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My research interests are in applied machine learning, computer vision, data science and their applications to education, affective computing, and human behavior recognition. My work is highly interdisciplinary and frequently intersects cognitive science, psychology, and education. Before joining WPI, I was a research scientist at the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University. In 2012, I co-founded Emotient, a San Diego-based startup company for automatic emotion and facial expression recognition. I also love teaching and have lectured, mentored, and tutored students in the USA, South Africa, Rwanda, and Germany.
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My research interests are in applied machine learning, computer vision, data science and their applications to education, affective computing, and human behavior recognition. My work is highly interdisciplinary and frequently intersects cognitive science, psychology, and education. Before joining WPI, I was a research scientist at the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University. In 2012, I co-founded Emotient, a San Diego-based startup company for automatic emotion and facial expression recognition. I also love teaching and have lectured, mentored, and tutored students in the USA, South Africa, Rwanda, and Germany.
Scholarly Work
The computer expression recognition toolbox (CERT) G Littlewort, J Whitehill, T Wu, I Fasel, M Frank, J Movellan, M Bartlett Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops (FG 2011), 2011 IEEE ...
Monocular head pose estimation using generalized adaptive view-based appearance model LP Morency, J Whitehill, J Movellan Image and Vision Computing 28 (5), 754-761
Exploiting structure in crowdsourcing tasks via latent factor models P Ruvolo, J Whitehill, JR Movellan Technical Report TR2010. 01, Machine Perception Laboratory
Insights on spontaneous facial expressions from automatic expression measurement M Bartlett, G Littlewort, J Whitehill, E Vural, T Wu, K Lee, A Erçil, M Cetin, ... Dynamic Faces: Insights from Experiments and Computation, 211-238
Toward practical smile detection J Whitehill, G Littlewort, I Fasel, M Bartlett, J Movellan IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 31 (11), 2106 ...
Whose vote should count more: Optimal integration of labels from labelers of unknown expertise J Whitehill, T Wu, J Bergsma, JR Movellan, PL Ruvolo Advances in neural information processing systems, 2035-2043