[Yhslug] Re: Former presenter, Christian Vogler's work in the news

[flint at flint.com]

Dear Kevin,

This is indeed very excellently cool.

Have a great weekend and...

Kindest Regards,

Flint

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Kevin Cole wrote:

> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:10:47 -0500
> From: Kevin Cole <kjcole at gri.gallaudet.edu>
> To: Jeff Elkner <jelkner at divmod.com>, Paul Flint <flint at flint.com>,
>     yhslug at calypso.tux.org
> Subject: Former presenter, Christian Vogler's work in the news
> 
> In a bizarre way. ;-)  You know that astro-nut in the news lately?
>
> Former YHSLUG presenter Christian Vogler, Ph.D. focuses his work on
> facial expression recognition.  This morning, he came by my office to
> let me know his work had been mentioned, although the article doesn't
> mention him by name:
>
> http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/02/09/1348217.shtml
> http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4212593.html
>
> The second-last paragraph reads:
>
>  "David Dinges, a professor of experimental psychiatry at the University
>  of Pennsylvania, has been developing a system that automatically monitors
>  facial expressions, using computer algorithms to detect signs of
>  psychological distress. The system was tested in the NASA Extreme
>  Environment Mission Operations project in an undersea lab off the coast
>  of Florida last year. Rather than seeking obvious emotions, the computer
>  looks for minute, subconscious facial movements that betray psychological
>  stress. The optical recognition system is currently undergoing tests in
>  Dinges's lab, he said in an e-mail."
>
> Christian wrote the grant proposal for the project, and worked closely with
> two others: Siome Goldenstein at UNICAMP, Brazil and Dimitris Metaxas at
> Rutgers and University of Pennsylvania.
>
> See also:
>  * Christian's research page
>    http://gri.gallaudet.edu/~cvogler/research/
>
>  * Siome's research page
>    http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~siome/
>
>  * Dimitris' page
>    http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~dnm/
>

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