ICT Researchers Win Best Paper at IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2013

Published: May 2, 2013
Category: News

Congratulations to co-lead authors Stefan Scherer and Giota Stratou, along with Jill Boberg, Jonathan Gratch, Skip Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency. This ICT team of received the best paper award at the prestigious IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2013 in Shanghai, China. The paper, Automatic Behavior Descriptors for Psychological Disorder Analysis, highlights facial behavior indicators correlated with depression, anxiety and PTSD. This research is being used to inform advances in ICT’s SimSensei project. Watch the video below for more information.