Jan. 28 Transition to Virtual Operations, Campus Closed

Bowie State University will be transitioning to virtual operations for all classes and office operations on Wednesday, January 28, 2026. The campus will be closed to all non-essential personnel, and all campus activities are canceled. All buildings except residence halls will be closed. Essential personnel should report on time. This is due to the extended time required to clear the extensive snow and ice accumulation on campus. University crews are making every effort to resume campus operations, as a safe return to in-person learning and work remains our top priority. Only essential personnel and residential students are permitted access to the campus on Jan. 28. For more information, please visit BowieState.edu/weather.

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Department of Computer Science

Computational Perception and Animation Lab (CPAL)

Director

Dr. Jie Yan
Department of Computer Science
jyan@bowiestate.edu

The Computational Perception and Animation Lab (CPAL) is the place where researchers share their ideas, knowledges, and enthusiasm. Its main research agenda is to study the methods for detecting and analyzing facial expressions and affect gestures for system recognition, including the study of realistic emotion and gesture synthesis for an anthropomorphic agent through computer graphics, computer animation and simulation, human-computer interaction, and video image processing. Our research projects explore and expand how people engage with computers, through virtual characters, video games and simulated scenarios. Currently, two research projects are conducting at the lab: 1) American Sign Language recognition and synthesize 2) Multi-view human pose estimation and simulation

animation lab

Graduate Students Working in Lab

  • Tunde Akinlaja
  • Mahfoudh Batarfi

Publications