Thomas S. Huang
Audio-Visual Human Computer Interface
We first give an overview of the Human Computer Intelligent Interaction major research theme of
the Beckman Institute. Then a number of research projects will be described, including: Emotion
recognition, shrug detection, hand tracking and gesture recognition, and audio-visual emotive
avatars.
Dr. Huang's professional interests lie in the broad area of information
technology, especially the transmission and processing of multidimensional
signals. He has published 20 books, and over 500 papers in Network Theory,
Digital Filtering, Image Processing, and Computer Vision. He is
a Member of the National Academy of Engineering;
a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academies of
Engineering and Sciences; and a Fellow
of the International Association of Pattern Recognition, IEEE,
and the Optical Society of American; and has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship , an A.V. Humboldt Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award
, and a Fellowship from the Japan Association for the Promotion of
Science . He received the IEEE Signal Processing
Society's Technical Achievement Award in 1987, and the Society Award in 1991.
He was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
Also in 2000, he received the Honda Lifetime Achievement Award for
"contributions to motion analysis".
In 2001, he received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal.
In 2002, he received the King-Sun Fu Prize,
International Association of Pattern
Recognition; and the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding
Research Award.
In 2005, he received the Okawa Prize.
In 2006, he was named by IS&T and SPIE as the Electronic Imaging
Scientist of the year.
He is a Founding Editor of the
International Journal Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing; and
Editor of the Springer Series in Information Sciences, published by Springer
Verlag.
