Achievement

IGERT Fellow Albert Cruz won NSF Judges' Choice Award for his video/poster competition held on May 22-24, 2012. The topic of his poster/video entry is “Recognizing human facial emotions in video: A psychologically-inspired fusion model.”

Albert Cruz published reviewed conference papers related to this work.

A. Cruz and B. Bhanu, “A biologically inspired approach for fusing facial expression and appearance for emotion recognition,” International Conference on Image Processing, Orlando, FL, Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2012.

A. Cruz, B. Bhanu and N. Thakoor, “Facial emotion recognition with expression energy,” 2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop facing continuous emotion representation in conjunction with 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, CA, October 22-26, 2012.

A. Cruz, B. Bhanu and N. Thakoor, Facial emotion recognition in continuous video,” 21st Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition, Nov. 2012.