Daniel Gatica-Perez

Professor
Social Computing Group
IDIAP Research Institute
Switzerland

Professor Engineering
Biography

I am Professeur Titulaire at EPFL and direct the Social Computing Group at Idiap. I am a faculty member of the School of Engineering (STI) and the College of Humanities (CDH), where I am member of the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI). My research integrates theories and methods from ubiquitous computing, social media, machine learning, and social sciences to understand human behavior in daily life and to create applications for social good. My current research interests include: * Mobile crowdsourcing and social media analytics for social good. * Crowdsourcing for cities. * Social video analytics, with focus on conversational behavior. * Ubiquitous computing in face-to-face interaction. * Analysis of ancient Maya hieroglyphic collections. My recent research has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation, the European Commission, and industry partners including Nokia, NTT, and Swiss startups.

Research Intrest

Social computing, social media, ubiquitous computing, crowdsourcing, machine learning.

List of Publications
Can G, Odobez JM, Gatica-Perez D. Shape Representations for Maya Codical Glyphs: Knowledge-driven or Deep?. In15th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing 2017 (No. EPFL-CONF-229209).
Gatica-Perez D, Can G, Hu R, Marchand-Maillet S, Odobez JM, Pallan Gayol C, Roman-Rangel E(2017) MAAYA: Multimedia Methods to Support Maya Epigraphic Analysis. INAH-RedTDPC.
Labhart F, Santani D, Truong J, Tarsetti F, Bornet O, Landolt S, Gatica-Perez D, Kuntsche E(2017) Development of the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method for recruiting urban nightlife-goers in an entire city. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 11:1-6.
Hu R, Odobez JM, Gatica-Perez D (2017) Extracting Maya Glyphs from Degraded Ancient Documents via Image Segmentation. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)10:10
Santani D, Ruiz-Correa S, Gatica-Perez D. Insiders and Outsiders: Comparing Urban Impressions between Population Groups. InProceedings of the 2017 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2017 Jun 6 (pp. 65-71). ACM.
Quelhas P, Monay F, Odobez JM, Gatica-Perez D, Tuytelaars T, Van Gool L. Modeling scenes with local descriptors and latent aspects. InComputer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference on 2005 Oct 17 (Vol. 1, pp. 883-890). IEEE.

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