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Speaker: Jim Rehg
Location: TSRB 132
Title of Seminar: Overview of Expedition in Computational Behavioral Science
Abstract:
In this talk I will provide an overview of a large multi-institution research
effort, recently-funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Georgia
Tech, that aims to develop technology for capturing, measuring, and
understanding human behavior, based on multi-modal data captured from video,
audio, and wearable sensors. The context for our work is the study of autism, a
developmental condition which is characterized by impairments in social
interaction and communication. The diagnosis and treatment of autism is based
on behavioral observations and interventions, which are performed by
highly-trained specialists. Our thesis is that computational models and methods
can accelerate the acquisition and modeling of behavioral data and provide new
forms of decision support for therapy. I will describe the challenges, computational
and otherwise, that we face in this endeavor and give several examples of the
sensing technologies that form the basis for our research.
Bio:
Jim Rehg is a Professor in School of Interactive Computing, where he co-directs
the Computational Perception Lab. He is the Associate Director of Research in
the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, and is also a affiliated with
the Health Systems Institute and the GVU Center. His research interests are in
behavior imaging, computer vision, robot perception, and machine learning. He
has published more than 100 papers in these areas, and has received several
best paper awards with his students and collaborators.
Jim’s Home: www.cc.gatech.edu/~rehg
