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Jeffrey Cohn is Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
and director of the Affect Analysis Group at the University of Pittsburgh
and is Adjunct Faculty at the Robotics
Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology
from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and completed his
Clinical Internship at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
For
the past 20 years, he has conducted investigations in the theory and
science of emotion, depression, and nonverbal communication. His research has been supported by grants from the
National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, the
Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, and the Naval Research Laboratory. |
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Co-Chair, International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2009.
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.
Cohn, J.F. Facial dynamics reveals person identity and communicative intent, regulates person perception and social interaction. International Conference Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Tangalooma, Australia, September 2008.
Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2008), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2008.
Rosenberg, E., Messinger, D., & Cohn, J.F. Advanced FACS methodological issues. The 12th European Conference on Facial Expression, University of Geneva, Switzerland, July 2008. |
Research
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Current Projects
“Facial Expression Analysis by Computer Processing.”
National Institute of Mental Health: 8/1/95 to 4/30/11.
“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
Graduate Courses
- Psychological
Assessment
- Seminar in
Infant Social and Emotional Development
- Seminar in Emotion
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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
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Curriculum
Vitae [PDF][DOC]
Selected
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