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Ying-Li Tian
Postdoctoral Fellow

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Past Labs & Groups

Affect Analysis Group - Automated analysis of facial expression from digitized image sequences

Face Group - Robust detection, recognition, and tracking of human faces with automated analysis of expressions

Past Projects

Face Databases - Miscellaneous face databases collected at CMU.

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.

Recent publications [View all 13 publications]

• Facial expression analysis
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Handbook of face recognition, S.Z. Li & A.K. Jain, ed., Springer, October, 2003.
  Download: pdf [737 KB] copyrighted

• Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles
  K. Schmidt, J. Cohn, and Y. Tian
  Biological Psychology, Vol. 65, October, 2003, pp. 49 - 66. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [421 KB] copyrighted

• Evaluation of Gabor-wavelet-based facial action unit recognition in image sequences of increasing complexity
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May, 2002, pp. 229 - 234. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [896 KB] copyrighted

• Recognizing action units for facial expression analysis
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 2, February, 2001, pp. 97 - 115. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3784 KB] copyrighted

• Recognizing Facial Actions by Combining Geometric Features and Regional Appearance Patterns
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [797 KB], ps.gz [2291 KB] copyrighted

• Eye-State Action Unit Detection by Gabor Wavelets
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2000), October, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [158 KB] copyrighted

• Recognizing upper face action units for facial expression analysis
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '00), Vol. 1, June, 2000, pp. 294 - 301. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [832 KB] copyrighted

• Comprehensive Database for Facial Expression Analysis
  T. Kanade, J. Cohn, and Y. Tian
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), March, 2000, pp. 46 - 53. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [108 KB] copyrighted

• Dual-state Parametric Eye Tracking
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), March, 2000, pp. 110 - 115. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [332 KB], ps.gz [1334 KB] copyrighted

• Recognizing Lower Face Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), March, 2000, pp. 484 - 490. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [501 KB], ps.gz [2248 KB] copyrighted