About
For an overview of my publications, students, teaching, etc., see my homepage: http://home.simula.no/~paalh/
Visiting address: SimulaMet, Stensberggata 27, 0170 Oslo
(https://www.simulamet.no/about/contact)
Field of study
Informatics Distributed multimedia systems Sport Data communication Distributed multimedia Artificial intelligence Operating systems EHealth Medical Imaging
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Professionals interviewing maltreated children supported via artificial avatars
The project proposes to develop a new digital interview-training program drawing on expertise in developmental psychology and artificial intelligence
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Vo, Tuan L.; Nguyen, Thu; Ramos, Luis Miguel Lopez;
Hammer, Hugo Lewi
;
Riegler, Michael Alexander
;
Halvorsen, Pål
(2026).
Explainability of machine learning models under missing data.
Applied Soft Computing.
Vol. 196.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2026.115105
Sarkhoosh, Mehdi Houshmand; Øye, Frøy; Sørlie, Henrik Nestor; Vu, Nam Hoang; Johansen, Dag; Midoglu, Cise; Kupka, Tomas;
Halvorsen, Pål
(2026).
ExposureEngine: Oriented Logo Detection and Sponsor Visibility Analytics in Sports Broadcasts.
N.N. (Ed.).
2025 International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM). p. 274-279.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
https://doi.org/10.1109/ism66958.2025.00059
P., Le, Lien; Xuan-Hien, Nguyen, Thi; Nguyen, Thu;
Riegler, Michael
;
Halvorsen, Pål
; T., Nguyen, Binh
(2026).
Data Imputation for Noisy Time-Series Data in Healthcare.
Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh; Anh, Vu Dinh Duc; Kozierkiewic, Adrianna; Van, Sinh Nguyen; Núñez, Manuel; Treur, Jan (Ed.).
Computational Collective Intelligence: 17th International Conference, ICCCI 2025, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 12–15, 2025, Proceedings, Part II | SpringerLink.
Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-09321-9_15
Sarkhoosh, Mehdi Houshmand; Gautam, Sushant; Midoglu, Cise; Nguyen, Thu; Held, Jan; Cioppa, Anthony; Giancola, Silvio; Thambawita, Vajira;
Riegler, Michael
;
Halvorsen, Pål
(2025).
Beyond Audio: Enhancing SoccerNet-Echoes with Multimodal Event Extraction Using LLMs.
International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC).
Vol. 19.
https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793351x25450035
Salehi, Pegah; Sheshkal, Sajad Amouei; Thambawita, Vajira;
Riegler, Michael
;
Halvorsen, Pål
(2025).
Multimodal Integration Challenges in Emotionally Expressive Child Avatars for Training Applications.
Nordic Machine Intelligence (NMI).
Vol. 5.
https://doi.org/10.5617/nmi.12537
Sarkhoosh, Mehdi Houshmand; Midoglu, Cise; Sabet, Saeed Shafiee; Kupka, Tomas;
Halvorsen, Pål
(2025).
VoiceVision: AI-Powered Speaker-Aware Cropping and Content Indexing for Multi-Speaker Videos.
None (Ed.).
2025 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI).
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
https://doi.org/10.1109/cbmi66578.2025.11339302
Gautam, Sushant; Midoglu, Cise; Thambawita, Vajira L B;
Riegler, Michael
;
Halvorsen, Pål
; Shah, Mubarak
(2025).
SoccerChat: Integrating Multimodal Data for Enhanced Soccer Game Understanding.
None (Ed.).
2025 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI).
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
https://doi.org/10.1109/cbmi66578.2025.11339347
Gautam, Sushant;
Riegler, Michael Alexander
;
Halvorsen, Pål
(2025).
Point, Detect, Count: Multi-Task Medical Image Understanding with Instruction-Tuned Vision-Language Models.
IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems.
https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS65348.2025.00090
Gautam, Sushant; Thambawita, Vajira L B;
Riegler, Michael Alexander
;
Halvorsen, Pål
; Hicks, Steven
(2025).
Overview of ImageCLEFmedical 2025 – Visual Question Answering and Synthetic Image Generation for Gastrointestinal Tract.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Vol. 4038.
https://doi.org/https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/
Papachrysos, Nikolaos; Smedsrud, Pia Helen; Ånonsen, Kim Vidar; Berstad, Tor Jan; Espeland, Håvard; Petlund, Andreas; Hedenström, Per;
Halvorsen, Pål
; Varkey, Jonas;
Hammer, Hugo Lewi
;
Riegler, Michael Alexander
; Lange, Thomas de
(2025).
A comparative study benchmarking colon polyp with computer-aided detection (CADe) software.
DEN Open.
Vol. 5.
https://doi.org/10.1002/deo2.70061