Towards vision based Emotion AI

Abstract: Emotions play a key role in human-human interactions and become one key focus in future Artificial Intelligence. There is a growing need to develop emotionally intelligent interfaces, which are able to read the emotions of the users and adapt their operations accordingly. Among the areas of application are human-robot interaction, emotional chatpots, health and medicine, on-line learning, user or customer analysis, and security and safety. This talk will provide an introduction to the emotional interfaces, and overviews our progress in related research. The research topics to be covered include facial (micro)-expression recognition, emotional gestures, remote heart rate measurement from videos and potential applications. Finally, some future challenges are outlined.

Short bio: Guoying Zhao received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2005. She is currently an Academy Professor and full Professor (tenured in 2017) with University of Oulu. She is/was also a visiting professor with Aalto University and Stanford University. She is a member of Academia Europaea, a member of Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR and ELLIS. She was panel chair for IEEE conference on Automatic Face and Gesture (FG 2023), publicity chair of 22nd Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2023), co-program chair for ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021), co-publicity chair for FG2018, and has served as associate editor for IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Image and Vision Computing and Frontiers in Psychology Journals. Her current research interests include image and video descriptors, facial-expression and micro-expression recognition, emotional gesture analysis, affective computing, and biometrics. Her research has been reported by Finnish TV programs, newspapers and MIT Technology Review.

Presenter: Prof. Guoying Zhao, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu,(Oulu, Finland)

Date: 2023-11-23 11:30 (CET)

Location: Salón de Grados del Edificio de Óptica, Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, San Vicente del Raspeig 03690, Alicante ES

Online: https://vertice.cpd.ua.es/287855