Recent Publications

Journal Papers

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, accepted for publication.
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
Hessels, R.S., P. Li, S. Balali, M.K. Teunisse, R. Poppe, D.C. Niehorster, M. Nyström, J.S. Benjamins, A. Senju, A.A. Salah, I.T.C. Hooge, "Gaze-action coupling, gaze-gesture coupling, and exogenous attraction of gaze in dyadic interactions," Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Volume 86, pages 2761–2777, 2024.
Alajak, K., D. Ozkul, K. Leurs, R. Dekker, A.A. Salah, "The dangers and limitations of mobile phone screening in asylum processes," Forced Migration Review, vol.73, May 2024. (also available in French, Spanish, and Arabic)
Hendrikx, N.Y., K. Barhmi, L.R. Visser, T.A. de Bruin, M. Po, A.A. Salah, W.G.J.H.M. van Sark, "All sky imaging-based short-term solar irradiance forecasting with Long Short-Term Memory networks," Solar Energy, vol. 272, 112463, April 2024.
Peng, Y., I. Lock, A.A. Salah, "Automated Visual Analysis for the Study of Social Media Effects: Opportunities, Approaches, and Challenges," Communication Methods and Measures, vol.18, no.2, pp.163-185, 2024. DOI

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., A. el Ali, "Affective User Interfaces," in J. Vanderdonckt, P. Palanque, M. Winckler (eds.), Handbook of Human Computer Interaction, Springer Cham, accepted for publication. (preprint available
Salah, A.A., A. el Ali, "Affective User Interfaces," in J. Vanderdonckt, P. Palanque, M. Winckler (eds.), Handbook of Human Computer Interaction, Springer Cham, accepted for publication. (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.
Bircan, T., A.A. Salah, “Emerging Big Data Sources for Studying Migration,” in W. Allen, C. Vargas-Silva (eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, 2nd Ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, October 2024.

International Conference and Workshop Papers

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.
Sogancioglu, G., P. Mosteiro, A.A. Salah, F. Scheepers, H. Kaya, ""Fairness in AI-Based Mental Health: Clinician Perspectives and Bias Mitigation," in Proc. 7th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), San Jose, 2024.
Doyran, M., A.A. Salah, R. Poppe, "Human Contact Annotator: Annotating Physical Contact in Dyadic Interactions," in ICMI 2024 Companion, San José, 2024.
Doyran, M., A.A. Salah, R. Poppe, "Decoding Contact: Automatic Estimation of Contact Signatures in Parent-infant Free Play Interactions" in Proc. of the 26th ACM Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interaction, San José, 2024.
Ruhof, J., A.A. Salah, T.J.P.A.M. van Loon, "Automatic pain estimation in equine faces: More effective uses for regions of interest," Proc. ACII Workshops, Glasgow, 2024.
Lu, H., A.A. Salah, R. Poppe, "Compensation Sampling for Improved Convergence in Diffusion Models," Proc. ECCV, Milano, 2024.
Karaca, B., A.A. Salah, R. Poppe, J. Denissen, S.M.C. de Zwarte, “Survey of Automated Methods for Nonverbal Behavior Analysis in Parent-Child Interactions,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Istanbul, 2024.
Ning, M., M. Li, J. Su, A.A. Salah, I. Onal Ertugrul "Elucidating the Exposure Bias in Diffusion Models," Proc. ICLR, Vienna, 2024.
Lu, H., R. Poppe, A.A. Salah, "TCNet: Continuous Sign Language Recognition from Trajectories and Correlated Regions," Proc. AAAI, Vancouver, 2024.

Other

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.
Arcila Calderon, 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," ArXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12642, 2024.
Schoorl, K., T. Pinos Cisneros, A.A. Salah, B. Schouten, "Wrist movement classification for adaptive mobile phone based rehabilitation of children with motor skill impairments," ArXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17134, 2024.