Jeffrey F. Cohn, PhD

University of Pittsburgh
4327 Sennott Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

jeffcohn @ pitt.edu

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Jeffrey Cohn is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Faculty at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.   He has led interdisciplinary and inter-institutional efforts to develop advanced methods of automatic analysis of facial expression and prosody; and applied those tools to research in human emotion, social development, non-verbal communication, psychopathology, and biomedicine. He co-chaired the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2008) and the2009 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2009).  He has co-edited two recent special issues of the Journal of Image and Vision Computing. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Autism Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Technical Support Working Group.


News

Visual and Multimodal Analysis of Human Spontaneous Behavior. Image and Vision Computing, 2009, 28(2).

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. Call for Papers!

Third IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative BehaviorAnalysis, San Francisco, CA, June 2010.

Royal Society, Computation of Emotions in Man and Machine, Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society, 364 (1535).

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

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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


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 (through 2007)

Publications since 2008