THIS WEEK - FACIAL RECOGNITION

Elisa Barney Smith is a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at Boise State University in Boise Idaho.
 
Professor Barney’s main research interests are image processing and machine learning. She applies these to document imaging as well as to facilitate image processing for disparate areas from biomedical image processing to materials science research to soil remediation evaluation.
 
Dr. Barney will tell us about a facial recognition project they've been working on. Here's a TedX talk from last June
 
 
Her research in document analysis has includes developing models of the degradations produced during document image acquisition, and analyzing the defects that can be produced by the models, ballot image processing, handwritten Indic script recognition, and historical document image processing. Some of this work was featured in a TEDxBoise talk (available on YouTube).
 
Professor Barney has worked on numerous cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional, national and international project teams. Her expertise has given her invitations as a paid guest scientist at the NATO Saclant Center in Italy, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France, and most recently LORIA in Nancy France and the Technical University Dortmund in Germany. Professor Barney co-authored a textbook on machine learning. She has received NSF, NASA, and industry funding, including a prestigious NSF CAREER award.
Elisa Barney Smith is a member of IAPR and a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE. She is past chair of the IEEE Boise section, past IEEE Region 6’s North East Area chair, and the 2019 & 2020 IEEE (global) Student Activities Committee (SAC) Chair. She is currently an associate editor for Springer’s International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.