Irfan Essa
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| Residence | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Computer Vision Computational Journalism Machine Learning Computer Graphics Robotics |
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Georgia Tech GVU Center |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Thesis | Analysis, interpretation and synthesis of facial expressions (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alex Pentland |
| Known for | facial recognition, video stabilization, computational photography, computational journalism |
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Irfan Aziz Essa is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing of the College of Computing, and adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He is an Associate Dean in Georgia Tech's College of Computing and the Director of the new Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech (ML@GT).
Essa obtained his undergraduate degree in Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1988. Following this, Essa attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his magister scientiae (Master of Science) in 1990 and his Ph.D. in 1995 at the MIT Media Lab. His doctoral research focused on the implementation of a system to detect emotions from changes in your facial expression, which was later featured in the New York Times. He proceeded to hold a position as a Research Scientist at MIT from 1994 to 1996 before accepting a position at Georgia Tech.
Essa's work focuses mainly in the areas of Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Computer Graphics and Animation, Robotics, Computational Perception, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Computational Journalism and Artificial Intelligence.
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