensional features for emotion recognition on speech”, IEEE International Conference on advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing ATSIP, (2020)