Hi everyone,
Some of you may not know that a few months ago Google Scholar introduced a
facility that lets you create a personal page where you can list your
publications and track citations. Like ResearcherID.com, but it covers a
wider range of sources (e.g. books and chapters as well as journals) and
offers citation alerts and so on.
See the explanatory URL:
http://scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/scholar/citations.html
I've already found this useful for a range of reasons. For example, it's
a simpler way of finding out what someone has done than a literature
search, it allows you to follow what former students and colleagues are up
to, you can create alerts for when someone whose work interests you
publishes a paper, or for when a key paper you're interested in gets
cited. I also used it to create pages for Hadyn Ellis and Freda Newcombe,
which may be helpful to anyone who is interested in where current
cognitive and neuropsychological approaches came from.
The downside seems to be that searching the content isn't very effective
at the moment. For example, the keywords 'face perception', 'face
recognition' and 'face processing' will find different sets of people.
But since Google is behind this, I'm guessing this will be improved.
Cheers,
Andy Young.
Dear All. I have had an email (below) from a senior police officer from Cumbria who is interested in 3D modelling of hands. Does anyone have any experience of this, or know of anyone who has? Feel free to contact Richard directly. I think this application is for a court case. Regards, Charlie.
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From: San Jose, Richard [Richard.SanJose(a)cumbria.police.uk]
Sent: 27 March 2012 13:50
To: Charlie Frowd
Subject: Hands
Charlie
Are you aware or do any of your colleagues have knowledge of any research and or applications that we can use within policing to demonstrate position of a persons ‘hands’ on say a persons neck or bottle etc and also the ability to manipulate the fingers to show different positions etc?
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CBAR 2012: CALL FOR PAPERS
SocialCom12 1st International Workshop on CONTEXT BASED AFFECT RECOGNITION
http://contextbasedaffectrecog.blogspot.com/
Submission
Deadline: May 11th, 2012
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The first workshop on "Context Based Affect Recognition" CBAR12
(http://contextbasedaffectrecog.blogspot.com/) wil be held in conjunction with the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing SocialCom2012 (http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialcom/2012/).
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Workshop Description
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The past 20 years has witnessed an increasing number
of efforts for automatic recognition of human affect using facial, vocal, body
as well as physiological signals. Several research
areas could benefit from such systems: interactive teaching systems, which
allow teachers to be aware of student stress and inattention; accident
prevention, such as driver fatigue detection; medical
tools for automatic diagnosis and monitoring such as the diagnosis of cognitive
disorder (e.g. depression, anxiety and autism) and pain assessment. However,
despite the significant amount of research on automatic affect recognition, the
current state of the art has not yet achieved the long-term objective of robust
affect recognition, particularly context based affect analysis and
interpretation. Indeed, it is well known that affect
production is accordingly displayed in a particular context, such as the
undergoing task, the other people involved, the identity and natural
expressiveness of the individual. The context tells us which expressions are
more likely to occur and thus can bias the classifier toward the most
likely/relevant classes. Without context, even humans may misunderstand the
observed facial expression. By tackling the issues of context based affect
recognition, i.e. careful study of contextual information and its relevance in
domain-specific applications, its representation, and its effect on the
performance of existing affect recognition methods, we make a step towards
real-world, real-time affect recognition.
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Workshop Objectives
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Context related affect analysis is still an unexplored area for
automatic affect recognition given the difficulty of modeling this variable and
of its introduction in the classification process. Unconsciously, humans
evaluate situations based on environment and social parameters when recognizing
emotions in social interactions. Contextual information helps us interpret and
respond to social interactions.
The purpose of the workshop is to explore the benefits and drawbacks of
integrating context on affect production, interpretation and recognition. We
wish to investigate what methodologies can be applied to include contextual
information in emotion corpora, how it ought to be represented, what contextual
information are relevant (i.e. is it domain specific or not?), and how it will
improve the performance of existing frameworks for affect recognition.
The workshop is relevant in the study of naturalistic social
interactions since contextual information cannot be discounted in doing
automatic analysis of human behavior. Embedding contextual information, such as
culture, provides a different flavor to each interaction, and makes for an
interesting scientific study. Such kinds of analysis lead us to consider
real-world parameters and complexities in affect recognition, especially in
developing human-centric systems.
For the workshop weinvite scientists
working in related areas of affective computing, ambient computing, machine
learning, psychology and cognitive behavior to share their expertise and
achievements in the emerging field of automatic and context based affect
analysis and recognition.
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Workshop Topics
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New and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the
following topics:
· Context source detection.
· Context interpretation and analysis.
· Context based affect production
· Context based facial affect recognition
· Context based vocal affect recognition
· Context based gesture affect recognition
· Context based multimodal fusion.
· Applications (Context related affect applications).
For details concerning the workshop program, paper submission guidelines, etc. please visit our workshop website at: http://contextbasedaffectrecog.blogspot.com/
Best regards,
Zakia Hammal
Zakia Hammal, PhD
The Robotics
Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
Human-Machine Interaction
Facial Expression Recognition
Visual Perception
http://www.pitt.edu/~emotion/ZakiaHammal.html
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Hi everyone,
does anyone know of a collection of Iraqi faces?
Thanks,
Rachel
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For anyone interested in face perception within / between developmental disorders:
You, or someone you know, might be interested in the following seminar information, therefore please distribute this information as widely as possible
Thanks
Debbie
Seminar Title: Developmental Disorders: co-morbidity, subgroups and variability
On Friday 29th June 2012 there is a one day workshop which discusses co-morbidity, variability and sub-groups within neurodevelopmental disorders being hosted at Kingston University.
This workshop is part of a seminar series entitled 'Neuro-developmental disorders: Exploring sensitive methods of assessment across development' which explores recent findings in neurodevelopmental disorders, with a particular focus on 1) the new research tools and methods used, 2) discussion of the wider applicability of these new tools and methods across different neurodevelopmental disorders, 3) identifying future challenges or controversies when studying neurodevelopmental disorders using a developmental approach.
The seminar series hopes to bring together specialists and established researchers as well as post-graduates, post-doctoral researchers and early career researchers in neurodevelopmental disorders.
The series is sponsored by the British Psychological Society and the Williams syndrome Foundation UK and is being organised by Dr Jo van Herwegen, Dr Emily Farran and Dr Debbie Riby. In total three seminars will be held around the UK between June 2012 and April 2013.
More information about the seminar series can be obtained from:
http://www.neurodevelopmentaldisorders-seminarseries.co.uk/
Dr Debbie Riby
School of Psychology
Newcastle University
Ridley Building 1
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
deborah.riby(a)ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/psychology/staff/profile/deborah.riby#tab_profile
