# Matthias won a JSPS Scholaship that took him to the Waseda University in Tokyo to continue his research. # The science magazine Welt der Wunder of a national TV station reported about our project on facial expression recognition. # Matthias had the chance to present his research to Chancellor Angela Merkel during the exhibition "Ideenpark". Research Interests: * model-based image interpretation * model fitting, objective functions, teaching objective functions * face detection, face model fitting, head tracking * facial expression recognition, emotion recognition * gaze tracking, focus of interest * color detection, adaptive skin color classification * person localization, person tracking