Prof. Junsong Yuan will visit us on 3/19/2019 and give a talk at 2:00pm.
Title: Towards Intelligent Multimedia Interaction: Understanding Human Behaviors Using RGB-D Sensors
Abstract: To make machines intelligently interact with human beings, it is important for them to understand human behaviors, e.g., through their voices, facial/hand gestures and body actions, so that machines can better sense the intentions of humans, and communicate with them in a natural way. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work of sensing human behaviors using commodity RGB-D sensors, as well as the understanding of human intentions via observing their hand and body interactions with other objects. Potential applications in virtual/augmented reality, tele-operation, human-robot interaction, and video surveillance will also be discussed.
Prof. Junsong Yuan’s Bio:
Junsong Yuan is an Associate Professor and Director of Visual Computing Lab of CSE Department, State University of New York at Buffalo. Before that, he was an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (T-IP) and IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), and served as area chair for CVPR/ACM MM/WACV/ACCV etc. He received 2016 Best Paper Award from IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Nanyang Assistant Professorship from NTU, and Outstanding EECS Ph.D. Thesis award from Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
