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Dita d.o.o.: Maribor, SI

2024 to present | Head of R&D, Funder
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Izidor Mlakar

University of Maribor: Maribor, SI

2017-06 to present | Researcher (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Laboratory for digital signal processing)
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Izidor Mlakar

AI Solutions d.o.o.: Maribor, SI

2014-11-01 to present | Owner/Head Developer
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Izidor Mlakar

Panevropa d.o.o.: Maribor, SI

2012 to 2014-10-31 | Lead developer
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Izidor Mlakar

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Maribor: Maribor, SI

2014 to present | PhD (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
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Izidor Mlakar

Funding (4)

HosmartAI

2021-01 to 2024-05 | Grant
European Commission (Brusells, BE)
URL: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101016834
GRANT_NUMBER: 101016834
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Izidor Mlakar

PALANTIR

2020-09 to 2023-08 | Grant
European Commission (Brusells, BE)
URL: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/883335
GRANT_NUMBER: 883335
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Izidor Mlakar

PERSIST

2020-01 to 2023-02 | Grant
European Commission (Brussles, BE)
URL: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/875406
GRANT_NUMBER: 875406
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Izidor Mlakar

Socio-technological platform for more personificated interaction and more personalized Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in ambient assisted living, SAIAL

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Izidor Mlakar

Works (41)

Exploring the Feasibility of Generative AI in Persona Research: A Comparative Analysis of Large Language Model-Generated and Human-Crafted Personas in Obesity Research

Applied Sciences
2025-02-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/app15041937
Contributors: Urška Smrke; Ana Rehberger; Nejc Plohl; Izidor Mlakar
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Development and Validation of the Perceived Deepfake Trustworthiness Questionnaire (PDTQ) in Three Languages

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
2024-08-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2024.2384821
Contributors: Nejc Plohl; Izidor Mlakar; Letizia Aquilino; Piercosma Bisconti; Urška Smrke
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Quality of Life of Colorectal Cancer Survivors: Mapping the Key Indicators by Expert Consensus and Measures for Their Assessment

Healthcare
2024-06-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12121235
Contributors: Urška Smrke; Sara Abalde-Cela; Catherine Loly; Jean-Paul Calbimonte; Liliana R. Pires; Simon Lin; Alberto Sánchez; Sara Tement; Izidor Mlakar
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Quality of life of colorectal cancer survivors: Mapping the key indicators by expert consensus and measures for their assessment

2024-04-03 | Preprint
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202404.0308.v1
Contributors: Urška Smrke; Sara Abalde-Cela; Catherine Loly; Jean-Paul Calbimonte; Liliana R. Pires; Simon Lin; Alberto Sánchez; Sara Tement; Izidor Mlakar
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Multilingual Framework for Risk Assessment and Symptom Tracking (MRAST)

Sensors
2024-02 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/s24041101
Contributors: Valentino Šafran; Simon Lin; Jama Nateqi; Alistair G. Martin; Urška Smrke; Umut Arioz; Nejc Plohl; Matej Rojc; Dina Bema; Marcela Chávez et al.
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Decoding anxiety: A scoping review of observable cues

DIGITAL HEALTH
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/20552076241297006
Contributors: Urška Smrke; Izidor Mlakar; Ana Rehberger; Leon Žužek; Nejc Plohl
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Using Structural Equation Modeling to Explore Patients’ and Healthcare Professionals’ Expectations and Attitudes Towards Socially Assistive Humanoid Robots in Nursing and Care Routine

International Journal of Social Robotics
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-023-01039-4
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Urška Smrke; Vojko Flis; Nina Kobilica; Samo Horvat; Bojan Ilijevec; Bojan Musil; Nejc Plohl
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Assistive digital technology to promote quality of life and independent living for older adults through improved self-regulation: a scoping review

Behaviour & Information Technology
2023-12-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2022.2149423
Contributors: Gaja Zager Kocjan; Tanja Špes; Matija Svetina; Nejc Plohl; Urška Smrke; Izidor Mlakar; Bojan Musil
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Understanding conversational interaction in multiparty conversations: the EVA Corpus

Language Resources and Evaluation
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-022-09627-y
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Darinka Verdonik; Simona Majhenič; Matej Rojc
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PALANTIR: An NFV-Based Security-as-a-Service Approach for Automating Threat Mitigation

Sensors
2023-02-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/s23031658
Contributors: Maxime Compastié; Antonio López Martínez; Carolina Fernández; Manuel Gil Pérez; Stylianos Tsarsitalidis; George Xylouris; Izidor Mlakar; Michail Alexandros Kourtis; Valentino Šafran
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An End-to-End Framework for Extracting Observable Cues of Depression from Diary Recordings (Preprint)

2023-01-26 | Preprint
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.46022
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Umut Arioz; Urška Smrke; Nejc Plohl; Valentino Šafran; Matej Rojc
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Virtualni pogovorni agent EVA – umetna inteligenca za bolj naravno interakcijo z napravami

2022-12-09 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.18690/um.ff.11.2022.8
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Simona Majhenič
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Scoping Review on the Multimodal Classification of Depression and Experimental Study on Existing Multimodal Models

Diagnostics
2022-11-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12112683
Contributors: Umut Arioz; Urška Smrke; Nejc Plohl; Izidor Mlakar
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Capturing Conversational Gestures for Embodied Conversational Agents Using an Optimized Kaneda–Lucas–Tomasi Tracker and Denavit–Hartenberg-Based Kinematic Model

Sensors
2022-10-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/s22218318
Contributors: Grega Močnik; Zdravko Kačič; Riko Šafarič; Izidor Mlakar
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Establishing an Expert Consensus on Key Indicators of the Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Survivors: A Modified Delphi Study

Journal of Clinical Medicine
2022-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/jcm11072041
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Simon Lin; Jama Nateqi; Stefanie Gruarin; Lorena Diéguez; Paulina Piairo; Liliana R. Pires; Sara Tement; Ilona Aleksandraviča; Marcis Leja et al.
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Study protocol: a survey exploring patients’ and healthcare professionals’ expectations, attitudes and ethical acceptability regarding the integration of socially assistive humanoid robots in nursing

BMJ Open
2022-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054310
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Tadej Kampič; Vojko Flis; Nina Kobilica; Maja Molan; Urška Smrke; Nejc Plohl; Andrej Bergauer
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Aging Adults’ Motivation to Use Embodied Conversational Agents in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: Results of Latent Profile Analysis

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2022-02-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19042373
Contributors: Urška Smrke; Nejc Plohl; Izidor Mlakar
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A randomized controlled trial for evaluating the impact of integrating a computerized clinical decision support system and a socially assistive humanoid robot into grand rounds during pre/post-operative care

DIGITAL HEALTH
2022-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/20552076221129068
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Urška Smrke; Vojko Flis; Andrej Bergauer; Nina Kobilica; Tadej Kampič; Samo Horvat; Damjan Vidovič; Bojan Musil; Nejc Plohl
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Patients-centered SurvivorShIp care plan after Cancer treatments based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence technologies (PERSIST): a multicenter study protocol to evaluate efficacy of digital tools supporting cancer survivors

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
2021-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-021-01603-w
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Simon Lin; Ilona Aleksandraviča; Krista Arcimoviča; Jānis Eglītis; Mārcis Leja; Ángel Salgado Barreira; Jesús G. Gómez; Mercedes Salgado; Jesús G. Mata et al.
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Language, Speech, and Facial Expression Features for Artificial Intelligence–Based Detection of Cancer Survivors’ Depression: Scoping Meta-Review

JMIR Mental Health
2021-12-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2196/30439
Contributors: Urška Smrke; Izidor Mlakar; Simon Lin; Bojan Musil; Nejc Plohl
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Multilingual Conversational Systems to Drive the Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Integration into Clinical Workflows

Symmetry
2021-07-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/sym13071187
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Valentino Šafran; Daniel Hari; Matej Rojc; Gazihan Alankuş; Rafael Pérez Luna; Umut Ariöz
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Language, Speech, and Facial Expression Features for Artificial Intelligence–Based Detection of Cancer Survivors’ Depression: Scoping Meta-Review (Preprint)

2021-05-14 | Other
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.30439
Contributors: Urška Smrke; Izidor Mlakar; Simon Lin; Bojan Musil; Nejc Plohl
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A new fuzzy unit selection cost function optimized by relaxed gradient descent algorithm

Expert Systems with Applications
2020-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113552
Contributors: Matej Rojc; Izidor Mlakar
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A Management Platform for Citizen’s Data Protection Regulation

2019 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1301-5_6
Contributors: Alberto Huertas Celdrán; Manuel Gil Pérez; Izidor Mlakar; Jose M. Alcaraz Calero; Félix J. García Clemente; Gregorio Martínez Pérez
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A New Unit Selection Optimisation Algorithm for Corpus-Based TTS Systems Using the RBF-Based Data Compression Technique

IEEE Access
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2932750
Contributors: Matej Rojc; Izidor Mlakar
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A New Unit Selection Optimisation Algorithm for Corpus-Based TTS Systems Using the RBF-Based Data Compression Technique

IEEE Access
2019 | Journal article
Part of DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2932750
Part of ISSN: 2169-3536
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Izidor Mlakar

Towards Pragmatic Understanding of Conversational Intent: A Multimodal Annotation Approach to Multiparty Informal Interaction – The EVA Corpus

International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing
2019-10 | Conference paper
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Izidor Mlakar

A novel realizer of conversational behavior for affective and personalized human machine interaction - EVA U-realizer -

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85041429174
Contributors: Mlakar, I.; Kačič, Z.; Borko, M.; Rojc, M.
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Advanced Content and Interface Personalization through Conversational Behavior and Affective Embodied Conversational Agents

Artificial Intelligence - Emerging Trends and Applications
2018-06 | Other
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.75599
Part of ISBN: 9781789233643
Contributors: Matej Rojc; Zdravko Kačič; Izidor Mlakar
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The TTS-driven affective embodied conversational agent EVA, based on a novel conversational-behavior generation algorithm

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
2017-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2016.10.006
Part of ISSN: 0952-1976
Contributors: Matej Rojc; Izidor Mlakar; Zdravko Kačič
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An expressive conversational-behavior generation model for advanced interaction within multimodal user interfaces

An Expressive Conversational-Behavior Generation Model for Advanced Interaction within Multimodal User Interfaces
2016 | Book
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2-s2.0-84994516883
Contributors: Rojc, M.; Mlakar, I.
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Describing and Animating Complex Communicative Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior Using Eva-Framework

Applied Artificial Intelligence
2014-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/08839514.2014.905819
Part of ISSN: 0883-9514
Contributors: Izidor Mlakar; Zdravko Kačič; Matej Rojc
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A NEW DISTRIBUTED PLATFORM FOR CLIENT-SIDE FUSION OF WEB APPLICATIONS AND NATURAL MODALITIES—A MULTIMODAL WEB PLATFORM

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1080/08839514.2013.813167

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0883-9514
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TTS-Driven Synthetic Behavior Generation Model for Embodied Conversational Agents

2013 | Other
DOI:

10.1201/b15477-14

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978-1-4665-9825-6
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TTS-driven Synthetic Behaviour-generation Model for Artificial Bodies

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.5772/56870

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1729-8806
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Capturing form of non-verbal conversational behavior for recreation on synthetic conversational agent EVA

WSEAS Transactions on Computers
2012 | Journal article
EID: 2-s2.0-84872461353
Contributors: Mlakar, I.; Rojc, M.
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Izidor Mlakar via Scopus - Elsevier

Form-Oriented Annotation for Building a Functionally Independent Dictionary of Synthetic Movement

2012 | Other
DOI:

10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_21

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0302-9743

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978-3-642-34583-8
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Multilingual and Multimodal Corpus-Based Text-to-Speech System - PLATTOS -

2011 | Other
DOI:

10.5772/16245

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978-953-307-322-4
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Personalized expressive embodied conversational agent EVA

International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Simulation - Proceedings
2010 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-79959917420
Contributors: Mlakar, I.; Rojc, M.
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Finite-state machine based distributed framework DATA for intelligent ambience systems

CIMMACS'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics
2009-12 | Conference paper
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978-960-474-144-1
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Izidor Mlakar

Improving Self-Efficacy and Patient Activation in Cancer Survivors through Digital Health Interventions: Single-Case Experimental Prospective Study
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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