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