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SUMMARY:BII Seminar | Face Analysis in the Wild
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DESCRIPTION:'''Host:''' Biomedical Imaging Institute\n\n'''About the even
 t:''' \n\n'''Abstract:'''\n\nThe past decade has seen a large number of 
 publications on Automatic Facial Expression Recognition systems (AFERS) 
 and face analysis systems in general. The first AFERS programs are now p
 ublicly available\, either non-profit from academics\, or for sale by co
 mpanies\, giving an indication of what currently works and what doesn't.
  The first facial expression recognition challenge (FERA2011) serves to 
 shed further light on the efforts in this field\, comparing many state o
 f the art approaches on the same\, challenging\, dataset. And as the fie
 ld is maturing with high accuracy obtained in laboratory conditions\, th
 e first face analysis systems are moving out in the wild\, being deploye
 d in real applications by industry and governmental bodies. \n\nIn this 
 talk I will describe two recent contributions towards such face analysis
  in the wild - guided unsupervised learning for fiducial facial point de
 tection to deal with non-frontal head pose and facial expressions\, and 
 Local Gabor Binary Patterns in Three Orthogonal Planes to allow robust d
 ynamic facial expression analysis.\n\n'''Bio:''' \n\n[http://www.cs.nott
 .ac.uk/~mfv Michel Valstar]  is a lecturer at the University of Nottingh
 am. He was a Visiting Researcher at MIT's Media Lab\, and a Research Ass
 ociate in the intelligent Behaviour Understanding Group (iBUG) at Imperi
 al College London. He received his masters' degree in Electrical Enginee
 ring at Delft University of Technology in 2005 and his PhD in computer s
 cience at Imperial College London in 2008. \n\nCurrently he is working i
 n the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition\, where his main
  interest is in automatic recognition of human behaviour\, specialising 
 in the analysis of facial expressions. In 2011 he was the main organiser
  of the first facial expression recognition challenge\, FERA2011\, and t
 he first and second Audio-Visual Emotion recognition Challenges\, AVEC20
 11\, AVEC2012\, and AVEC2013. In 2007 he won the BCS British Machine Int
 elligence Prize for part of his PhD work. He has published technical pap
 ers at authoritative Journals and conferences including SMC-B\, TAC\, CV
 PR\, ICCV and SMC-B and his work has received popular press coverage in 
 New Scientist and on BBC Radio.\n\n'''Registration:'''\n\nIf you would l
 ike to attend this seminar\, please complete the [https://apps.mhs.manch
 ester.ac.uk/surveys/TakeSurvey.aspx?PageNumber=1&SurveyID=9lL05l83&Previ
 ew=true on-line registration form].
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LOCATION:1.006\, AV Hill Building\, Manchester
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