Improving social competences of virtual agents through artificial consciousness based on the Attention Schema Theory

Project Information

ASTOUND

Grant agreement ID: 101071191

DOI

10.3030/101071191

Project closed

EC signature date 14 December 2022

Start date 1 December 2022

End date 30 November 2025

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 3 330 897,50

EU contribution

€ 3 330 897,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Guidelines for an ethical roadmap for oversight of AI projects
Process of database curation established
Website and project logo

Project logo and website ready

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Cognitive plausibility and role of attention schema established

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

DMP generated

Publications

Conference proceedings (35)

Context or Retrieval? Evaluating RAG Methods for Art and Museum QA System

Author(s): Samuel Ramos-Varela, Jaime Bellver-Soler, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Luis Fernando D’Haro
Published in: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Bias, Subjectivity and Norm in Large Language Models

Author(s): Poibeau, T.
Published in: Aequitas (Fairness and Bias in AI), 2024
Publisher: HAL

xDial-Eval: A Multilingual Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation Benchmark

Author(s): Chen Zhang, Luis D’Haro, Chengguang Tang, Ke Shi, Guohua Tang, Haizhou Li
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Issue 5579–5601, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2023.FINDINGS-EMNLP.371

Quelques observations sur la notion de biais dans les modèles de langue

Author(s): Gallienne P., Poibeau T.
Published in: Actes de CORIA-TALN 2023. Actes de la 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), Issue Vol. 3, 2023
Publisher: ATALA

"Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge"" Awareness Inside''"

Author(s): Cosimo Della Santina, Carlos Hernandez Corbato, Burak Sisman, Luis A. Leiva, Ioannis Arapakis, Michalis Vakalellis, Jean Vanderdonckt, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Guido Manzi, Cristina Becchio, A ̈ıda Elamrani, Mohsen Alirezaei, Ginevra Castellano, Dimos V. Dim
Published in: European Robotics Forum, 2024
Publisher: European Robotics Forum
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2402.09030

STEPI: System for Triplet Extraction of Personal Information in Dialogue Systems

Author(s): Villa Monedero, M., Bellver, J., Ghebriout, M. I. E., De Cordoba, R., & D'Haro, L. F.
Published in: Iberspeech2024, 2024
Publisher: ISCA

Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition combining Audio and Text using Small Language Models

Author(s): Jaime Bellver, Mario Rodríguez Cantelar, Marcos Estecha Garitagoitia, Ricardo De Córdoba Herralde, Luis Fernando D'Haro
Published in: Iberspeech2024, 2024
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/IberSPEECH.2024-43

LLM-Driven Multimodal Fusion for Human Perception Analysis

Author(s): Esteban-Romero, S., Martín-Fernández, I., Gil-Martín, M., Griol-Barres, D., Callejas-Carrión, Z., & Fernández-Martínez, F
Published in: MuSe'24: Proceedings of the 5th on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Challenge and Workshop: Social Perception and Hum, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3689062.36890

A comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of large language models as automatic dialogue evaluators

Author(s): Zhang, Chen, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Yiming Chen, Malu Zhang, and Haizhou Li.
Published in: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Issue vol. 38, no. 17, pp. 19515-19524., 2024, ISSN 2374-3468
Publisher: Advancement of Artifcial Intelligence
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.15407

Improving Hand Pose Recognition using Localization and Zoom Normalizations over MediaPipe Landmarks

Author(s): Remiro Pérez, Miguel Ángel, Gil Martín, Manuel and San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Published in: 10th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications session Sensors and Artificial Intelligence, 2023, ISSN 2673-4591
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ECSA-10-16215

DREAM: A Multicultural Multimodal Dataset Linking Dialogues and Realistic Image Sequences

Author(s): Mallo, J., Estecha-Garitagoitia, M., D’Haro, L. F.
Published in: LREC2026, 2026
Publisher: ELRA

Synthesizing Olfactory Understanding: Multimodal Language Models for Image–Text Smell Matching

Author(s): Esteban-Romero, S., Martín-Fernández, I., Gil-Martín, M., & Fernández-Martínez, F.
Published in: Symmetry, Issue 17(8), 2025
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/SYM17081349

Exploring Video Transformers and Automatic Segment Selection for Memorability Prediction

Author(s): Martín-Fernández, I., Romero, S. E., Bellver-Soler, J., Gil-Martín, M., & Martínez, F. F.
Published in: MediaEval’23: Multimedia Evaluation Workshop,, 2024
Publisher: CEUR

THAU-UPM at EmoSPeech-IberLEF2024: Efficient Adaptation of Mono-modal and Multi-modal Large Language Models for Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition

Author(s): Esteban-Romero, S., Bellver-Soler, J., Martın-Fernández, I., Gil-Martın, M., D’Haro, L. F., & Fernández-Martınez, F.
Published in: Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2024) at SEPLN2024, 2024, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: SEPLN

CVQA - Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark

Author(s): David Romero*👁️, Chenyang Lyu*👁️, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo👁️, Teresa Lynn, Injy Hamed, Aditya Nanda Kishore, Aishik Mandal, Alina Dragonetti, Artem Abzaliev, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Chenxi Whitehouse, Christian Salamea, Dan John Velasco
Published in: NeurIPs, 2024
Publisher: NeurIPs

Unveiling the Achilles' Heel of NLG Evaluators: A Unified Adversarial Framework Driven by Large Language Models

Author(s): Chen, Y., Zhang, C., Luo, D., D'Haro, L. F., Tan, R. T., & Li, H.
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2024.FINDINGS-ACL.80

Overview of Dialog System Evaluation Track: Dimensionality, Language, Culture and Safety at DSTC 12.

Author(s): John Mendonça, J., Zhang, L., Mallidi, R., Lavie, A., Trancoso, I. D’Haro, L. F., Sedoc, J.
Published in: Proceedings SigDial 2025, 2025
Publisher: SigDial

Beyond single-audio: Advancing multi-audio processing in audio large language models

Author(s): Chen, Y., Yue, X., Gao, X., Zhang, C., D'Haro, L. F., Tan, R. T., & Li, H.
Published in: EMNLP2024, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Video Memorability Prediction From Jointly-learnt Semantic and Visual Features

Author(s): Martín-Fernández, Iván, Ricardo Kleinlein, Cristina Luna-Jiménez, Manuel Gil-Martín, and Fernando Fernández-Martínez
Published in: 20th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, Orleans, France, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0912-8
Publisher: ACM

Interpreting Sign Language Recognition using Transformers and MediaPipe Landmarks

Author(s): Cristina Luna-Jiménez, Manuel Gil-Martín, Ricardo Kleinlein, Rubén San-Segundo, Fernando Fernández-Martínez
Published in: 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2023, ISBN 979-8-4007-0055-2
Publisher: Association for Machinery Computational
DOI: 10.1145/3577190.3614143

Overview of Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metricsfor Open-Domain Dialogue Systems at DSTC 11 Track 4

Author(s): Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Chen Zhang, Chengguang Tang, Ke Shi, Sarik Ghazarian, João Sedoc, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Alexander I. Rudnicky
Published in: Proceedings of The Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

AI-Driven Microservices Architecture to Create Personalized Experiences

Author(s): Bellver-Soler, J., Ramos-Varela, S., Guragain, A., Córdoba, R., D’Haro, L. F.
Published in: IWSDS 2026, 2026
Publisher: ACL

Thaurus: An innovative multimodal chatbot based on the next generation of conversational ai. 

Author(s): Estecha-Garitagoitia, M., Rodríguez-Cantelar, M., Ruiz, A. G., García, C. G. F., Romero, S. E., Conforto, C., ... & D’Haro, L. F.
Published in: Proceeding Amazon Alexa Socialbot Grand Challenge 5, 2023
Publisher: Amazon

Can Large Sound Event Detection Models Be Accurately Adapted to Specific Acoustic Scenarios?.

Author(s): Fernández-Castañón, R., Espinoza-Cuadros, F. M., Perero-Codosero, J. M., Sancho-Lozano, E., & Hernández-Gómez, L. A.
Published in: International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80946-0_4

Larger Encoders, Smaller Regressors: Exploring Label Dimensionality Reduction and Multimodal Large Language Models as Feature Extractors for Predicting Social Perception.

Author(s): Martín-Fernández, I., Esteban-Romero, S., Bellver-Soler, J., Fernández-Martínez, F., & Gil-Martín, M.
Published in: Martín-Fernández, I., Esteban-Romero, S., Bellver-Soler, J., Fernández-Martínez, F., & Gil-Martín, M., 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3689062.368908

Frequency Analysis and Transfer Learning Across Different Body Sensor Locations in Parkinson’s Disease Detection Using Inertial Signals

Author(s): Rey-Díaz, A., Martín-Fernández, I., San-Segundo, R., & Gil-Martín, M.
Published in: The 11th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 2024
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ECSA-11-20507

A Comprehensive Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease Detection Through Inertial Signal Processing

Author(s): Gil Martín, Manuel; Esteban Romero, Sergio; Fernández Martínez, Fernando; San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Published in: reponame:Archivo Digital UPM, 2024
Publisher: ICAART2024
DOI: 10.5220/0012360100003636

Design, Generation and Evaluation of a Synthetic Dialogue Dataset for Contextually Aware Chatbots in Art Museums

Author(s): Rachidi, I., Ezzakri, A., Bellver-Soler, J., & D’Haro, L. F.
Published in: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Cutting Through Overload: Efficient Token Dropping for Speech Emotion Recognition in Multimodal Large Language Models

Author(s): Bellver-Soler, J., Rodríguez-Cantelar, M., Córdoba, R., & D’Haro, L. F.
Published in: Proceedings IWSDS 2025, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Parkinson’s Disease Detection Through Inertial Signals and Posture Insights

Author(s): Gil Martín, Manuel; Esteban Romero, Sergio; Fernández Martínez, Fernando; San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Published in: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence | 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART24 | 24/02/2024 | Rome, Italy, 2024
Publisher: ICAART
DOI: 10.5220/0012451100003636

A Personalized, Multimodal AI Assistant for Enhancing Museum Visitor Experience

Author(s): A. Guragain, J. Bellver-Soler, S. Ramos-Varela, D. Aragón-Diaz, Long, L., L.F. D’Haro
Published in: Proceedings ALA2025, 2025
Publisher: CEUR

Multimodal Audio-Language Model for Speech Emotion Recognition

Author(s): Bellver, J., Martín-Fernández, I., Bravo-Pacheco, J. M., Esteban, S., Fernández-Martínez, F., & D'Haro, L. F.
Published in: odyssey 2024 , 2024
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/ODYSSEY.2024-41

ASSIST: A Multi-Agentic Framework for Human-Computer Interaction in Cultural Heritage Settings

Author(s): Ramos-Varela, S., Guragain, A., Bellver-Soler, J., Aragón Díaz, D., Lin, L., & D’Haro, L. F.
Published in: International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, 2025
Publisher: SIMBig 2025

Commonsense Generation and Evaluation for Dialogue Systems using Large Language Models

Author(s): Estecha-Garitagoitia, M., Zhang, C., Rodríguez-Cantelar, M., & D'Haro, L. F.
Published in: Proceedings IWSDS 2024, 2024
Publisher: ELRA SigSDS

Multimodal and Multilingual Olfactory Matching based on Contrastive Learning

Author(s): Esteban-Romero, S., Martín-Fernández, I., Bellver-Soler, J., Gil-Martín, M., & Fernández-Martínez, F.
Published in: MediaEval’23: Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, 2024
Publisher: CEUR

Peer reviewed articles (10)

PoE: A Panel of Experts for Generalized Automatic Dialogue Assessment

Author(s): Chen Zhang; Luis Fernando D'Haro; Qiquan Zhang; Thomas Friedrichs; Haizhou Li
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Issue 31, 2023, ISSN 2329-9304
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.08992

Sign Language Dataset for Automatic Motion Generation

Author(s): Villa Monedero, María, Gil Martín, Manuel , Sáez Trigueros, Daniel, Pomirski, Andrzej and San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Published in: Journal of Imaging, Issue 9 (12), 2023, ISSN 2313-433X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/JIMAGING9120262

Evaluating emotional and subjective responses in synthetic art-related dialogues: A multi-stage framework with large language models. 

Author(s): Luna-Jiménez, C., Gil-Martín, M., D’Haro, L. F., Fernández-Martínez, F., & San-Segundo, R.
Published in: Expert Systems with Applications, Issue 255, 124524, 2024, ISSN 1873-6793
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/J.ESWA.2024.124524

Automatic Detection of Inconsistencies and Hierarchical Topic Classification for Open-Domain Chatbots

Author(s): Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Luis Fernando D’Haro,Fernando Matía, Ricardo Córdoba
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 13 (16), 2023, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/APP13169055

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9

Author(s): Gunasekara, C., Kim, S., D'haro, L.F., Rastogi, A., Chen, Y.N., Eric, M., Hedayatnia, B., Gopalakrishnan, K., Liu, Y., Huang, C.W. and Hakkani-Tür, D.,
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Issue 32, 4066 - 4076, 2024, ISSN 2329-9304
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2024.3426331

Sign Language Motion Generation from Sign Characteristic

Author(s): Gil Martín, Manuel , Villa Monedero, María, Pomirski, Andrzej, Sáez Trigueros, Daniel and San Segundo Hernández, Rubén
Published in: Sensors, Issue 23, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/S23239365

Dual Leap Motion Controller 2: A Robust Dataset for Multi-view Hand Pose Recognition

Author(s): Manuel Gil-Martín, Marco Raoul Marini, Rubén San-Segundo, Luigi Cinque
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-024-03968-9

A dataset of synthetic art dialogues with ChatGPT

Author(s): Gil-Martín, M., Luna-Jiménez, C., Esteban-Romero, S., Estecha-Garitagoitia, M., Fernández-Martínez, F., & D’Haro, L. F.
Published in: Scientific Data2052-4463, Issue 11(1),825, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-024-03661-X

Unsupervised Mutual Learning of Discourse Parsing and Topic Segmentation in Dialogue

Author(s): Jiahui Xu, Feng Jiang, Anningzhe Gao, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Haizhou Li
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 2998-4173
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3623884

Testing Theory of Mind in GPT Models and Humans

Author(s): James Strachan, Dalila Albergo, Giulia Borghini, Oriana Pansardi, Eugenio Scaliti, Alessandro Rufo, Guido Manzi, Michael Graziano, Cristina Becchio
Published in: Research Square, 2023, ISSN 2693-5015
Publisher: Research Square
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3262385/v1

Book chapters (1)

Aspectos éticos de la inteligencia artificial

Author(s): : Tomás Bastarreche Bengoa, Alfonso Egea de Haro, María Mercedes Serrano Pérez, Celia Fernández Aller
Published in: Derecho y Justicia Global, Issue 3, 2025, ISBN 978-84-7991-660-2
Publisher: Universitas

Other (1)

Attention Schema in Neural Agents

Author(s): Liu, Dianbo; Bolotta, Samuele; Zhu, He; Bengio, Yoshua; Dumas, Guillaume
Published in: ArXiv, 2023
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.17375