Face and Facial Expressions
We are creating a new composite biometric that includes the static face appearance features as well as the behavioral expression features that will, in remote authentication applications, verify the humanness, liveness, and the identity of a user in a single interaction.
This innovation would improve the trust and reliability of face recognition based authentication systems where the user might be operating from an unmonitored and remote location. We are also examining behavioral and physiological variables such as eyes gaze shifting for hotspot detection in counter terrorism scenarios. We envision automated tools to locate hotspots in video sequences which may be highly informative needing detailed human interpretation.
