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Research Groups

• Aalborg U, Lab of Image Analysis: Erik Granum
• UC Berkeley Computer Vision Group
• U of California, San Diego: MPI-Video Surveillance and Monitoring
• Cambridge U, Engineering Dept, Speech Vision and Robotics Group: Roberto Cipolla
• Carnegie Mellon U, Interactive Systems Labs (with Karlsruhe): Alex Waibel, Jie Yang
• U Chicago, Computer Science Dept: Roger Kahn
• Columbia U Omnidirectional Sensors for Video Surveillance and Monitoring
• U Dundee: Stephen McKenna
• IDIAP, Machine Vision Group: Juergen Luettin
• INPG: James L. Crowley, Jérôme Martin
• U Karlsruhe, Interactive Systems Labs (with CMU): Rainer Stiefelhagen
• U Leeds, Computer Vision Group: Adam Baumberg, Tony Heap, Neil Johnson
• U Maryland: Larry Davis, Yaser Yacoob, Dariu Gavrila
• MIT AI Lab: Lily Lee
• MIT Media Lab:
  • Gesture and Narrative Language Group: Justine Cassell
  • Software Agents Group: Bruce Blumberg, Pattie Maes
  • Vision and Modeling Group: Aaron Bobick, Matthew Brand, Trevor Darrell, Jim Davis, Roz Picard
• Oxford U, Dept of Engineering Science, Visual Dynamics Group: Andrew Blake
• Queen Mary and Westfield College, London: Vision Group: Shaogang Gong, Jamie Sherrah, Yogesh Raja, Eng-Jon Ong
• U Rochester: Visual Surveillance and Monitoring, Dana Ballard, Randal Nelson
• U Sussex, COGS: Hilary Buxton, Jonathan Howell
• U Toronto, Vision Lab: Shanon Ju
• U York, Dept of Computer Science: Alistair Edwards, Philip Harling

Industrial Groups

• Microsoft Research, Vision Technology Group: Matthew Turk
• Real World Computing Partnership: Shigeki Nagaya
• Texas Instruments Corporate Research Laboratories:
• Xerox PARC, Image Understanding Area: Michael Black

Projects

Carnegie Mellon U, Interactive Systems Labs:

• Multimodal Interfaces: The INTERACT Project

U Chicago, Computer Science Department:

• Animate Agent Project, including Perseus

Digital, Cambridge Research Lab, Vision-Based Interaction Group:

• Smart Kiosk Project

U Leeds, Computer Vision Group:

MIT AI Lab:

• A Forest of Sensors Project
• HCI Project, HAL: The Next Generation Intelligent Room

MIT Media Lab:

• Affective Computing
• The KidsRoom
• Learning and Understanding Action in Video Imagery
• ALIVE, using Smart Rooms, using Pfinder
• SmartCams
• Video Gister
• Virtual Personal Aerobics Instructor

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Systems Biophysics Group, Robotics Group:

• Human Robot Interaction

U Sussex, COGS:

• ISCANIT Project

Texas Instruments Corporate Research Labs:

• Robust Video Motion Detection and Event Recognition

U Toronto, Vision Lab:

• Playbot Project

U York, Dept of Computer Science:

• Gesture-Based Interaction

Databases

• Essex gesture archive

Conferences and Workshops

Previous

• CHI'95 (online proceedings), Denver, CO, March 1997.
• GW'96 (Gesture Workshop), York, UK, March 1996.
• CHI'96 (online proceedings), Vancouver, Canada, April 1996.
• FG'96, Killington, Vermont, October 1996.
• AVBPA (International Conference on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication), Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March 1997.
• CHI'97 (online proceedings), Atlanta, March 1997.
• GW'97, Bielefeld, Germany, September 1997.
• Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, Banff, Canada, October 1997.
• FG'98, Nara, Japan, April 1998.
• CHI'98 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998.
• ESANN'98 (session on processing of facial information), Bruges, Belgium, April 1998.
• IA'98, Workshop on Interaction Agents, L'Aquila, Italy, May 1998.
• AVI'98, Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, L'Aquila, Italy, May 1998.
• GW'99 (3rd Gesture Workshop), France, March 1999.

• BMVC '99, British Machine Vision Conference, University of Nottingham UK, September 13-16, 1999. Submission deadline: 23 April, 1999
• ICCV '99, International Conference on Computer Vision, Kerkyra (Corfu), Greece. September 13-16, 1999. Submission deadline: 5 May, 1999
• IEEE International Workshop on Modelling People (mPeople), Kerkyra (Corfu), Greece. September 20, 1999. Submission deadline: 14 May, 1999
• FG'2000, Grenoble, France, March 2000. Submission deadline: 1st October, 1999
• ECCV'2000, Sixth European Conference on Computer Vision, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 26 June - 1 July 2000. Submission deadline: 22 November, 1999
• ICPR 2000, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, 3-8 September 2000. Submission deadline: 20 December, 1999
• ICCV 2001, International Conference on Computer Vision, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 8-12, 2001. Submission deadline: ?

Related Resources

• ACM SIGCHISpecial Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
• The Computer Vision Home Page
• DARPA Image Understanding Home Page
• The Human-Centred Technology Research Group at COGS, U Sussex
• Waleed Kadous' Machine Gesture and Sign Language Recognition page at U New South Wales
• Comparisons of the different meanings of gestures around the world.
• An Index of Japanese Robotics Research
• Facial Analysis
• The Face Recognition Home Page
• The Video Surveillance and Monitoring (VSAM) Home Page

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