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Speaker:        Dr. Harry Shum
                Assistant Managing Director
                Microsoft Research Asia

Topic:          "Recent Development In Face Technologies in MSR Asia:
                Face Detection, Recognition, Hallucination And Cartooning"

Date:           Friday, 15 February 2002

Time:           3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater F
                (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater, near lift nos. 25/26)
                HKUST

ABSTRACT:

In this talk, I will present our latest research results on face detection
(CVPR 2002), face localization (ECCV 2002), face sampling (ICCV 2001),
face hallucination (CVPR 2002) and face cartooning (ICCV 2001 and ACCV
2002). Time permitting, I will also discuss our ongoing work on face
recognition, and highlight some challenging problems in studying faces.



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Biography:

Harry Shum received his Ph.D. in robotics from the School of Computer
Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He worked as a researcher for
three years in the vision technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond.
In 1999, he moved to Microsoft Research Asia where he is currently a
senior researcher and the assistant managing director.  His research
interests include computer vision, computer graphics, human computer
interaction, pattern recognition, statistical learning and robotics.



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