Recent Publications

Journal Papers

Lu, H., A.A. Salah, R. Poppe, "Explicitly Modeling Trajectories and Correlations for Video Analysis," Image and Vision Computing, accepted for publication.
Lu, H., A.A. Salah, R. Poppe, "Improving the generalization of ViTs for action understanding with VLM pre-training," Pattern Recognition, Volume 179, Part D, 113794, November 2026.
Valtakari, N.V., R.S. Hessels, A.A. Salah, I. Onal Ertugrul, "Automatically assessing children’s internalizing and externalizing behavior from face and head dynamics during parent-child interaction," Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, accepted for publication.
Pinos Cisneros, T.V., B. Schouten, A.A. Salah, K. Schoorl, M. Nederhand, A. M. Hepping, B. Kröse, G. Ludden, "Design and evaluation of a smart toy for home therapy for children with cerebral palsy," Interacting with Computers, accepted for publication.
Dekker, R., K. Leurs, K. Alajak, A.A. Salah, D. Schans, E. Brouwer, "When data doubles narrate asylum: the agency of government officials and asylum applicants in datafied asylum procedures," Public Management Review, 2025.
Girard, J. M., D.A. Yermol, A.A. Salah, J.F. Cohn, "Computational Analysis of Expressive Behavior in Clinical Assessment," Annual Reviews of Clinical Psychology, vol.22, 2026. (preprint available)
Aydoğdu, B., D. Danış, Ö. Bilgili, C. Yıldızcan, S. N. Yağcıklı, S. Güneş, A.A. Salah, "A novel activity space approach to discover displacement patterns via mobile phone data: An analysis of the 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquakes," EPJ Data Science, vol.14, 61, 2025.
Doornwaard, Suzan M. V. Hazeleger, I.M. Koning, A.A. Salah, S. Vos, R.J.J.M. van den Eijnden, "Psychological Network Analysis for Risk and Protective Factors of Problematic Social Media Use," Information, 16(7), 567, 2025. DOI.
Leurs, K., K. Alajak, R. Dekker, A.A. Salah, "Encountering the Digital Border: Smartphone Screening in the Asylum Procedure in the Netherlands," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2025. DOI.
Arcila Calderón, C., B. Aydogdu, T. Bircan, B. Gunduz, O. Ones, A.A. Salah, A. Sirbu, "Combining Twitter and Mobile Phone Data to Observe Border-Rush: The Turkish-European Border Opening," Journal of Computational Social Science, vol.8, no.26, 2025. DOI.
Aydogdu, B., O. Bilgili, S. Gunes, A.A. Salah, "Mobile phone data for anticipating displacements: Practices, opportunities, and challenges, Data & Policy, Vol.7, e5, 2025. DOI.
Aydoğdu, B., H. Samad, S. Bai, S. Abboud, I. Gorantis, A.A. Salah, "Analyzing international airtime top-up transfers for migration and mobility," Int. Journal of Data Science and Analytics, vol. 19, pp. 319–336, 2025. DOI

Editorial

Bircan, T., A. Sirbu, H. Qi, C. Arcila Calderon, A.A. Salah, "Migrant by Proxy: How Big Data Defines and Redefines Human Mobility," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1-14, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2026.2689658.

Edited Books and Proceedings

Salah, A.A., L. Colonna, F. Florez-Revuelta (eds.), "Privacy-Aware Monitoring for Assisted Living, Springer Cham, 2025.

Book Chapters

Salah, A.A., "Mobil veri ve insan hareketliliği" (in Turkish) in A. Ünver (ed.) Sosyal Veri Bilimi Programlama, Modelleme ve Sosyal Bilimlerde Dijital/Hesaplamalı Yöntemler, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2026.
Salah, A.A., A. el Ali, "Affective User Interfaces," in J. Vanderdonckt, P. Palanque, M. Winckler (eds.), Handbook of Human Computer Interaction, Springer Cham, 2025. (preprint available)
Colantonio, S. et al., "A historical view of active assisted living," in A.A. Salah, L. Colonna, F. Florez-Revuelta (eds.), Privacy-Aware Monitoring for Assisted Living, Springer Cham, 2025.
Salah, A.A., H. Kaya, D. Iren, "Affective computing for AAL," in A.A. Salah, L. Colonna, F. Florez-Revuelta (eds.), Privacy-Aware Monitoring for Assisted Living, Springer Cham, 2025.

International Conference and Workshop Papers

Vekic, V., A. A. Salah, A. Akdag, "Emotional Plants: When Artificial Agents Report Their Internal Affective States," IEEE 9th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), Bangkok, 2026. (Click on the title for author proof and supplementary material.)
Valtakari, N.V., R.S. Hessels, A.A. Salah, I. Onal Ertugrul, "Gaze and other behaviors in the context of predicting children’s clinical symptoms from videos of parent-child interaction," Proc. 23rd European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Ulm, 2026.
van Hannen, S., B. Aydoğdu, S. Güneş, S. N. Yağcıklı, A.A. Salah, ”The (un)predictability of the earthquake-induced mobility,” Proc. NETMOB, Paris, 2025.
Lu, H., A.A. Salah, R. Poppe, "Snakes and Ladders: Two Steps Up for VideoMamba," Proc. Int. Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, 2025.
Li, P., A.A. Salah, J.J. Endendijk, R. Poppe, “Camera-based Assessment of Gendered Toy Preference in Free-Play Parent-Child Interaction,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Development and Learning (ICDL), Prague, 2025.
Ning, M., M. Li, J. Su, J. Haozhe, L. Liu, M. Benes, W. Chen, A.A. Salah, I. Onal Ertugrul, "DCTdiff: Intriguing Properties of Image Generative Modeling in the DCT Space," in Proc. 42nd Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML), Vancouver, 2025.
Ning, M., A.A. Salah, I. Onal Ertugrul, "Revisiting Representation Learning and Identity Adversarial Training for Facial Behavior Understanding," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Clearwater, 2025.

Other

Ning, M., M. Li, L. Zhang, L. Liu, M.B. Blaschko, A.A. Salah, I. Önal Ertugrul, "Spectrum Matching: a Unified Perspective for Superior Diffusability in Latent Diffusion," CoRR abs/2603.14645, 2026.
Keehnen, B., S. Kumova Metin, Ç. Kentmen-Cin, H. Aka Uymaz, A.A. Salah, "Hate Speech Detection on Social Media: A Case Study on the Sports Domain," IEEE 34th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Istanbul, 2026.
Spyrou, S., D. Karavolos, A.A. Salah, "Dual Transformer-based Prediction of Player and Ball Trajectories in Basketball," IEEE 34th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Istanbul, 2026. (Click on the title for the uncorrected author proof and Supplementary Material.)
Doornwaard, Suzan M. V. Hazeleger, I.M. Koning, A.A. Salah, S. Vos, R.J.J.M. van den Eijnden, "Psychological Network Analysis for Risk and Protective Factors of Problematic Social Media Use," Preprints 2025, 2025061099. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202506.1099.v1
Hu, J., B. Aydoğdu, S. Güneş, S.N. Yağcıklı, A.A. Salah, "Prediction of internal migration after an earthquake with call detail records," IEEE 33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Istanbul, 2025.