Dr. Dvijesh Shastri

Research Assistant Professor

Telephone:	713-743-4581
Fax:	713-743-3355
e-mail:	dshastri@uh.edu
Office:	366 Phillip G Hoffman Hall
Mail:	Dvijesh Shastri University of Houston Department of Computer Science 4800 Calhoun Rd. 501 Phillip G. Hoffman Houston, TX 77204-3010
CV:	D_Shastri_CV.pdf
Responsibilities:	Computational psychophysiology research, supervision of students, and interaction with government agencies.

Research Interest and Projects

My main research interests are in computational psychology, human-computer interaction, and methods for quantification of emotional perspiration. I am heavily involved in the Stress project.

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

[J29] New! Perinasal Imaging of Physiological Stress and Its Affective Potential D. Shastri, M. Papadakis, P. Tsiamyrtzis, B. Bass, and I. Pavlidis IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, July 2012. [Impact Factor: TBA] Manuscript: Size: 1.37 MB
[J28] Fast by Nature - How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks I. Pavlidis, P. Tsiamyrtzis, D. Shastri, A. Wesley, Y. Zhou, P. Lindner, P. Buddharaju, R. Joseph, A. Mandapati, B. Dunkin, and B. Bass NATURE Scientific Reports, vol. 2, March 2012. [Impact Factor: TBA], [Citations]
[J22] Imaging facial signs of neurophysiological responses D. Shastri, A. Merla, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 477-84, February 2009. [Impact Factor: 2.347], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 1003.52 Kb
[J16] Imaging facial physiology for the detection of deceit P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M.G. Frank, and P. Ekman International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 197-214, February 2007. [Impact Factor: 6.986], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 717.86 Kb

Refereed Conference Papers

[C65] New! Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of the Breathing Function D. Duong, D. Shastri, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012. [Acceptance Rate: 31.8%] Manuscript: Size: 1.01 MB
[C60] Who said monitoring is boring? P. Buddharaju, D. Shastri, A. Mandapati, S. Vaidya, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Vancouver, British Columbia, May 2011. [Acceptance Rate: 43.0%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 1.59 MB
[C58] A novel method to monitor driver’s distractions A. Wesley, D. Shastri, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 57%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 710.34 Kb
[C56] O job, can you return my mojo? Improving human engagement and enjoyment in routine activities D. Shastri, Y. Fujiki, R. Buffington, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 22%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 916.75 Kb
[C53] Automatic Initiation of the Periorbital Signal Extraction in Thermal Imagery D. Shastri, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Genoa, Italy, September 2009. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 508.29 Kb
[C52] A method for monitoring operator overloading D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, and A. Wesley Proceedings of HCI International, San Diego, California, Julie A. Jacko, editors, vol. 5610, Springer, pp. 169-175, July 2009. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 10.22 MB
[C49] O'game, can you feel my frustration? Improving user's gaming experience via stress-cam C. Yun, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, and Z. Deng Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Boston, Massachusetts, April 2009. [Acceptance Rate: 25.0%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 1.99 MB
[C45] Periorbital thermal signal extraction and applications D. Shastri, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, pp. 102-5, August 2008. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 323.11 Kb
[C43] Imaging facial signs of neuro-physiological responses D. Shastri, A. Merla, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention-MICCAI, Brisbane, Australia, October 2007. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 1002.10 Kb
[C27] Automatic THErmal MOnitoring System (ATHEMOS) for deception detection P. Buddharaju, J. Dowdall, P. Tsiamyrtzis, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, and M. G. Frank Video Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Diego, California, June 2005. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 40.38 MB

Invited Conference Papers

[I6] Lie detection - recovery of the periorbital signal through tandem tracking and noise suppression in thermal facial video P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M.G. Frank, and P. Ekman Proceedings of SPIE Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense IV, E. M. Carapezza, editors, vol. 5778, Orlando, Florida, March 2005 Manuscript: Size: 607.18 Kb

[I6] Lie detection - recovery of the periorbital signal through tandem tracking and noise suppression in thermal facial video
P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M.G. Frank, and P. Ekman
Proceedings of SPIE Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense IV, E. M. Carapezza, editors, vol. 5778, Orlando, Florida, March 2005
Manuscript:

Size: 607.18 Kb

Conference Abstracts

[A7] Lie detection: recovery of the periorbital signal through tandem tracking and noise suppression in thermal facial video P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M. G. Frank, and P. Ekman Abstracts of the 22nd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston, Texas, February 2005 Manuscript: Size: 9.04 Kb

[A7] Lie detection: recovery of the periorbital signal through tandem tracking and noise suppression in thermal facial video
P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M. G. Frank, and P. Ekman
Abstracts of the 22nd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston, Texas, February 2005
Manuscript:

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Technical Reports

[T6] Imaging facial physiology for the detection of deceit P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, and I. Pavlidis Technical Report UH-CS-05-25, Computer Science Department, University of Houston, November 2005 Manuscript: Size: 1019.31 Kb

[T6] Imaging facial physiology for the detection of deceit
P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, and I. Pavlidis
Technical Report UH-CS-05-25, Computer Science Department, University of Houston, November 2005
Manuscript:

Size: 1019.31 Kb