Ilya Burenko
Author directory2026
Automatic Annotation of Co-speech Gesture for Multimodal Communication Research – A Framework and a Case Study
Ilya Burenko | Peter Uhrig | Anna Wilson
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue
Ilya Burenko | Peter Uhrig | Anna Wilson
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue
Large-scale multimodal communication research increasingly depends on computational methods capable of extracting reliable gesture annotations from video data. Yet it remains unclear to what extent automatically generated annotations can support the linguistic investigation of naturally occurring co-speech gesture and where expert interpretation remains indispensable. This paper presents a framework for the automatic analysis and annotation of co-speech gesture in media corpora, developed to support multimodal communication research at scale. We build our framework on top of the existing computer vision frameworks for keypoint extraction and active speaker detection, with post-processing steps carefully designed to mitigate noisy output. Building on the processed keypoint trajectories, we implement a configurable rule-based annotation system developed through close collaboration between computer vision researchers and linguists. We demonstrate the usefulness of the framework through a case study investigating vertical hand movement accompanying English expressions of future and past, examining which aspects of this gestural pattern can be captured through automatic annotation and which require expert multimodal interpretation. We find that at corpus scale, greater mean amplitude and higher mean peak velocity converge in *will*-future, suggesting greater kinematic prominence in the multimodal expression of futurity. More broadly, the case study demonstrates how computational pipelines can support, rather than replace, human analysis by enabling multimodal hypotheses to be investigated on datasets that would be impractical to analyse manually.
2021
Generating Mammography Reports from Multi-view Mammograms with BERT
Alexander Yalunin | Elena Sokolova | Ilya Burenko | Alexander Ponomarchuk | Olga Puchkova | Dmitriy Umerenkov
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
Alexander Yalunin | Elena Sokolova | Ilya Burenko | Alexander Ponomarchuk | Olga Puchkova | Dmitriy Umerenkov
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
Writing mammography reports can be error-prone and time-consuming for radiologists. In this paper we propose a method to generate mammography reports given four images, corresponding to the four views used in screening mammography. To the best of our knowledge our work represents the first attempt to generate the mammography report using deep-learning. We propose an encoder-decoder model that includes an EfficientNet-based encoder and a Transformer-based decoder. We demonstrate that the Transformer-based attention mechanism can combine visual and semantic information to localize salient regions on the input mammograms and generate a visually interpretable report. The conducted experiments, including an evaluation by a certified radiologist, show the effectiveness of the proposed method.