Anima Majumder

Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Computer Vision Laboratory

Anima Majumder is a Ph.D scholar at the department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur since Feb 2009. She did her Masters from the department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg., at Shri Guru Govind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology (SGGSIE&T), Nanded  during 2005-2007. She did her M.Tech project in Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited (RBEI) Bangalore during the period August 2006 - February 2007 and thereafter she joined RBEI as a senior software engineer and worked till January 2009.

Her research interests include Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Currently, she is working on Machine Analysis of  Facial Expression and Emotion Recognition.

"Grand challenges like space exploration and weather prediction are expanding human frontiers, but the grandest challenge is the exploration of how we as human beings react to the world and interact with each other. Faces are accessible "windows" into the mechanisms which govern our emotional and social lives. The technological means are now in hand to develop automated systems for monitoring facial expressions and animating artificial models. Face technology of the sort we describe, which is now feasible and achievable within a relatively short time frame, could revolutionize fields as diverse as medicine, law, communications, and education".  ~ Paul Ekman and Terrence J. Sejnowski