[4eyes] PhD and MS defenses this week

[Matthew Turk]

A reminder of Yantsey’s MS presentation tomorrow at 9:00am.

 

                Matthew

 

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Subject: [4eyes] PhD and MS defenses this week

 

 

For the benefit of our lab visitors who may not be on the relevant mailing lists, here is a summary of the degree defenses this week with Four Eyes involvement: 

 

Chris Hall, today, Tuesday, 10:00am, PhD defense 

Alan Buzdar, today, Tuesday, 1:30pm, MS defense

Yantsey Tsai, Thursday, 9am, MS defense

 

All three defenses will be in HFH 1132, and everyone is welcome!

Cheers,

    Tobias

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MS Project Defense

Yantsey Tsai

Thursday, June 15th, 2017

9:00am – HFH 1132

 

Committee: Matthew Turk (Co-Chair), Tobias Hollerer, (Co-Chair)

 

Title: Gazelocking for Gaze Correction in Videoconferencing

 

Abstract:

 

During videoconferencing, there is an inherent inability for participants to be engaged due to differences in the physical locations of the webcam and the screen. Participants appear as if they are looking down on each other instead of directly at each other. To remedy this, real time gaze correction systems have emerged to give videoconferencing participants the illusion of eye contact.

 

Our work improves a previous gaze correction system that required users to manually look at the webcam to capture the eye appearance and perform eye replacement. We automate this process by exploring various methods to classify direct gaze (known as gazelocking). We have implemented a system based on image processing techniques and machine learning to solve the gazelocking problem. This system is robust to a variety of factors, including distance to camera, lighting, eye shape, and more. Such a system can be used to replace the manual capture on the old gaze correction system, but also has several additional applications in the HCI realm.

 

Everyone welcome!

 

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