Matei Mancas
Visual attention & AI
Short Bio:
Matei got a PhD in Applied Sciences from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (now within the University of Mons - UMONS, Belgium) end of 2007. Matei is interested in human perception and more precisely in human attention/interest from an engineering point of view: how to analyze, predict & enhance people attention?
FROM RESEARCH … Matei’s research focuses on computational modelling of attention. This mechanism is used by humans to select “important” features in images, videos or sounds. Matei assumes that computational attention is a step towards true artificial intelligence and it should be used in every algorithm which intends to have an intelligent behaviour. He is interested in bringing attention algorithms into real-life for diverse applications (People interest for marketing optimization, Audio-video abnormal event detection for surveillance, …). Matei is involved or/and organized several meetings, conferences and workshops. He also has an editorial work (books, journals, conferences).
… TO APPLICATIONS Matei is strongly involved in technology transfer. He is working on visual communication optimization for marketing through the company Ittention that he founded : http://www.ittention.com
More to come …
