Title: Physiological Emotion Recognition: From Technique Development to Applications
Speaker: Professor Pau-Choo Chung, National Cheng Kung University

　　Physiological signals have been considered the most genuine responses in the detection of emotions and therefore have commonly applied by psychologists for emotion recognition. Due to its high reliability in reflecting genuine affection, current affective computing suggests physiological signals as one promising approach. In this talk, an overview introduction of emotion recognition from physiological signals will be introduced. This will include the emotion models commonly adopted in psychologists, the evolution of the commonly adopted approaches in applying physiological signals for emotion detection and the dilemma we may encounter. Several potential applications from emotion intelligence will also be introduced. As the current high pressure social pattern causes psycho-therapy impending, this talk will also discuss about how physiological emotion recognition can be applied in helping therapy process.

Biography:

　　Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University, USA, in 1991. She then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, and has become a full professor since 1996. She served as the Vice Director, and then the Director, of the Center for Research of E-life Digital Technology, NCKU during 2001-2008. She was also the Director of Electrical Laboratory, NCKU in 2005-2008. She was selected as Distinguished Professor of NCKU in 2005. Currently she is the Director of Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, NCKU, Taiwan.

　　Dr. Chung’s research interests include image/signal analysis and pattern recognition, computer vision, video image processing/analysis, neural networks, telemedicine, and multimedia processing. Particularly she applies most of her research results on medical and healthcare applications. She received many awards, such as the annual best paper award in Chinese Journal Radiology 2001, the best paper awards from World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI) 2001 and International Computer Symposium (ICS) 1998, Acer’s Best Research Award in 1994 and 1995, the best paper awards from the Conference of Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (CVGIP), in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2001, Best Research Young Innovator Award of National Science Council, Taiwan, in 1999. Dr. Chung has served as the program committee member in many international conferences. She is the chair of the IEEE Life Science Systems and Applications Technical Committee (2008 and 2009), and member of the IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communication Technical Committee, the IEEE Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee, and the Multimedia Systems & Applications Technical Committee in the CASS. Currently she is also serving as the Associate Editor of Journal of Information Science and Engineering, the Guest Editor of Journal of High Speed Network, She served as the Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, a Member on IEEE International Steering Committee, IEEE Asian Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. She was the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Tainan Chapter (2005-2006), and the Secretary General of Biomedical Engineering Society of the Republic of China (2005-2006). She was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of CASS (2006-2007). She is currently a member in BoG (Board of Governor) of IEEE CAS Society (2007-2009) and an ADCOM administrative committee member in IEEE CIS Society (2009-2011).