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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yulia Gizatdinova, from the University of Tampere, will visit the lab on Thursday and/or Friday, January 5/6. She’ll give a talk on the vision-based interaction research going on in the TAUCHI group (where I stayed for part of last summer). She can visit either day (or both), so I’m trying to find out which day would be better for having people around.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you’re available either Thursday 1/5 or Friday 1/6, but not both, please let me know. Hopefully this’ll be scheduled by Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yulia may also be visiting for a week or two sometime in the coming academic year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Matthew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Speaker: Yulia Gizatdinova, University of Tampere<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Title: Vision-Based Human Computer Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I will give an overview of recent and ongoing research in the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TAUCHI unit at the University of Tampere, with a focus on vision-based <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>human-computer interaction. I’ll present several research <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>projects which aim at developing innovative vision-based user <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>interfaces and investigating their applicability and usability in a <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>number of prospective application areas such as computer <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>accessibility, smart environments, entertainment and gaming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bio:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yulia Gizatdinova obtained her MSc in Physics from the Rostov State <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>University, Russia in 2002. Then she joined Tampere Unit for Computer <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Human Interaction (TAUCHI) at the University of Tampere (UTA), <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Finland. In 2009, she received her PhD in Interactive Technology on <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>the topic “Automatic detection of face and facial features from images <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>of neutral and expressive faces.” Her current research interests <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>include computer vision, vision-based perceptual user interfaces and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>human-computer interaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>