UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents


     "Analysis of Facial Behaviour in Naturalistic Environments"

                       Dr. Hamit Soyel 
               (Department of Computer Science, 
              Queen Mary, University of London, UK)


                    14 November 2012  (Wednesday)
                            1 -2  pm


                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                      * * Room C152  * *

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available


Abstract:

As robots are increasingly being viewed as social entities to be
integrated in our daily lives, social perceptive abilities seem a
necessary requirement for enabling more natural interaction with human
users. The talk will detail an interaction scenario where users play chess
with an iCat robot and propose an affect recognition system that uses
computational models to automatically extract visual features allowing the
detection of the level of engagement with a social robot that acts as a
game companion. Components within the talk will touch on the multimodal
integration of head direction information with facial expressions
displayed by the user and how this fusion improves the recognition of the
user's affective states. I will also provide a live demonstration of the
proposed system.

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