Dr. Hongying Meng

Dr. Hongying Meng is a lecturer at Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of Brunel University (West London, UK). Before that, he held research positions in several UK universities including University College London (UCL), University of York and University of Southampton. He is a honorary research associate of UCL. His research interests include affective computing, digital signal processing, machine learning, computer vision and embedded systems. He is especially interested in emotional states recognition, facial expression analysis, multi-model interaction, movement modelling and computer games. His work entitled "Naturalistic Affective Expression Classification by a Multi-Stage Approach Based on Hidden Markov Models" on emotion recognition has won the audio sub-challenge of First International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC2011) at international conference ACII2011, Memphis, USA in 2011. Detailed information can be found from his official webpage http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sed/ece/people/dr-hongying-meng.