About the program: The promise of perceptive interfaces, i.e., systems that can analyze human behavior in real time, is rapidly becoming a reality. These systems may revolutionize behavioral science and engineering by making possible the analysis of human behavior at a level of detail, speed, and range, previously inconceivable. Besides the scientific applications, perceptive interfaces will also affect industry and our daily lives as they find applications in appliances, robots, surveillance systems, and computers.
The Machine Perception Laboratory (UCSD's MPLab) is developing a real time perceptive system, named CERT (Computer based expression recognition toolbox). The goal of CERT is the real time micro analysis of facial expressions from monocular video. Over the years CERT has developed from proof of concept to a system already robust enough to serve as a useful tool for scientific applications. Detail will be given about the approaches we used when developing CERT, which rely heavily on the use of modern machine learning techniques. A brief presentation will be given on some of the other MPLab projects that are exploring the potential uses of perceptive interfaces in science and technology.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Javier Movellan is the Founder and
a Principal Investigator at UCSD's Machine Perception
Laboratory (MPLab).
The mission of the MPLab is to gain insights
into how the brain works by developing embodied systems that solve problems
similar to those encountered by the brain focusing on systems that perceive and
interact with humans in real time using natural communication channels (e.g.,
visual, auditory, and tactile information).
His research interests include automatic analysis of human behavior,
machine perception and machine learning, personal robotics, computational
neuroscience, affective computing, and human-machine interaction. He received his PhD. in 1989 form U.C. Berkeley
and was a Fullbright Scholar.
Time/Place: Wednesday Nov 29, Wednesday 6:00
P.M. Lockheed Martin, 4770 Eastgate Mall
Free for
IEEE members, $5 otherwise.
Reservations/Information: Andrew Diamond (IEEE CIS San Diego
Chapter Chair) (858) 509-3115, adiamond@EnvisionSystemsLLC.com