Machine Perception Lab

Jacob Whitehill

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of California, San Diego
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I am a 2nd-year PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at UCSD. My research advisor is Dr. Javier Movellan. I completed my undergraduate degree in computer science at Stanford, and my master's degree in computer science at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). Here is my CV.

Research Interests

Machine learning and its applications to computer vision; face analysis; automated tutoring systems.

Publications

Measuring the Perceived Difficulty of a Lecture Using Automatic Facial Expression Recognition (short paper), accepted to Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008.
Automatic Facial Expression Recognition for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, accepted to CVPR 2008 Workshop on Human Communicative Behavior Analysis.
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Personalized Facial Attractiveness Prediction.
Developing a Practical Smile Detector.
Automatic Real-Time Facial Expression Recognition for Signed Language Translation, MSc thesis, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, May 2006.
This thesis contains a fairly comprehensive literature review of automatic facial expression recognition (FER) literature through 2005, which may be helpful for other researchers.
Local versus Global Segmentation for Facial Expression Recognition, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2006).
Haar Features for FACS AU Recognition, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Face & Gesture Recognition (FG 2006).

Personal

I am assistant coach of the San Diego Wrestling, a freestyle wrestling club that welcomes individuals irrespective of gender and sexual orientation. Ich spreche auch fliessend Deutsch.