Jeffrey F. Cohn, PhD

Co-Chair, International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2009.

Something in the way we move: Motion, not perceived sex, influences nods in conversation. Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Detecting depression from facial actions and vocal prosody. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction.

Co-Chair, Second IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, Miami, Florida, June 2009.

Royal Society, Computation of Emotions in Man and Machine, London, England, April 2009.

Guest editor with Maja Pantic, Special Issue on Visual Analysis of Human Naturalistic Behavior, Journal of Image and Vision Computing.

Multi-PIE released August 2009.

Research

Current Projects

“Facial Expression Analysis by Computer Processing.” National Institute of Mental Health: 8/1/95 to 4/30/11.

Principal Investigator, “Automated Facial Expression Recognition System (AFERS).” Platinum Solutions and Technical Support Working Group, 3/26/09 to 3/25/10.

“Properties of Pain Expression.” Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 10/1/05 to 3/31/10.

“Collaborative Research DHB: Coordinated Motion and Facial Expression in Dyadic Conversation.” The National Science Foundation, 9/1/05 to 12/31/09.

“Automated Measurement of Facial Expression in Autism: Deficits in Facial Nerve Function,” Autism Speaks, 10/1/07 to 3/31/2010.

“Reinforcing Effects of Alcohol during Group Formation.” National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.”

“Computer Assisted System to Increase Speed and Reliability of Manual FACS Coding.” RealleaR, LLC. & Naval Research Laboratory, 9/1/07 to 8/31/09.

Recently Completed Projects

“Psychophysiology of Risk for Depression.” National Institute of Mental Health: 8/1/97 to 6/30/07.

“Multimodal Analysis of Face and Body Gesture Indicators of Communicative Intent,” Naval Research Laboratory, 5/1/05 to 4/30/06.

“Space-Time Face- and Body Biometric for Human Identification from Video.” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 8/1/00 to 7/31/04.

“Collaborative Proposal: Automated Measurement of Infant Facial Expressions and Human Ratings of Their Emotional Intensity.” National Science Foundation, 8/01/04 to 7/31/05.

“Consortium on Nonverbal Communication for Human-Computer Interaction.” Advanced Telecommunications Research Media Integration Center, Kyoto, Japan: 2/1/00 to 1/31/03.

“Parental Depression and Infant Development.” National Institute of Mental Health: 4/1/97 to 3/31/02.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

• Abnormal Psychology
• Developmental Psychopathology
• Psychology of Emotion

Graduate Courses

• Psychological Assessment
• Seminar in Infant Social and Emotional Development
• Seminar in Emotion

Recent Collaborators

Nick Allen, University of Melbourne
Zara Ambadar, University of Pittsburgh
Steven Boker, University of Virginia
Anne Burrows, Duquesne University
Fernando De la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco
Nathan Fox, University of Maryland
Ralph Gross, Carnegie Mellon University
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
Simon Lucey, Carnegie Mellon University
Iain Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University and Weta Digital Ltd
Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK
Daniel Messinger, University of Miami
Ken Prkachin, University of Northern British Columbia
Michael Sayette, University of Pittsburgh
Barry John Theobald, University of East Anglia, UK

Publications

Curriculum Vitae [PDF][DOC]

Selected Publications