Katherine Olives
EmoTrain will present at the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) at the Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas from June 26th-July 1st. CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event comprising of a main conference with presentations, interactive sessions, plenary talks, demos, exhibitions, and social functions, and also 29 workshops and 22 short tutorials. The event gathers students, academics, and industry researchers from all over the world, and is sponsored by leaders in the field of artificial intelligence like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft.
EmoTrain, a startup that competed in the Standard Chartered Women+Tech4NYC Competition, will present their award-winning prototype for a sophisticated facial recognition software. They've created a game that uses artificial intelligence to teach people with Autism how to display emotional responses and respond to others' emotions with empathy. With every user, EmoTrain's technology becomes smarter and smarter. The team expects that the software will become so good at identifying emotions on people's faces that the government would be able to use the software to prevent acts of violence or terrorism.
The EmoTrain team consists of CCNY students Farnaz Abtahi (pursuing her PhD in Computer Science), Wei Li (pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering), and Christina Tsangouri (a junior Computer Science major). We'll be cheering them on every step of the way.