NSF funding behavioral imaging research for autism diagnosis

A Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) press release announced that Professor Takeo Kanade will lead an effort at CMU to study behavioral imaging for diagnosis of austism. In the research, computer vision will be used to analyze eye gaze, facial expression, and body posture to determine whether early signs of autism can be identified in young children. According to Kanade, "We aim at developing a new suite of technologies for imaging and understanding human behaviors, or behavior imaging. Just as medical imaging revolutionalized medicine and science for the body and its actions, behavior imaging will revolutionalize medicine and science for the mind and its activities."

NSF's $10 million Computational Behavioral Science Project is led by Georgia Tech and includes, in addition to CMU, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Southern California (USC), Boston University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).