Research

July 14, 1997 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Affective Computing

Paper: IEEE PAMI (1997) "Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions"

Coding, analysis, interpretation, and recognition of facial expressions Essa, I.A. Pentland, A.P. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, July 1997, Volume: 19 , Issue: 7, pp 757 – 763, ISSN: 0162-8828, CODEN: ITPIDJ. INSPEC Accession Number:5661539 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.598232 Abstract We describe a computer vision system for observing facial motion by […]
January 7, 1997 / Last updated : March 21, 2023 irfan Face and Gesture

NYT Science Times (1997): “Laugh and Your Computer Will Laugh With You, Someday"

Daniel Goldman (1997 “Laugh and Your Computer Will Laugh With You, Someday” Jan 7, 1997 Issue, New York Times, Science TimesQuote from the article: “Emotions like fear, sadness and anger each announce themselves through a unique signature of changes in facial muscle, vocal inflection, physiological arousal, and other such cues. Building on techniques of pattern […]
December 14, 1996 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Activity Recognition

Paper: IEEE PAMI (1996) "Task-specific gesture analysis in real-time using interpolated views"

Darrell, T.J.; Essa, I.A.; Pentland, A.P., “Task-specific gesture analysis in real-time using interpolated views” Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol.18, no.12, pp.1236-1242, Dec 1996 URL: [ieeexplore.ieee.org] [DOI] Abstract Hand and face gestures are modeled using an appearance-based approach in which patterns are represented as a vector of similarity scores to a set […]
August 25, 1996 / Last updated : August 25, 1996 irfan Face and Gesture

Paper: ICPR (1996): "Motion regularization for model-based head tracking"

S. Basu, I. Essa, A. Pentland (1996) “Motion regularization for model-based head tracking.” In Proceedings of  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996., 25-29 Aug 1996 Volume: 3, page(s): 611-616. [ DOI | PDF] Abstract This paper describes a method for the robust tracking of rigid head motion from video. This method […]
April 9, 1996 / Last updated : March 20, 2023 irfan Computer Vision

Scientific American Article (1996): “Smart Rooms” by Alex Pentland

An article by my Ph.D. Advisor, Alex (Sandy) Pentland describing the Smart Rooms project (also sometimes called the “Looking at People” project, at the MIT Media Laboratory from the early 1990s, in the Scientific American Magazine. My work as a Ph.D. student (1990-1994) and as Research Scientist (1994-1996) was featured in this article. Alex Pentland […]
December 1, 1995 / Last updated : December 1, 1995 irfan Affective Computing

Discover Magazine Article (1995) "A Face of Ones Own Memory, Emotions, Decisions"

Evan I. Schwartz (1995) “A Face of One’s Own | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions”, DISCOVER MagazineDecember 1, 1995. Quote from the Article: “Chief among the members of his staff working on the problem is computer scientist Irfan Essa. To get computers to read facial expressions such as happiness or anger, Essa has designed three-dimensional animated […]
June 20, 1995 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Face and Gesture

Paper: IEEE ICCV (1995) "Facial expression recognition using a dynamic model and motion energy"

Essa, I.A. Pentland, A.P. (1995), “Facial expression recognition using a dynamic model and motion energy”, In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995, 20-23 June 1995, page(s): 360 – 367, 06/20/1995 – 06/23/1995, Cambridge, MA, ISBN: 0-8186-7042-8, INSPEC Accession Number:5028034 Digital Object Identifier: [DOI:10.1109/ICCV.1995.466916][IEEEXplore#] Abstract Previous efforts at facial expression recognition have been […]