[Colloquium] Colloquium at TTIC: Fernando de la Torre

[Dawn Ellis]

When:   Monday, July 29th, 2013 at 11 a.m.

Where:  TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526

Who:     Fernando de la Torre

Title:     Component Analysis for Human Sensing

Abstract:

Enabling computers to understand human behavior has the potential to
revolutionize many areas that benefit society such as clinical diagnosis,
human computer interaction, and social robotics. A critical element in the
design of any behavioral sensing system is to find a good representation of
the data for encoding, segmenting, classifying and predicting subtle human
behavior. In this talk I will propose several extensions of Component
Analysis (CA) techniques (e.g., kernel principal component analysis,
support vector machines, spectral clustering) that are able to learn
spatio-temporal representations or components useful in many human sensing
tasks. In particular, I will show how several extensions of CA methods
outperform state-of-the-art algorithms in problems such as facial feature
detection and tracking, temporal clustering of human behavior, early
detection of activities, non-rigid feature matching, weakly-supervised
visual labeling, and robust classification. The talk will be adaptive, and
I will discuss the topics of major interest to the audience.

Biography:

Fernando De la Torre received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications
(1994), M.Sc. (1996), and Ph. D. (2002) degrees in Electronic Engineering
from La Salle School of Engineering in Ramon Llull University, Barcelona,
Spain. In 2003 he joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University , and since 2010 he has been a Research Associate Professor. Dr.
De la Torre's research interests include computer vision and machine
learning, in particular face analysis, optimization and component analysis
methods, and its applications to human sensing. He is Associate Editor at
IEEE PAMI and leads the Component Analysis Laboratory (http://ca.cs.cmu.edu)
and the Human Sensing Laboratory (http://humansensing.cs.cmu.edu).

Host:  Raquel Urtasun, rurtasun at ttic.edu


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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Assistant
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637
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