Irfan ESSA
Location: (Atlanta, GA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://prof.irfanessa.com
Keywords: Computational Video, Computational Photography, Activity Recognition, Computational Journalism, Human Behavior Modeling and Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Sports Visualization, Interacting with and Authoring Video.
Posted on: Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Graphics / Visualization, HCI / CSCW, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Social Computing / Social Informatics, Technology Policy
Research Interests:
Irfan Essa works in the areas of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics and Computer Animation, with potential impact on Video Analysis and Production (e.g., Computational Photography, Image-based Modeling and Rendering, etc.) Human Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence research. Specifically, he is interested in the analysis, interpretation, authoring, and synthesis (of video), with the goals of building aware environments, recognizing, modeling human activities, and behaviors, and developing dynamic and generative representations of time-varying streams.
He is motivated to build smart intelligent machines that can interact with people. He is also interested in machines that can handle large amounts of media and wants leverage social networks to build systems for large groups of people to interact and create smart media.
