Biomal Human Emotion Recognition and Peer Steaming Projects at Ryerson Multimedia Research Lab

This talk will describe the work in image, video and multimedia processing carried out at Multimedia Research Lab at Ryerson University. Our work focuses on four topics: human computer interaction, streaming media, indexing and retrieval, and bioinformatics. I will first give a brief introduction on these topics. I will then present two recent projects:

  1. Bimodal human emotion recognition. We investaged language/speaker independent human emotion recognition using audiovisual cues and different feature analysis/pattern recognition methods.
  2. Streaming video over peer-to-peer networks. We proposed centralized peer-to-peer architectures for streaming video transmission over the Internet and wireless networks.

Speaker Details

Ling Guan received his Bachelor Degree in Electronic Engineering from Tianjin University, China in 1982, Masters Degree in Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo, Canada in 1985, and Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of British Columbia, Canada in 1989. From 1993 to 2000, he was on the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. Since May 2001, he has been a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, Canada. In 2001, he was appointed to the position of Tier I Canada Research Chair, and was awarded an Ontario Outstanding Researcher’s Award in 2002. He held visiting positions at British Telecom (1994), Tokyo Institute of Technology (1999), Princeton University (2000) and Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Guan has authored/co-authored more than 200 scientific publications in multimedia processing and communications, computer vision, machine learning, and adaptive image/signal processing. He served as associate editors/guest editors of numerous international journals, including Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and two IEEE Transactions. He was the Founding General Chair of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, and currently serves as the General Chair of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo to be held in Toronto, Canada.

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