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Face Group
Heads: Takeo Kanade, Jeffrey Cohn, Fernando De la Torre Frade, Simon Lucey, Yanxi Liu, and Henry Schneiderman
Contact: Fernando De la Torre Frade (ftorre@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC

We are conducting research on a variety of problems related to perception and understanding of human faces.

See the projects below for more details.

Also, see http://www.vasc.ri.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/demos/findface.cgi to detect faces in your own images.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Zara Ambadar - Postdoctoral Fellow, UPitt <ambadar+@pitt.edu>
• [Home] Tsuhan Chen - Professor, ECE (Adjunct) <tsuhan@ece.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Jeffrey Cohn - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <jeffcohn@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Fernando De la Torre Frade - Research Scientist <ftorre@cs.cmu.edu>
• David Duggins - Program Manager/ARL CTA Project Manager <duggins@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Ralph Gross - PhD Student, ISRI <rgross@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Lie Gu - PhD Student, CS <lgu@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof. <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Yanxi Liu - Adjunct Associate Research Professor <yanxi@cs.cmu.edu>
• Simon Lucey - Systems Scientist <slucey+@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Iain Matthews - Senior Systems Scientist <iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)>
• [Home] Karen Schmidt - Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UPitt <kschmidt@pitt.edu>
• Rhiannon L. Weaver - Masters Student, Statistics <rlweaver@andrew.cmu.edu>

• Deception Detection - Learning facial indicators of deception
• Depression Assessment - This project aims to compute quantitative behavioral measures related to depression severity from facial expression, body gestures, and vocal prosody in clinical interviews.
• Face Detection - We are developing computer methods to automatically locate human faces in photos and video.
• Face Recognition - Recognizing people from images and videos.
• Facial Expression Analysis - Automatic facial expression encoding, extraction and recognition, and expression intensity estimation for the applications of MPEG4 application: teleconferencing, human-computer interaction/interface.
• Facial Feature Detection - Detecting facial features in images.
• Generic Active Appearance Models - We are pursuing techniques for non-rigid face alignment based on Constrained Local Models (CLMs) that exhibit superior generic performance over conventional AAMs.
• Image Enhancement for Faces - Video enhancement techniques, specifically tailored for human faces.
• Spatio-Temporal Facial Expression Segmentation - A two-step approach temporally segment facial gestures from video sequences. It can register the rigid and non-rigid motion of the face.

• Enforcing Convexity for Improved Alignment with Constrained Local Models
  Y. Wang, S. Lucey, and J. Cohn
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [652 KB] copyrighted

• Learning Patch Correspondences for Improved Viewpoint Invariant Face Recognition
  A.B. Ashraf, S. Lucey, and T. Chen
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [948 KB] copyrighted

• A Viewpoint Invariant, Sparsely Registered, Patch Based, Face Verifier
  S. Lucey and T. Chen
  International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), December, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [734 KB] copyrighted

• Bilinear Active Appearance Models
  J. Gonzalez, F. De la Torre Frade, R. Murthi, N. Guil Mata, and E. Zapata
  Workshop on Non-rigid Registration and Tracking through Learning, October, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [965 KB] copyrighted

• Non-Rigid Object Alignment with a Mismatch Template Based on Exhaustive Local Search
  Y. Wang, S. Lucey, and J. Cohn
  IEEE Workshop on Non-rigid Registration and Tracking through Learning - NRTL 2007, October, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1845 KB], ps.gz [3043 KB] copyrighted

• Temporal Segmentation of Facial Behavior
  F. De la Torre Frade, J. Campoy, Z. Ambadar, and J.F. Cohn
  International Conference on Computer Vision, October, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Integrating Monolithic and Free-parts Representations for Improved Face Verification in the Presence of Pose Mismatch
  S. Lucey and T. Chen
  Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 28, No. 8, June, 2007, pp. 895 - 903. [Abstract]

• On the Multi-View Fitting and Construction of Dense Deformable Face Models
  K. Ramnath
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
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• The Asymmetry of Image Registration and its Application to Face Tracking
  G. Dedeoglu, T. Kanade, and S. Baker
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 5, May, 2007, pp. 807-823. [Abstract]
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• Exploiting Space-Time Statistics of Videos for Face “Hallucination”
  G. Dedeoglu
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2007. [Abstract]
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