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May 2, 2014 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Affective Computing

PhD Thesis by Zahoor Zafrulla "Automatic recognition of American Sign Language Classifiers

Title: Automatic recognition of American Sign Language Classifiers Zahoor Zafrulla School of Interactive Computing College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/z/zahoor/ Committee: Dr. Thad Starner (Advisor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech) Dr. Irfan Essa (Co-Advisor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech) Dr. Jim Rehg (School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech) Dr. Harley Hamilton […]
June 27, 2013 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Affective Computing

Paper in IEEE CVPR 2013 "Decoding Children's Social Behavior"

Abstract We introduce a new problem domain for activity recognition: the analysis of children’s social and communicative behaviors based on video and audio data. We specifically target interactions between children aged 1-2 years and an adult. Such interactions arise naturally in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental disorders such as autism. We introduce a new […]
October 12, 1997 / Last updated : October 12, 1997 irfan Affective Computing

Paper: PUI (1997) "Prosody Analysis for Speaker Affect Determination"

Andrew Gardner and Irfan Essa (1997) “Prosody Analysis for Speaker Affect Determination” In Proceedings of Perceptual User Interfaces Workshop (PUI 1997), Banff, Alberta, CANADA, Oct 1997 [PDF][Project Site] Abstract Speech is a complex waveform containing verbal (e.g. phoneme, syllable, and word) and nonverbal (e.g. speaker identity, emotional state, and tone) information. Both the verbal and […]
July 14, 1997 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Affective Computing

Paper: IEEE PAMI (1997) "Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions"

Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions Essa, I.A. Pentland, A.P. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, July 1997, Volume: 19 , Issue: 7, pp 757 – 763, ISSN: 0162-8828, CODEN: ITPIDJ. INSPEC Accession Number:5661539 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.598232 Abstract We describe a computer vision system for observing facial motion by […]
April 9, 1996 / Last updated : April 9, 1996 irfan Affective Computing

Scientific American Article (1996): "Smart Rooms; by Alex Pentland

Alex Pentland (1996), “Smart Rooms”Scientific American, April 1996 Quote from the Article: “Facial expression is almost as important as identity. A teaching program, for example, should know if its students look bored. So once our smart room has found and identified someone’s face, it analyzes the expression. Yet another computer compares the facial motion the […]
December 1, 1995 / Last updated : December 1, 1995 irfan Affective Computing

Discover Magazine Article (1995) "A Face of Ones Own Memory, Emotions, Decisions"

Evan I. Schwartz (1995) “A Face of One’s Own | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions”, DISCOVER MagazineDecember 1, 1995. Quote from the Article: “Chief among the members of his staff working on the problem is computer scientist Irfan Essa. To get computers to read facial expressions such as happiness or anger, Essa has designed three-dimensional animated […]