Irfan A. Essa

Assistant Professor,
College of Computing

He got his B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 1988. After his Bachelor's work, Irfan joined the MIT Media Laboratory as a Research Assistant. Irfan earned his M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, writing a Thesis on physically-based modeling for virtual worlds and vision systems. He worked on his Ph. D. also at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finishing in September 1994. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with visual analysis and interpretation of facial expressions. Irfan has also worked at Thinking Machines and has held several other positions. Prior to joining the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Irfan worked as a Research Scholar at the MIT Media Laboratory.

 His main research interests are in the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, digital multimedia, HCI, neuroscience, cognition and computational modeling.  Irfan is working on developing Interactive Environments with Computational Perception - vision, speech, touch.  In addition, he also works on Image-based Modeling, Rendering and Animation.

In addition to his affiliation to the  GVU Center, Irfan is also affiliated with the Intelligent Systems Group and the Future Computing Environments effort in the College of Computing.  He has founded the Computational Perception Laboratory and also interacts with the Center for Signal and Image Processing, in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Irfan A. Essa
Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280