Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam

Seeings humans

Beyond the confines of keyboard and mouse, new modalities for human-computer interaction such as facial expressions, voice, gestures, and force feedback are emerging. A very important aspect previously ignored is the emotional aspect. The goal of our research is to automatically detect and perceive the affective state of a user to allow for a more natural human-computer interaction. We apply novel computer vision and machine learning techniques to recognize emotions from visual and audio information, and from a joint audio-visual space.

The website "Glad or Sad" shows some results of this research.

Tracking humans

We aim to track humans in real-life outdoor circumstances robust to all kinds of weather, from one surveillance camera to another.

Participants

• Theo Gevers
• Nicu Sebe (contact human emotions)
• Roberto Valenti