Karan SikkaMachine Perception LabUniversity of California, San Diego 9450 Gilman Drive #0440 La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Phone +1 858 822-5241 FAX +1 (858) 822-5242 ksikka AT ucsd DOT edu Short CV Google Scholar Page |
I am a fifth year PhD Student (advanced to candidacy) at Machine Perception Lab and advised by Dr. Marian S. Bartlett . Before joining UCSD I had completed my bachelor's in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati , India. My primary focus is towards developing novel computer vision approaches for solving problems in automated classification of facial expressions in videos. Particularly, my PhD thesis is targeted towards solving the problem of classifying videos of natural (or spontaneous) expressions, while training them with only weak-labels. The challenging part is that these videos are not only captured in relatively uncontrolled environments, but are also unsegmented. Similar challenges also exist in the problem of classifying human actions in videos. My long-term research goal is to solve above problems by combining both generative and discriminative classification frameworks. |
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