Research Interests
Dr. Guo is interested in solving Computer Vision and Biometrics problems using learning based techniques. The problems that he has worked on include face recognition, facial expression recognition, iris recognition, age estimation, soft biometrics, human action recognition, etc. He is also interested in using computational technologies for smart health applications, e.g., computational BMI estimation, behavior monitoring for low back pain, etc.
Recent Awards and Honors
Our Computer Vision Group at WVU is ranked among the top 3 in the Competition of “2015 Looking at People ICCV Challenge”, Track 1 (apparent age estimation), will be awarded in December 2015, in conjunction with ICCV'15
Our paper published in the IEEE Conf. on FG’15 was selected as one of “The Best of Face and Gesture 2015”
Outstanding Researcher, 2013-2014, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University
Our paper published in the Image and Vision Computing Journal was ranked #7 among 25 of the “Most Downloaded Image and Vision Computing Articles”, accessed on August 20, 2014 (evidence)
Our paper published in the Pattern Recognition Journal was ranked #5 among 24 of the “Most Downloaded Pattern Recognition Articles”, accessed on August 20, 2014 (evidence)
“People’s Hero of the Week”, selected by the Broadband and Social Justice Blog under the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC), June 16, 2013
Our paper on spinal loading assessment published in the IEEE Sensors Journal was certified as one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers (from about 1000 papers in total) in the months of March and April, 2013
Our paper published in the IEEE Conf. on FG’13 was selected as one of “The Best of Face and Gesture 2013”
Outstanding New Researcher of the Year, 2010-2011, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University
NC Space New Investigation Award, 2008-2009
North Carolina State Award for Excellence in Innovation, 2008
News Reports on My Research
The BMI prediction work published in the journal of Image and Vision Computing (IVC) has been reported in the News, e.g., New Scientist,and many others.
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Research and STEM Education Exhibits
“Face Recognition with Kinect,” showed in the BTAS’13 conference, Washington DC, September 29 to October 2, 2013
“Robust Face Recognition with the Depth Perception Camera,” exhibited at NSF STEM Careers Fair -- “Change the World, Science & Engineering Careers Fair”, Dulles Town Center Mall, VA, Sept. 27 – 28, 2013
“Face Recognition with the RGB-D Sensor,” demonstrated at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree to 30,000 Scouts, New River Gorge Region, West Virginia, July 17 – 23, 2013
Some Data free for Research
Labeled fiducial points in faces for aging and expression study
Aging database partition into three sets
Special Issues on Biometrics
Call for papers for a special issue on Mobile Biometrics, due: March 31, 2015. The CFP and the online link can be accessed here.
Call for papers for a special issue on Soft Biometrics, due: December 31, 2014 (extended). The CFP is here, and the online link is here.