[Ltg] HAIL Seminar *Reminder* (28th August): Hatice Gunes, University of Technology, Sydney

[Ronnie.Ma at csiro.au]

                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
                          CSIRO ICT Centre
                   http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/

                    
Title:          From Monomodal to Multimodal: Affect Recognition Using
                Visual Modalities

Speaker:        Hatice Gunes
                Faculty of Information Technology
                Department of Computer Systems
                University of Technology, Sydney

Date:           Tuesday 28th August 2007 at 11am

Location:       CSIRO ICT Centre,
                Building E6B, Macquarie University.

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Abstract

Affective computing has emerged with the aim to enable affective
human-computer interaction by designing machines and interfaces that
will sense, recognise, understand and interpret human emotional states
via language, speech, facial and bodily gesture and respond accordingly.
Although much progress has been achieved in the last decade, one major
present limitation of affective computing has been that most of the
research on emotion recognition has focused on one single sensorial
source, or modality, at a time and especially the face display. While it
is true that the face is the main display of a human's affective state,
other sources can improve the recognition accuracy. As natural
human-to-human interaction is multimodal, the single sensory
observations are often ambiguous, uncertain, and incomplete. Despite
this fact, the research community has only recently started proposing
emotion recognition systems using affective multimodal data.

This talk will introduce recent advances in multimodal affect
recognition by focusing on visual modalities. The talk will start by
defining affect and emotions and provide a brief historical background
of the research field. The problem domain of multimodal affective
computing will be discussed next, by focusing on background research,
data collection, data annotation, synchrony between modalities, data
integration or fusion, information complementarity or redundancy, and
information content of modalities. A number of representative systems
introduced within the last 5 years analysing monomodal face or body
display will be presented. The talk will then cover the representative
systems recognising affective bimodal/multimodal data from visual
modalities. The limitations of the current systems will be summarized
and the features of an 'ideal' multimodal affect analyser will be
discussed in order to provide an insight for the future of affective
computing.

Short resume

Hatice Gunes finished her PhD titled "Vision-based Multimodal Analysis
of Affective Face and Upper-body Behaviour" at the University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS) in July 2007. She is currently a Research
Associate in the Computer Vision and Visualisation Research Group at the
Faculty of Information Technology, UTS. She is working on the Australian
Research Council (ARC) funded Linkage Project titled "Automatic
real-time detection of infiltrated objects for security of airports and
train stations" with A/Prof. Massimo Piccardi. Her major research
interests are in the areas of affective computing, multimodal
human-computer interaction, image analysis and processing, machine
learning and pattern recognition.

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