Thursday, October 16, 2008

IROS 2008 Keynote speech: Understanding Human Faces

At IROS 2008, Takeo Kanade delivered a great speech summarizing what he has being working on in terms of understanding human faces. Below is the abstract:

A human face conveys important information: identity, emotion, and intention of the person. Technologies to process and understand human faces have many applications, ranging from biometrics to medical diagnosis, and from surveillance to human-robot interaction. This talk will give an overview of the recent progress that the CMU Face Group has made, in particular, robust face alignment, facial Action Unit (AU) recognition for emotion analysis, and facial video cloning for understanding human dyadic communication.


The video I took is available at http://robotics.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~bobwang/iros2008/. As I selected a wrong/low resolution to record this one-hour talk, it is hard to see the slides. Fortunately, the audio is clear. Take a look (or listen to this excellent talk)!

-Bob

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