Invited Talk by Dr. Takayoshi Yamashita

Dr. Takayoshi Yamashita, Lead Engineer OMRON Corporation, Japan Date: Friday, 30 November 2012 Time: 15:00 - 16:00 Location: MI 03.13.010

Facial Image Sensing Technology "OKAO Vision"

Abstract:

I introduce OKAO vision which is facial image sensing technology. Our OKAO vision has various functions for human understanding. It is categorized to 1) detect human position by face / human detection, 2)recognize human attribute by face recognition, gender/ age estimation and eye open/close estimation etc, 3)recognize human behavior by object tracking, action recognition, and 4)estimate human intention. We have provided these functions to major DSC/DVC companies. I will explain and demonstrate these functions and show application examples.

Biography: Dr. Takayoshi Yamashita is a lead engineer at Omron Corporation. He received the MS degree in engineering from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST), Japan, in 2002 and the PhD degree from the Graduate School of engineering, Chubu University, Japan in 2011. He has been working in OMRON Corporation since 2002. His current research interests include object detection, object tracking, human activity understanding, and pattern recognition. He is a member of the IEEE, IPSJ and IEICE.