Face Recognition: The State-of-the-Art and New Directions

Speaker:	Prof. Stan Z. LI
		Institute of Automation
		Chinese Academy of Sciences

Title:		"Face Recognition: The State-of-the-Art and
		 New Directions"

Date:		Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Time:		11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:		Room 3416 (via lifts 17/18), HKUST



Biography:

Stan Z. Li received his B.Eng from Hunan University, China, M.Eng from
National University of Defense Technology, China, and PhD degree from
Surrey University, UK. He is currently a professor and the director of
Center for Biometrics and Security Research (CBSR), Institute of
Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA). He worked at Microsoft
Research Asia as a researcher from 2000 to 2004. Prior to that, he was an
associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was
elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the fields of face
recognition, pattern recognition and computer vision.

His research interest includes pattern recognition and machine learning,
image and vision processing, face recognition, biometrics, and intelligent
video surveillance. He has published over 200 papers in international
journals and conferences, and authored and edited 5 books including
"Markov Random Field Modeling in Image Analysis" (Springer, 1st edition
1995, 2nd edition 2001, 3rd edition 2009) and Handbook of Face Recognition
(Springer, 2005). He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions
on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and is acting as the
editor-in-chief for the Encyclopedia of Biometrics (Springer Reference
Work, to be published 2009).  He acted as the program chair for the Asian
Biometrics Forum 2006 and a co-chair for the International Conference on
Biometrics 2007 and 2009, and has been involved in organizing other
international conferences and workshops in the fields of his research
interest.

Stan Z. Li is an expert in face recognition, biometrics and intelligent
video surveillance. The EyeCU face recognition system he developed at
Microsoft Research Asia was demonstrated by Bill Gate on a CNN interview.
He has been leading several national and international projects in
biometrics and intelligent video surveillance. The AuthenMetric face
recognition system and intelligent video surveillance system have been
deployed in several applications, including Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and
China border control.  He is a co-chair of SAC/TC100/SC2 for biometrics
standardization in China and delivered a plenary speech on Biometrics in
China at ISO/IEC JTC1/SC37 on behalf of the China National Body.