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University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies 13274 Fiji Way Marina del Rey,CA 90292 USA |
Phone: (310) 448-5323
http://people.ict.usc.edu/~morency/ |
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Ph.D. in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis title: Context-based Visual Feedback Recognition
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October 2006 Cambridge, MA
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S.M. in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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June 2002 Cambridge, MA |
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B.A. in Computer Engineering Laval University |
June 2000 Quebec city, Canada |
 | Computer vision: visual gesture recognition, motion tracking, facial expression. |
| Human-computer interaction: robot interactions, intelligent virtual agents. |
| Machine learning: multimodal integration, semi-supervised learning. |
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Research Scientist University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies Research topics: multimodal perception, interactions with virtual agents, nonverbal behaviors generation, context-based recognition.
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2007-present Marina del Rey, CA
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Postdoctoral Associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research topics: visual feedback recognition, embodied conversational agents, multi-modal integration.
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2006-2007 Cambridge, MA
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Research Assistant Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research topics: context-based visual gesture recognition, human-computer interaction, head pose estimation, 3D view registration.
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2000-2006 Cambridge, MA
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Research Intern Honda Research Institute USA Research topic: robot localization algorithm for indoor environment using stereo camera
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Summer 2002 Mountain View, CA
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Research Assistant Computer vision and systems laboratory, Laval University Research topic: three-dimensional object recognition and pose estimation. |
1998-1999 Quebec city, Canada
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Teaching Assistant Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer vision and applications: Prepared problem sets, offered office hours and gave short tutorials.
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Spring 2003 Cambridge, MA
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Teaching Assistant Laval University Algorithms for Engineers I: Data structures, algorithms and oriented object programming. C++ programming for Unix: Assisted 100 students with problem sets and class projects.
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1998-1999 Quebec city, Canada
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Instructor Bois-de-Boulogne College Taught an introductory computer science and web design course to 25 students. Responsible for designing curriculum, daily lectures, and final project.
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Summer 1998 Montreal, Canada
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Science Tutor Sainte-Foy College Provided individual tutoring to students in physics and mathematics. |
1995-1996 Quebec city, Canada
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AI's 10 to Watch, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008 |
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Best paper award, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2008 |
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Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2008 |
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Best paper award, International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2008 |
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Best paper award, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2006 |
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Best paper award, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2005 |
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Best tutor award, Sainte-Foy College, 1996 |
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Honor Roll, Laval University, 1996-1997 |
| L.-P. Morency, C. Sidner, and T. Darrell, Visual Feedback Recognition for Embodied Agent: The role of contextual information, Engineering Approaches to Conversational Informatics, Toyoaki Nishida, Editor. John Wiley & Sons, to be published in 2007 |
J. Hendler, P. Cimiano, D. Dolgov, A. Levin, P. Mika, B. Milch, L.-P. Morency, B. Motik, J. Neville, E. B. Sudderth, and L. von Ahn, AI's 10 to Watch. Intelligent Systems, IEEE press, May/June 2008
L.-P. Morency, C. Sidner, C. Lee, and T. Darrell, Head Gestures for Perceptual Interfaces: The Role of Context in Improving Recognition. Artificial Intelligence. Elsevier, accepted for publication, 2006
A. Quattoni, S. Wang, L.-P. Morency, M. Collins, and T. Darrell, Hidden-state Conditional Random Fields, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), accepted for publication, 2006
A. Rahimi, L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, Reducing Drift in Differential Tracking, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), accepted for publication, 2006
C. M. Christoudias, L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, Non-parametric and Light-field Deformable Models, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 104(1):16-35, October 2006
L.-P.
Morency, I. de Kok and J. Gratch, Context-based
Recognition during Human Interactions: Automatic Feature Selection and
Encoding Dictionary, 10th
International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008), October
2008 **Best paper award**
L.-P. Morency, J. Whitehill and Javier Movellan, Generalized Adaptive View-based Appearance Model: Integrated Framework for Monocular Head Pose Estimation, 8th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2008), September 2008 **Best paper award**
L.-P. Morency, I. de Kok and J. Gratch, Predicting Listener Backchannels: A Probabilistic Multimodal Approach, Conference on Intelligent Virutal Agents (IVA 2008), September 2008 **Best paper award**
X. Sun, L.-P. Morency, D. Okanohara, Y Tsuruoka and Jun’ichi Tsujii, Modeling Latent-Dynamic in Shallow Parsing: A Latent Conditional Model with Improved Inference, The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008), August 2008
L.-P. Morency, A. Quattoni and T. Darrell, Latent-Dynamic Discriminative Models for Continuous Gesture Recognition, Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2007
L.-P.
Morency and T. Darrell, Conditional
Sequence Model for Context-based Recognition of Gaze Aversion, 4th
Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction, June 2007
J. Gratch, N. Wang, A. Okhmatovskaia, F. Lamothe, M. Morales and L.-P. Morency, Can virtual humans be more engaging than real ones?, 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Beijing, China 2007
L.-P. Morency, C. M. Christoudias, and T. Darrell, Recognizing Gaze Aversion Gestures in Embodied Conversational Discourse, International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI’06), Banff, Canada, November 2006
C. M. Christoudias, K. Saenko, L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, Co-Adaptation of Audio-Visual Speech and Gesture Classifiers, International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI’06), Banff, Canada, November 2006 **Best paper award**
J. Gratch, A. Okhmatovskaia, F. Lamothe, S. Marsella, M. Morales, R. J. van der Werf, and L.-P. Morency, Virtual Report, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’06) Marina del Rey, CA, August 2006
L.-P. Morency, C. Sidner, C. Lee, and T. Darrell, The Role of Context in Head Gesture Recognition, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Nectar track (AAAI’06), Boston, MA, July 2006
S. Wang, A. Quattoni, L.-P. Morency, D. Demirdjian, and T. Darrell, Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Gesture Recognition, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’06), New York City, NY, June 2006
C. Sidner, C. Lee, L.-P. Morency, and C. Forlines, The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation, Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’06) Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, March 2006
L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, Head Gesture Recognition in Intelligent Interfaces: The Role of Context in Improving Recognition, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'06), Sydney, Australia, 2006
L.-P. Morency, C. Sidner, C. Lee, and T. Darrell, Contextual Recognition of Head Gestures, International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI'05), pp.18-24, Italy, October 2005 **Best paper award**
L.-P. Morency, C. Sidner, and T. Darrell, Towards Context-Based Visual Feedback Recognition for Embodied Agents, Symposium on Conversational Informatics for Supporting Social Intelligence and Interaction (AISB'05), pp.69-72, Hatfield, UK, April 2005
L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, From Conversational Tooltips to Grounded Discourse: Head Pose Tracking in Interactive Dialog Systems, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI’04), pp. 32-37, 2004
C. M. Christoudias, L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, Light Field Appearance Manifolds, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’04), vol. 4, pp.481-493, Pragues, Czech Republic, May 2004
C. Lee, N. Lesh, C. Sidner, L.-P. Morency, A. Kapoor, and T. Darrell, Nodding in Conversations with a Robot, CHI extended abstracts (CHI’04), pp. 785-786, Vienna, Austria, 2004
M. Siracusa, L.-P. Morency, K. Wilson, J. Fisher, and T. Darrell, A Multi-Modal Approach for determining Speaker Location and Focus, International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI’03), pp. 77-80, 2003
L.-P. Morency, A. Rahimi, and T. Darrell, Adaptive View-based Appearance Model, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’03), vol. 1, pp. 803-810, Wisconsin, June 2003
L.-P. Morency, P. Sundberg, and T. Darrell, Pose Estimation using 3D View-Based Eigenspaces, ICCV workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Face and Gesture, pp. 45-52, Nice, France, October 2003
L.-P. Morency and R. Gupta, Robust Real-time Egomotion from Stereo Images, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’03), vol. 3, pp. 719-722, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003
L.-P. Morency and T. Darrell, Stereo Tracking using ICP and Normal Flow Constraint, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002), vol. 3, pp. 367-372, Quebec city, Canada, August 2002
L.-P. Morency, A. Rahimi, N. Checka, and T. Darrell, Fast Stereo-based Head Tracking for Interactive Environment, International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2002), pp. 375-380, 2002
T. Darrell, K. Tollmar, F. Bentley, N. Checka, L.-P. Morency, A. Rahimi, and A. Oh, Fast-responsive Interfaces: from Direct Manipulation to Perceptive Presence, International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicom’02) pp. 135-151, 2002
A. Oh, H. Fox, M. Van Kleek, A. Adler, K. Gajos, L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, Evaluating Look-to-Talk: A Gaze-Aware Interface in a Collaborative Environment, CHI extended abstracts (CHI’02), pp. 650-651, 2002
A. Rahimi, L.-P. Morency, and T. Darrell, Bounded error parametric motion tracking, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’01), vol. 1, pp. 315-322, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001
L.-P. Morency, Context-based Visual Feedback Recognition, PhD thesis, CSAIL Technical report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-075, October 2006
L.-P. Morency, Stereo-Based Head Pose Tracking Using Iterative Closest Point and Normal Flow Constraint, Master thesis, AI Technical report 2003-006, June 2002
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Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG'08), September 2008 |
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Panelist at the Special session on Multi-sensor HCI for Smart Environments at the Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, September 2008 |
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Tokyo University, Tsujii Lab, September 2008 |
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Massachusetts Institute for Creative Technologies, Vision seminar, May 2008 |
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University of Chicago, McNeil Lab, December 2007 |
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Nothwertern University, ArticulLab, December 2007 |
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University of California, San Diego, Machine perception Laboratory, November 2007 |
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Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories, April 2006 |
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Boston University, Image and Video Computing Group, March 2006 |
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Area chair and program committee for International Conference of Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2008 |
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Program committee for International Conference of Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2009 |
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Program committee for International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2009 |
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Program committee for AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Human Behavior Modeling |
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Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (MM), IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), International Journal Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IPRAI) |
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Trevor Darrell, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, trevor@eecs.berkeley.edu |
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Candace Sidner, Principal Research Engineer, BAE Systems AIT, Burlington MA, candy.sidner@alumni.mit.edu |
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Jonathan Gratch, Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California, gratch@ict.usc.edu |
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Matthew Turk, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, mturk@cs.ucsb.edu |
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Anton Nijholt, Full Professor of Computer Science, University of Twente, Netherland, anijholt@cs.utwente.nl |
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Michael Collins, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mcollins@csail.mit.edu |
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