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Ying-Li Tian
Postdoctoral Fellow

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• 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

• 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.

• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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]
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• 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]
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