Updates
(20/7/11) Call for participation for EPSRC workshop on Vision and (V&L), 15th September 2011.
(26/6/11) FACS/Facial Analysis paper accepted to ICCV 2011 (November, Barcelona).
(7/3/11) ACM FAA 2010 Proceedings can be found here.
(17/2/11) AVA/BMVA Biological and Human Vision meeting announced.
(9/11/10) Talk at BlackRock Studios on Facial Animation
(15/11/10) Talk at Weta Digital on Facial Dynamics from Computational and Perceptual Perspectives
(18/9/10) We have many very exciting project opportunities via our Centre for Digital Entertainment!
(18/9/10) 2nd Call for Submissions for ACM FAA 2010 is out. See http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa/
(5/3/10) V&L EPSRC Network funded. Lots of EngD placements available - email to find out more.
(23/1/09) Our research group, together with the National Animation School at the University of Bournemouth, has just been awarded in the region of £6.5 million to start an EngD training centre in digital effects and video games. The money is for 50 EngD students of the next 5 years. If you are interested in finding out more then send me an email.
(25/7/08) A joint study with Cardiff University exploring the feasibility of facial dynamics as a biometric will be presented at IEEE International conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), 2008.
(11/7/08) New Scientist have written a story on some work we have carried out on the animation of non-linguistic vocalisations.
(10/7/08) A joint study with Cardiff University on the use of facial dynamic in biometrics will be presented at BMVC 2008.
(1/5/08) Audio visual speech data with facial landmarks can now be obtained by contacting me.
(23/4/08) I will be giving a talk at the 12th European Conference on Facial Expressions to be held from 28-31 July 2008 in Geneva. The title will be 'Creating Realistic Facial Stimuli for Psychological Experimentation'.
(7/2/08) Slides for a talk I gave on dynamics at the BMVA workshop on 3D Video may be found here.
(30/1/08) Work on automatic behaviour synthesis using a windowed viterbi algorithm was presented at GRAPP 2008
(24/1/08) I will be giving a talk on facial dynamics and realism at a BMVA workshop on 3D video next month.
(24/1/08) I have uploaded slides for a talk I gave at CVMP 2007 on the importance of facial dynamics.
(28/9/07) 'Virtual Friend' video example uploaded.
(25/9/07) Have uploaded some new video files for talking heads and action unit analysis.
(24/9/07) As of the 1st October I will be a visiting researcher at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey.