Title: Human Centered Computer Vision
Abstract: Facial image processing and analysis is the task of automatically analyzing face images in order to acquire information about the depicted persons. This includes a person’s identity, emotional state, facial gestures, age, and gender. The large number of European projects that involves facial image processing as a part shows its crucial role in a wide range of application domains, such as security, smart environments, human-computer interfaces, and content-based image and video analysis. Considering the advanced security needs of the society and the shift to the paradigm of human-centered computing for natural interfaces, the interest in face processing is expected to continue with increasing pace. In this talk Dr. Ekenel is going to present an overview of computer vision research activities @ Smart Interaction and Machine Intelligence (SiMiT) Lab. The topics will include but not limited to face detection, face recognition, facial expression analysis, face generation and their applications.
Bio: Dr. Ekenel is a visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Qatar University and a full Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering in Istanbul Technical University. His research interest covers computer vision and machine learning with a focus on face analysis and human perception. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed publications in prestigious international journals, conferences, and workshops in the related fields. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 2009. He has founded the Facial Image Processing and Analysis group at the Department of Computer Science in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He has received the EBF European Biometric Research Award in 2008 for his contributions to the field of face recognition. He is also a recipient of the Science Academy Turkey’s Young Scientist Award 2018 and IEEE Turkey Chapter Research Award 2019. He is one of the general chairs of IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2024.
Academic Website: https://web.itu.edu.tr/ekenel/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LfIDj68AAAAJ&hl=en