| We are pleased to invite you to the following talk: |
| Face Detection and Tracking: First Steps Towards Human-Centered Technology
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Dr Bogdan Raducanu
Computer Vision Center, Barcelona (Spain)
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| Date: 6 April 2006 (Thursday) |
| Time: 11am-12noon |
| Venue: LT10, North Spine, Nanyang Technological University |
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Registration: Please register online via http://www.premia-sg.org/index.php?option=com_events&event_id=13&task=register
(Registration is closed now). |
Synopsis:
The use of context can be a very relevant cue for computer vision-based systems, in order to eliminate a lot of ambiguity and uncertainty, otherwise inherent in the human-computer interaction. Despite of the fact that its obvious importance s widely acknowledged, the great majority of the systems nowadays still lack of this capability. In this paper, we propose faces as a primary contextual information for person detection and present face tracking as a basic procedure for context-driven focus of attention applications. Our proposal was implemented in a combined system, by integrating a motion-based approach ("Particle Filter") and a model-based approach ("Ada-Boost").
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Biography:
Bogdan Raducanu was born in Constanta (Romania) in 1971. He received the B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Polytechnical University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1995. In 2001 he received the Ph.D. ("cum laude") in Computer Science from the University of The Basque Country (Spain). From 2002-2004 he was post-doc at the User-Centered Engineering Dept. from Technical University of Eindhoven (The Netherlands). Since 2004 he is a Project Director at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona (Spain). His research interests are in the area of computer vision, mobile robotics, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. |
