Welcome to the IHP Lab

This is the homepage for our lab led by Prof. Mohammad Soleymani. We are also affiliated with the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the Computer Science Department, USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

Our research focuses on recognizing and generating human behaviors, social signals and emotions. To this end, we perform multimodal machine learning to analyze verbal and nonverbal behaviors. Our ongoing research include generative AI, multimodal machine learning, mental health assessment, multimodal interaction and facial expression analysis. To know more about our research, you can check our research page.

If you are interested in joining our lab please check ** (this page.) **!

Disclaimer: This website is maintained by Mohammad Soleymani and is not an official USC website

News

December 2025

One paper accepted to FG 2026 (round 1).

November 2025

One paper accepted to WACV 2026 (round 2).

September 2025

One paper accepted to WACV 2026 (round 1).

July 2025

Minh Tran has succesfully defended his thesis.

June 2025

One paper accepted to ICCV 2025.

May 2025

One paper accepted to INTERPSEECH 2025.

April 2025

One article accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

February 2025

One paper accepted to CVPR 2025.

August 2024

We welcome our new PhD students Ashutosh Chaubey, Zhangyu Jin Kevin Joo and Zongjian Li.

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