Prof Ioannis Patras
Professor of Computer Vision and Human Sensing
Head of The Centre for Multimodal AI and Computing
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Multimodal AI, Affective Computing, NLP
Interests
My expertise is in the area of Computer Vision and Machine learning with applications in Multimedia
Analysis and Affective Computing. My recent works and research interests are at the cross-roads of
Computer Vision and NLP designing methods for both recognition and controllable generation. My aspiration is to contribute to research towards AI systems that serve the greater good.
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
Multimodal Interaction - computational modelling of human behaviour in conversationsIoannis Patras£109,570
Tavus Inc14-09-2026 - 14-09-2029 Multimodal Interaction - controlled generation of human behaviour with diffusion modelsIoannis Patras£102,850
Tavus Inc01-05-2026 - 30-04-2029
AI4MEDIA: Patras (PI)Ioannis Patras£245,072
EU Commission - Horizon 202001-09-2020 - 31-08-2024 Deep Learning from Crawled Spatio-Temporal Representations of Visual DataIoannis Patras£358,043
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-07-2018 - 31-12-2021 Newton Mobility GrantIoannis Patras£12,000
Royal Society10-03-2017 - 10-03-2019 Human Action AnalysisIoannis Patras£180,000
Yamaha Corporation01-01-2017 - 28-02-2019
Research Group
PhD Students
- Zahraa Al Sahili
Towards Trustworthy AI Across Vision and Language - Dario Cioni
Multimodal Representations For Affective Avatars - Alexios Filippakopoulos
Multimodal (Audio and Vision) Conversational Foundation Mode - Tatiana Gaintseva
Semantic Control of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models - Andreas Goulas
Video Understanding With Vlms - Stephanie Keddy
Diverse Hypothesis-Level Reasoning in Large Language Models - Marios Krestenitis
MMV - Mariano Ntrougkas
MMV - Sotirios Papadopoulos
MMV - Chunchang Shao
AI-Enabled Recognition of Negative Affect in-The-Wild - Alexandros Xenos
MMV - Jiahao Yang
MMV - Zhaohan Zhang
MMV - Zengqun Zhao
Analysis of Human Affective Behaviour Using Visual-Language Models
News
June 2026
12 June 2026
On 3–7 June, CMAI researchers participated in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026, held in Denver, Colorado, USA. CVPR is widely regarded as the premier annual conference in computer vision and one of the most prestigious venues in AI, bringing together leading researchers from academia and ... [more]
April 2026
9 April 2026
On 23-27 April, CMAI researchers will participate at the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning.
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November 2025
17 November 2025
On 2-7 December, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), taking place in San Diego. NeurIPS is a prestigious annual academic conference and non-profit foundation that fosters the exchange of research in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computational neuroscience.
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June 2025
14 June 2025
On 30 June - 5 July 2025, CMAI researchers will participate at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the International Neural Network Society.
The Centre for Multimodal AI will have a strong presence at the conference. The following papers authored/... [more]
