Jacob Whitehill

Machine Perception Lab

Jacob Whitehill

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of California, San Diego
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I am entering my 3rd year as a 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

Tutorial: Understanding ACT-R: An Outsider's Perspective: Understanding Anderson's ACT-R model of cognition can be difficult for an outsider, especially because the literature is distributed over a large collection of texts, and the definitions are often vague. This is my summary of the most important topics of the theory.
Toward Practical Smile Detection, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2009 (in press).
A Discriminative Approach to Frame-by-Frame Head Pose Tracking, Face and Gesture Recognition 2008.
Personalized Facial Attractiveness Prediction, Face and Gesture Recognition 2008.
Measuring the Perceived Difficulty of a Lecture Using Automatic Facial Expression Recognition (short paper), Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008.
Automatic Facial Expression Recognition for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, CVPR 2008 Workshop on Human Communicative Behavior Analysis.
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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, Face and Gesture Recognition 2006.
Haar Features for FACS AU Recognition, Face and Gesture Recognition 2006.

Talks

Paul Ruvolo & talked about "Distributed Labeling of Massive Datasets" to the UCSD CSE Artificial Intelligence Seminar on January 26, 2009. PDF.
I gave a "Whirlwind Tour of Computer Science" talk to high school students at a local high school: PPT slides.

Personal

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