The goal of the MPLab is to develop systems that perceive and interact with humans in real time using natural communication channels. To this effect we are developing perceptual primitives to detect and track human faces and to recognize facial expressions. We are also developing algorithms for robots that develop and learn to interact with people on their own. Applications include personal robots, perceptive tutoring systems, and system for clinical assessment, monitoring, and intervention.

  • Introduction to the MPLab (PDF)
  • MPLAB 5 Year Progress Report (PDF)
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    Nick: New Scientist has an article about using real/fake smiles for marketing purposes: http://bit.ly/M8KJn

    Nick: Christoph Lampert’s student had the ECCV2008 Best Student Paper on efficient object localization: http://bit.ly/B4HD2

    Andrew Ng new paper on Learning Sound Location from a Single Microphone http://bit.ly/2maKOS

    Andrew Ng has new paper on Near-Bayesian Exploration in Polynomial Time http://bit.ly/2maKOS

    Nick@CVPR: Jitendra Malik’s keynote argued vehemently against sliding windows. His method is slow but not bad. Maybe foveation can help.

    Nick@CVPR: HRL (formerly Hughes Research Lab) in Malibu does bio-inspired robots as a defense contractor & is interested in MPLab’s work.

    Nick@CVPR: Shankar Shivappa is Mohan’s student. He’s at Microsoft for summer but he’d be happy to talk to MPLab about AV fusion in the fall.

    Nick@CVPR: Mohan Trivedi has students working on Audio/Visual Integration. We may want to talk to them about ideas for Einstein.
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