| Silvia - Monica FERARU |
| Office address : |
Institute of Computer Science Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch Boulevard Carol I, 22A, cod 700506, Iasi, Romania phone: +40 232 241708 e-mail: monica.feraru@iit.academiaromana-is.ro |
Postdoctoral Program New techniques of analysis, identification and classification of the emotional expressiveness in Romanian language, correlated with paralinguistic parameters, PERFORM-ERA , 2011-2013, ID-57649
PhD
"Electronics and Telecommunications" Faculty, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University, Iasi,
Specialisation: Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
Thesis title: Contributions to the analyzing and development of computer aided learning and monitoring technologies with applications in biomedical engineering domain
MSc in Medical Engineering and Intelligent Systems , Technical University "Gh. Asachi", Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Iasi
BSc Faculty of "Biomedical Engineering", University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Gr. T. Popa" of Iasi, Section graduated: Bioinstrumentation and Medical Techniques
Scientific Researcher at the Institute for Computer Science, Romanian Academy; my work at the Institute for Computer Science started in 2005, when I worked like associated assistant to a priority project of the Romanian Academy, "Cognitive systems and applications", I worked also on developing the web page Archive for the Romanian Sounds
Member of the Center for Education and Research - CERFS
PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0832, Medical signal processing methods based on compressed sensing; applications and their implementation, 2015-2017Advanced Research SPS-NATO supported on Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - New Means and Tools, Trends, 2013
438 PN II - Capacităţi, modul III – ANCS, Managementul resurselor Informaţionale si Asistarea Cooperărilor Ştiinţifice inter-Academice si a Managementului cooperărilor între Academia de Ştiinţe a Republicii Moldova si Academia Română, acronim MIACSAM, Proiect bilateral cu R. Moldova, 2010-2012
12-079 CNMP - "Adaptive bio-mimetic SONAR heads for autonomous vehicles",
member in research team, 2009-2011
46CEEX - "Para-clinical automatic system for para-clinical
diagnosis for the dysfunctional syndrome of the stomatognat system", member in research team, 2005-2008
3374CEEX -"Developing an integrated research network in the
domain of methods, analysis and equipment for determining caloric
consumption patterns and walking dynamics patterns for subjects with
chronic diseases", member in research team, 2005-2008
ORDA nr. 3255/08.04.2013, Metodă de segmentare a semnalului vocal bazată pe reţele neuronale predictive - SROL_SegmRN, Colectiv de cercetare: Zbancioc M., Feraru M.
ORDA nr. 11959/06.05.2010, Instrumente pentru analiza limbii vorbite – AnaLIV, Colectiv de cercetare: Teodorescu H.N., Păvăloi I., Zbancioc M., Feraru M., Pistol L.
ORDA nr. 2931/30.04.2009, Bază de date de înregistrări adnotate şi documentate, de voci cu încărcătură emoţională ’SRoL-IIT’, Colectiv de cercetare: Teodorescu H.N., Zbancioc M., Feraru M., Trandabăţ D., Luca R., Pistol L.
Gold Medal for the protected software "Tools for the Romanian spoken
language analysis - Analiv", Teodorescu H.N., Pavaloi I., Zbancioc M.,
Feraru M., Pistol L., to the International Conference Inventica 2010,
Iaşi, June 9-11
Silver Medal for "A tool of the statistical parameters extraction from
emotional sounds for Romanian language" - IIT-EMOTIS, Zbancioc M., Feraru
M., to the International Exhibition of Research, Innovation and Invention,
PRO INVENT 2011, Cluj – Napoca, Romania
Silver Medal for "Software Inventions", M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, H.N.
Teodorescu, V. Apopei, S. Bejinariu, R. Luca, C. Bulancea, M. Roman to the
European Exhibition of Creativity and Innovation, EUROINVENT 2011, Iasi,
Romania
Gold Medal for software protect "Sound Database Archieve – Annotated and Documented Recordings for Romanian Spoken Language", Teodorescu H.N., Zbancioc M., Feraru M., Trandabăţ D., Luca R., Pistol L., to the International Conference Inventica 2009, Iasi, June 4-6, 2009
"Special Award "Intel Education", for "SRoL - Web-based Resources and Tools used for e-Learning of Languages and Language Technology", Silvia Monica Feraru, Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, to the 4th International Conference on Virtual Learning - ICVL 2009
H. N Teodorescu, R. Ganea, M. Feraru, A. Burlui, Assement of Voice quality based on nonlinear dynamic analysis, Proceedings of The 15th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, May 25-27,2005, Bucharest, România, pp 536-542, ISBN 973-8449-89-8.
Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D., Towards the Emotional Annotation of a Corpus for the Romanian Spoken Language, Romanian Academy Open Days, 8 -10 September 2006, Iaşi, Romania, 2006. ISBN 978-973-730-244-1
Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D., The Emotional Annotation for Romanian Language, 4th European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, ECIT 2006, Iaşi, Romania, 2006, ISBN 973-730-265-6
Teodorescu, H.N., Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D., Nonlinear Assessment of the Professional Voice ‘Pleasantness’, Proceedings of the 18th Biennal International EURASIP Conference BIOSIGNAL 2006, J.Jan, J.Kozumplik, I. Provaynik (Eds.), Vutium Press, pp.63-66, Biosignal, June 2006, Brno, Chech Republik, ISSN 1211 - 412X, ISBN 80-214-3152-0
Teodorescu, H.N., D. Trandabat, M. Feraru, M. Zbancioc, R. Luca, A Corpus of the Sounds in the Romanian Spoken Language for Language-Related Education, Carlos Perinan Pasqual (Eds.), Revisiting Language Learning Resources, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), UK, ISBN 1-84718-156-2, Chapter six, pp. 73-89, 2007.
H.-N. Teodorescu, M. Feraru, A sudy on Speech with Manifest Emotions, 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, vol. 4629/2007, pp. 254-262, ISBN 978-3-540-74627-0
Teodorescu, H-N, Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D. Studies on the Prosody of the Romanian Language: The Emotional Prosody and the Prosody of Double-Subject Sentences, C., Teodorescu, H-N (Eds.) Advances in Spoken Language Technology, The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, România, 2007, ISBN 978-973-27-1516-1, pp. 171-182
H.N. Teodorescu, M. Feraru, Analyzing emotions in spoken Romanian, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Technical Science, Information Science, Ed. Academiei Române, ISSN 1454 - 8267, vol.8, nr. 2, pp. 161-168, Bucharest, May-August 2007
M. Feraru, O. Voronenau, Knowledge based system used for identification and recognition the emotions, SACCS, 16-18 nov 2007, Iaşi, România
M. Feraru, H.N. Teodorescu, Speech Corpus for the Romanian Language: the Emotional Speech Section, Inventica 2008, Ed. Performantica, ISBN: 978-973-730-491-9, pp. 261-273, 21-24 May 2008, Iaşi, România
M. Feraru, H.N. Teodorescu, The Emotional Speech Section of the Romanian Spoken Language Archive, 5th European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, ECIT 2008, 10-12 July 2008, Iaşi, România, ISBN 978973730497
H.N. Teodorescu, M. Feraru, Classification in Gnathophonics - Preliminary Results, The Second International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ISEEE 2008, 12-13 September 2008, Galaţi, România, Galaţi University Press, pp 525-530, ISBN 1842-8046
Teodorescu H.N., Feraru M., Zbancioc M.D., Assesing the Quality of Voice Synthesizers, Burileanu C., Teodorescu H.N. (Eds.) Advances in Spoken Language Technology, The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, România, 2009, ISBN 978-973-27-1808-7, pp. 53-66 (în volum la Editura Academiei şi simultan volum IEEE Proceedings si simultan publicatie IEEE http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentCon.jsp?punumber=5129254)
Feraru M., Teodorescu H.N., Classification of the Emotional States in Speech using the SRoL Database - Preliminary Results, Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial intelligence 2009, Piteşti, România, ISBN 1843-2115
Feraru, M., Păvăloi, I., The Emotional Prosody in Romanian Spoken Language, International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering, EHB, Constanţa, Romania, 22-26.Sept.2009, vol. "Advancements of Medical Bioengineering and Informatics", Edit. UMF "Gr.T. Popa" Iaşi, pp. 247-250, 2009, ISSN 2066-7590.
Feraru, M., Teodorescu, H.N., SRoL - Web-based Resources and Tools used for Language and Language Technology e-Learning, Virtual Learning - Virtual Reality, Proc. 4th International Conference on Virtual Learning, ICVL 2009, Bucharest University Press, ISSN: 1844-8933, Section Models & Methodologies, pp. 119-127
S.M. Feraru, H.N. Teodorescu, M.D. Zbancioc, SRoL - Web-based Resources for Languages and Language Technology e-Learning, Int. J. of Computers, Communications & Control, ISSN 1841-9836, E-ISSN 1841-9844, Vol. V (2010), No. 3, pp. 280-290
H.N. Teodorescu, I. Păvăloi, M. Feraru, Methodological aspects of data organization and statistical analysis of the emotional voice, A. Iftene, H.N. Teodorescu, D. Cristea, D. Tufis (Eds.), Proceedings of ConsILR 2010, Univ. Al. I. Cuza Press, Bucharest, Romania, May 2010, ISSN: 1843-911X, pp. 35-44
M. Zbancioc, H.N. Teodorescu , M. Feraru, The identification techniques for vowel sequences uttered in Romanian language, A. Iftene, H.N. Teodorescu, D. Cristea, D. Tufis (Eds.), Proceedings of ConsILR 2010, Univ. Al. I. Cuza Press, Bucharest, Romania, May 2010, ISSN 1843-911X, ISSN: 1843-911X, pp. 23-34
I. Păvăloi, H.N. Teodorescu, M. Feraru, Methodology and the instrument for statistic analysis of the Romanian language for a population selection, ECIT 2010, October 7-9, Iasi, ISSN: 2069-038X
H.N. Teodorescu, M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "Statistical characteristics of the formants of the Romanian vowels in emotional states", International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue SPeD 2011, 18-21 may 2011 Brasov, Romania, ISBN 978-1-4577-0439-0, pp. 13-22
H.N. Teodorescu, M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "The analysis of the vowel triangle variation for Romanian language depending on emotional states", ISSCS Conference, Iasi, Romania 30June-1Jul.2011, ISBN 978-1-4577-0201-3, pp. 331-334
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "Emotion Recognition of the SROL Romanian Database using Fuzzy KNN Algorithm", International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications ISETC 2012 Tenth Edition, Timişoara, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1177-9, pp. 347-350
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "The Analysis of the FCM and WKNN Algorithms Performance for the Emotional Corpus SROL", Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol. 12, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 33-38, ISSN: 1582-7445
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "A Study about the Statistical Parameters Used in the Emotion Recognition", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Development and Application Systems, Suceava, Romania, 2012, ISSN: 1844-5020, pp. 187-190
S.M. Feraru, "A study about the SRol and Ruslana databases in emotional speech recognition", University of Pitesti Scientific Bulletin, Series: Electronics and Computers Science, ISSN 1453-1119, vol. 12, issue 2/2012, pp. 1-6
S.M. Feraru, "Emotional Speech Classification for Romanian Language - Preliminary Results", 11th International Conference on Development and Application System, Suceava, Romania, 17-19 mai 2012, ISSN: 1844-5020, pp. 158-161
S.M. Feraru, "Emotional expressiveness in Romanian language", WSEAS/INEEE International Conferences, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-61804-085-5, pp. 208-212
S.M. Feraru, "Speech Emotion Analysis in the Romanian Language", Economy Transdisciplinarity Cognition, Vol. 15, Iissue 1/2012, pp. 267-272 - http://www.ugb.ro/etc/etc2012no1/35fa.pdf
S.M. Feraru, "Emotional Speech Classification for Romanian Language - Preliminary Results", 11th International Conference on Development and Application System, Suceava, Romania, 17-19 mai 2012, ISSN: 1844-5020, pp. 158-161
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "A study on classification for the vowel signal according with emotional state based on recurent fuzzy c-means algorithm", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference "Telecommunications, Electronics and Informatics", Chisinau, Republica Moldova, 2012
M. Feraru, M. Zbancioc, "Emotion Recognition in Romanian Language using LPC Features", The 4th IEEE Int. Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering - EHB 2013, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania, 2013, 978-1-4799-2373-1/13/$31.00 ©2013 IEEE
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "A Study about MFCC Relevance in Emotion Classification for SROL Database", Proc. of 4th International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ISEEE 2013, Galati, Romania, USB, ISBN 978-1-4799-2441-7, IEEE Catalog Number CFP1393K-USB
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "The automatic segmentation of the vocal signal using predictive neural network", International Symposium on Signals, Circuits, and Systems - ISSCS 2013, Iasi
M. Feraru, M. Zbancioc, "Speech Emotion Recognition for SROL Database using Weighted KNN algorithm", International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, ISBN: 978-1-4673-4935-2, 10.1109/ECAI.2013.6636198 ©2013 IEEE
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "Using the Lyapunov Exponent from Cepstral Coefficients for Automatic Emotion Recognition", Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Electrical and Power Engineering - EPE 2014, Iaşi, ISSN: 978-1-4799-5848-1
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "Integrated System for Prosodic Features Detection from Speech", Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Electrical and Power Engineering - EPE 2014, Iaşi, ISSN: 978-1-4799-5848-1
M. Feraru, M. Zbancioc, "Emotion Recognition using Lyapunov Exponent of the Mel-Frequency Energy Bands", ECAI 2014 - International Conference 6th Edition Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Bucureşti, ISBN 1843-2115
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "Optimized Segmentation Method of Vocal Signal with Predictive Neural Network", ECAI 2014 - International Conference 6th Edition Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Bucureşti, ISBN 1843-2115
M. Feraru, M. Zbancioc, "Comparative Analysis between SROL - Romanian Database and Emo - German Database", Proc of 12-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems – ISSCS 2015, Iaşi, România
M. Zbancioc, M. Feraru, "A Study about the Automatic Recognition of the Anxiety Emotional State using Emo-DB", The 5th IEEE International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering - EHB 2015, Iaşi, Romania
S. Feraru, D. Schuller, and B. Schuller, "Cross-Language Acoustic Emotion Recognition: An Overview and Some Tendencies", in Proc. 6th biannual Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2015), (Xi’an, P. R. China), pp. 125–131, AAAC, IEEE, 2015.
M. Feraru, M. Zbancioc, M. Fira, "A new emotional corpus for the Romanian Language", 13th International Conference on Development and Application Systems, DAS 2016, Suceava, Romania
M.D. Zbancioc, S.M. Feraru, Recognition of Positive and Negative Emotions for Romanian Language, The 6th IEEE Int. Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering, Romania, INSPEC Accession Number: 17066164, DOI: 10.1109/EHB.2017.7995526, EHB 2017, Sinaia, Romania
S.M. Feraru, M.D. Zbancioc, Emotion recognition for disgust and boredom states, 13-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, Romania, DOI: 10.1109/ISSCS.2017.8034913,ISSCS 2017, Iasi, Romania
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