Publications
2011
Jeffrey Berry, Sunjing Ji, Ian Fasel, Diana Archangeli, "Articulatory Reduction in Mandarin Chinese Words", Interspeech 2011.
Nassim Mafi, Farnaz Abtahi, Ian Fasel, "Information Theoretic Reward Shaping for Curiosity Driven Learning in POMDPs", International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), August 2011. (pdf)
Farnaz Abtahi, Ian Fasel, "Deep Belief Nets as Function Approximators for Reinforcement Learning”, International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), August 2011.
Iris Oved, Ian Fasel, "Philosophically Inspired Concept Acquisition for Artificial General Intelligence", Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), 2011. (pdf)
Raquel Torres Peralta, Tasneem Kaochar, Ian Fasel, Clayton Morrison, Thomas Walsh, Paul Cohen, "Challenges to Decoding the Intention Behind Natural Instruction", IEEE Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), 2011.
Antons Rebguns, Daniel Ford, Ian Fasel, "InfoMax Control for Acoustic Exploration of Objects by a Mobile Robot", AAAI Workshop on Lifelong Learning, 2011.
Farnaz Abtahi, Ian Fasel, "Deep Belief Nets as Function Approximators for Reinforcement Learning", AAAI Workshop on Lifelong Learning, 2011.
Walter Talbott, Ian Fasel, Javier Rodriquez Molina, Virginia de Sa, & Javier Movellan, “Coordinating Touch and Vision to Learn What Objects Look Like”. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2011. (pdf)
Raquel Torres Peralta, Tasneem Kaochar, Ian Fasel, Clayton Morrison, Thomas Walsh, Paul Cohen "Challenges to Decoding the Intention Behind Natural Instruction (Extended Abstract)" IJCAI Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers, 2011. Best Presentation Award
Tasneem Kaochar, Raquel Torres Peralta, Clayton T. Morrison, Ian R. Fasel, Thomas J. Walsh and Paul R. Cohen, "Towards Understanding How Humans Teach Robots", User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2011.
Raquel Torres Peralta, Kobus Barnard, Ian Fasel, "Gesture based user recognition for table top devices", International Graphonomics Society (IGS), 2011.
Jeff Berry, Ian Fasel, "Dynamics of tongue gestures extracted automatically from ultrasound", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011.
Gwen Littlewort, Jacob Whitehill, Tingfan Wu, Ian Fasel, Mark Frank, Javier Movellan, and Marian Bartlett, "The Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox (CERT)", Ninth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2011.
Tasneem Kaochar, Raquel Torres Peralta, Clayton T. Morrison, Thomas J. Walsh, Ian R. Fasel, Sumin Beyon, Anh Tran, Jeremy Wright and Paul R. Cohen, "Human Natural Instruction of a Simulated Electronic Student", AAAI Spring Symposium 'Help Me Help You', 2011. (pdf)
2010
Ian Fasel, Andrew Wilt, Nassim Mafi, Clayton Morrison, “Intrinsically Motivated Information Foraging”. International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), August 2010. (pdf)
N. Michael Mayer, Ian Fasel, “Autism as an impairment in detecting invariants”. International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), August 2010. (pdf)
Ian Fasel, Jeff Berry, “Deep Belief Networks for Real-Time Extraction of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound During Speech”. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), August 2010. (pdf)
Jeff Berry, Diana Archangeli, Ian Fasel. “Automatic Classification of Tongue Gestures in Ultrasound Images“. Laboratory Phonology 12, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2010. (pdf of the poster)
N. Michael Mayer, Ian Fasel, "A simple neuronal autism model based on sensory invariants." Accepted to Nineteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2010, San Antonio, TX, 24-30 July 2010, (pdf).
Paul Ruvolo, Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan. “A Learning Approach to Hierarchical Feature Selection and Aggregation for Audio Classification”. Pattern Recognition Letters (2010). (pdf)
2009
Ian Fasel, Masahiro Shiomi, Pilippe-Emmanuel Chadutaud, Takayuki Kanda, Norihiro Hagita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, “Multi-Modal Features for Real-Time Detection of Human-Robot Interaction Categories”, ICMI-MLMI, Cambridge, MA 2009 (pdf).
Fabio Dalla Libera, Takashi Minato, Ian Fasel, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Enrico Pagello, and Emanuele Menegatti, “A new paradigm of humanoid robot motion programming based on touch interpretation”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 57(8) pp.846-859, 2009. (pdf)
I. Fasel, Paul Ruvolo, Tingfan Wu, Javier Movellan, “Infomax Control for Social Robots”, in Probabilistic Approaches for Robotics and Control (PARC), NIPS 2009 Workshop. (pdf)
C. Morrison, D. Bryce, I. Fasel, and A. Rebguns. "Augmenting Instructable Computing with Planning Technology", ICAPS'09 Workshop on the International Competition for Knowledge Engineering in Planning and Scheduling, 2009. (pdf)
Ian R. Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, “Segmental Boltzmann Fields”. (manuscript)
Jacob Whitehill, Gwen Littlewort, Ian Fasel, Marian Bartlett, Javier Movellan, "Toward Practical Smile Detection," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, pp. 2106-2111, November, 2009 (pdf).
Micah Eckhardt, Ian R. Fasel, and Javier R. Movellan. Towards Practical Facial Feature Detection. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), 23(3) pp. 379-400, 2009. (pdf)
Ian Fasel, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. A Task Specification Language for Bootstrap Learning. In AAAI Spring 2009 Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, March 2009. (pdf)
W. Bradley Knox, Ian Fasel, and Peter Stone. Design Principles for Creating Human-Shapable Agents. In AAAI Spring 2009 Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, March 2009. (pdf)
Ian Fasel, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. A General Task Specification Language for Bootstrap Learning (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2009), May 2009 (pdf).
2008
Ian R. Fasel, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. A general purpose task specification language for bootstrap learning. Technical Report AI-08-1, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2008.
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Auditory mood detection for social and educational robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena CA, 2008. (pdf)
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Optimization on a Budget: A Reinforcement Learning Approach, Neural Information Processing Symposium (NIPS), Vancouver BC, 2008. (pdf) (video lecture)
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Tuning Optimizers for Time-Constrained Problems using Reinforcement Learning, in Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT2008), NIPS 2008 Workshop (pdf)
2007
Ian R. Fasel, Nicholas Butko and Javier R. Movellan, Computational Analysis of the Face Learning Problem in Neonates. In Modeling the Embodiment of Early Social Development and Social Interaction session of the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (SRCD), 2007 (pdf)
Fabio Dalla Libera, Takashi Minato, Ian Fasel, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Emanuele Menegatti, and Enrico Pagello. Teaching by touching: an intuitive method for development of humanoid robot motions. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007. (pdf)
Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Ian R. Fasel, Cynthia Taylor, Paul Ruvolo and Micah Eckhardt, The RUBI Project: A Progress Report, in: 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2007 (pdf)
Kevin Gold, Ian Fasel, Nathan Freier and Cristen Torrey, Young Researchers’ Views on the Current and Future State of HRI, in: 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2007 (pdf)
2006
Ian R. Fasel, Learning to Detect Objects in Real-Time: Probabilistic Generative Approaches, PhD thesis, UCSD, June 2006 (pdf)
Nicholas J. Butko, Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Learning about Humans during the First 6 Minutes of Life, in: International Conference on Development and Learning, Indiana, 2006
Littlewort, G., Bartlett, M., Fasel, I., Susskind, J., and Movellan, J. (2006). Dynamics of facial expression extracted automatically from video. Image and Vision Computing 24(6), p. 615-625. (pdf)
Bartlett, M.S., Littlewort, G.C., Frank, M.G., Lainscsek,C., Fasel, I., Movellan, J.R. (2006) “Automatic Recognition of Facial Actions in Spontaneous Expressions”, Journal of Multimedia, 1(6), p. 22-35. (pdf)
Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gwen Littlewort, Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, A method for Microanalysis of Facial Expressions, US Patent Pending, 2006
Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gwen C. Littlewort, Claudia Lainscsek, Ian Fasel, M. G. Frank and Javier R. Movellan, Fully automatic facial action recognition in spontaneous behavior, in: 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pp. 223–228, 2006 (pdf)
2005
Ian R. Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Weakly-supervised robust, real-time object detection and localization., in: NIPS Workshop on Automatic Discovery of Object Categories, December 2005 (pdf)
Ian Fasel, Bret Fortenberry and Javier R. Movellan, “A generative framework for real-time object detection and classification”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 98, 2005 (pdf)
Marian Stewart Bartlett, G. Littelwort, M. G. Frank, Claudia Lainscsek, Ian Fasel and J. Movellan, Recognizing Facial Expression: Machine Learning and Application to Spontaneous Behavior, in: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 568–573, Osaka, Japan, 2005 (pdf)
2004
Gwen Littlewort, Marian Stewart Bartlett, J. Chenu, Ian Fasel, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Javier R. Movellan, Towards social robots: Automatic evaluation of human-robot interaction by face detection and expression classification, in: Advances in neural information processing systems, volume 16, pp. 1563–1570, Cambridge, MA, 2004. MIT Press (pdf)
Gwen C. Littlewort, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Ian Fasel, J. Chenu, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Javier R. Movellan, Facial Expression in Social Interactions: Automatic Evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction, in: Proceedings of the second international conference on development and learning (ICDL04), The Salk Institute, San Diego, October 20, 2004 (pdf)
Takayuki Kanda, Nicolas Miralles, Masayuki Shiomi, Takahiro Miyashita, Ian Fasel, Javier R. Movellan and Hiroshi Ishiguro, “Face-to-face interactive humanoid robot”, IEEE 2004 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004 (pdf)
Javier R. Movellan, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gwen Ford Littlewort, Ian Fasel, John Hershey, Josh Susskind and Eric Carlson, A method for Automatic Face Detection and Expression Recognition, US Patent Application 10/871,494, Japan Application, 2004
Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gwen Littlewort, Claudia Lainscsek, Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Machine Learning Methods for Fully Automatic Recognition of Facial Expressions and Facial Actions, in: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, The Hague, Netherlands, October 2004 (pdf)
Gwen Littlewort, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Ian Fasel, J. Susskind and Javier R. Movellan, Dynamics of Facial Expression Extracted Automatically from Video, in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop on Face Processing in Video, 2004 (pdf)
2003
Marian Stewart Bartlett, Gwen Littlewort, Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Real time face detection and expression recognition: Development and application to human-computer interaction, in: CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction. 2003
2002
Ian R Fasel, Gedeon O Deák, Jochen Triesch and Javier Movellan, Combining Embodied Models and Empirical Research for Understanding the Development of Shared Attention, in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning, 2002 (pdf)
Ian R. Fasel, Marian S. Bartlett and Javier Movellan, “A comparison of Gabor filter methods for automatic detection of facial landmarks”, Proceedings of Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2002 (pdf)
Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Object Detection as a Markov Decision Process, in: Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Neural Computation. California Institute of Technology, May 2002
Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, Comparison of Neurally Inspired Face Detection Algorithms, in: Proceedings of the international conference on artificial neural networks (ICANN) 2002 (pdf)
Gwen Littlewort, Ian Fasel, Marian Stewart Bartlett and Javier R. Movellan, Real Time Fully Automatic Coding of Facial Expressions From Video, in: Proceedings of the 9th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, 2002
2001
G. O. Deak, Ian R. Fasel and Javier R. Movellan, The emergence of shared attention: using robots to test developmental theories, in: Balkenius, (ed.), Proceedings of the first international workshop on epigenetic robotics: modeling cognitive development, pp. 95–104. Lund University Cognitive Studies, Lund, Sweden, 2001 (pdf)
Ian R Fasel, John Hershey and Javier Movellan, Active Sampling in High Dimensions for Face Detection, in: Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Neural Computation, La Jolla, CA, 2001
Ian R Fasel and Tim K Marks, Smile and Wave: A Comparison of Gabor Representations for Facial Expression Recognition, in: Proceedings of the 8th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, San Diego, CA, 2001
1999
Ian R Fasel, Kurt D Bollacker and Joydeep Ghosh, “A neural network based classification and real-time biofeedback system for clarinet tone-quality improvement”, Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference for Neural Networks, 1999 (pdf)
