Quaero at l'Echangeur!
Paris, May 26th & 27th 2010.
Quaero today unveiled the new developments that have emerged from its research programme, thus demonstrating its role as a catalyst of innovation. Six actors from the programme covered the significant advances of their projects as well as the technological contributions from which they were able to benefit thanks to Quaero, just 2 years after its launch.
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Face Recognition for Smart Interactions
Hazim Ekenel, Karlsruhe University
Face recognition is one of the most important problems of computer vision and pattern recognition. The main group of applications that has fueled intense efforts on face recognition research is security applications, ranging from authentication tasks, such as for access control that can be used in electronic transactions, desktop login, and internet access, to surveillance tasks, such as bank/store and public area security.
In addition to security applications, person identification is one of the most crucial building blocks for smart interaction applications. Here, smart interaction refers to using perceptual technologies for improved human-human and human-machine interactions. Either as an assistant in human-human interactions, e.g. a memory aid that tells the person who he is talking to, or in human-machine interactions, e.g. a machine that recognizes its user and customizes the preferences accordingly, person identification provides the most important characteristic of natural interactions: personalization. Besides, the identity of a person can be used to improve the performances of other perceptual technologies, such as expression analysis systems or head pose estimation systems, by enabling the use of person-specific models.
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