David Demirdjian

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Function: Research scientist

Project: Visual Interface Project

Contact:

MIT CSAIL room 32-D514
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Tel: (617) 452 3179

Fax: (617) 258 6287

E-mail : demirdji@csail.mit.edu

Research interests:

· Computer Vision

real-time tracking, affective computing, stereo, motion estimation/segmentation

· Human motion

activity and gesture recognition, meeting understanding, scene understanding

· Multimodal User Interfaces

speech/gesture recognition for Human-Computer/-Robot Interaction

Recent Projects:

¨ Gesture-based HCI (Toyota / IWall): 3D gesture-speech interface for human-robot interaction, gesture recognition, virtual reality environments

¨ Perceptual awareness (E21): Monitoring and understanding of human activity in smart environments

¨ Meeting monitoring (Darpa / CALO): face and gaze analysis for meeting understanding

¨ Face expression (Ford): facial expression recognition for communication-error detection

¨ Biomedical (Spaulding, link to come soon): gait analysis for biomedical-oriented applications

Publications

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