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ICMI 2019: Call for Long and Short Papers
https://icmi.acm.org/2019/index.php?id=cfp
Abstract Submission: May 1, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
Final Submission: May 7, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
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Call for Long and Short Papers
The 21st International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) will be held in Suzhou, China. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community. ICMI 2019 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI 2019 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library.
We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the "novelty" criteria used during ICMI 2019 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted papers at ICMI 2019 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.
Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to children’s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation. Novelty can also be associated to a new usage of an existing approach.
Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors for detailed submission instructions.
This year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme of multi-modal understanding of multi-party interactions. Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Affective computing and interaction
Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
Gesture, touch and haptics
Healthcare, assistive technologies
Human communication dynamics
Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
Interaction with smart environment
Machine learning for multimodal interaction
Mobile multimodal systems
Multimodal behavior generation
Multimodal datasets and validation
Multimodal dialogue modeling
Multimodal fusion and representation
Multimodal interactive applications
Speech behaviors in social interaction
System components and multimodal platforms
Visual behaviors in social interaction
Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction
Important Dates
Abstract Submission
(must include title, authors, abstract) May 1, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
Final Submission
(final submissions -- no updates allowed after May 7) May 7, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
Rebuttal due June 25, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
Paper notification July 7, 2019
Paper camera-ready July 15, 2019 (11:59pm PST)
Presenting at main conference October 14-18, 2019
Best regards,
Social Media Chair ICMI 2019
Zakia Hammal, PhD
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/http://ri.cmu.edu/personal-pages/ZakiaHammal/
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ICMI 2019: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
https://icmi.acm.org/2019/index.php?id=cfc
Submission Deadline: January 14, 2019
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Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
Proposals due January 14, 2019
Proposal notification February 1, 2019
Paper camera-ready August 12, 2019
We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress. We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years. ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible. Challenge papers will be indexed in the proceedings of ICMI.
The grand challenge sessions are still to be confirmed. We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events. We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:
Dataset-driven challenge. This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions. Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weakness.
Use-case challenge. This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.
Health challenge. This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or prevention can be aided by Multimodal Interactions. The challenge should focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual, physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.
Policy challenge. Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal Interaction systems in the age of AI. The challenge could revolve around opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
Title
Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
Length (full day or half day)
Plan for soliciting participation
Description of how submissions (challenge’s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions
Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations, important dates
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on the 2018 challenges are welcome, though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.
Important Dates and Contact Details
Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2019 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Prof Anna Esposito and Dr. Michel Valstar via grandchallenge.ICMI19(a)gmail.com. Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Proposals are due by January 14th, 2019. Notifications will be sent on February 1st, 2019.
Best regards,
Social Media Chair ICMI 2019
Zakia Hammal, PhD
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/http://ri.cmu.edu/personal-pages/ZakiaHammal/
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ICMI 2019: Call for Workshops
https://icmi.acm.org/2019/index.php?id=CfW
Submission Deadline: Saturday, February 16, 2019
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Call for Workshops
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) will be held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, during October 14-18, 2019. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. The theme of the ICMI 2019 conference is Multi-modal Understanding of Multi-party Interactions. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:
Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction
Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology
Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data
Human-Habitat for Health
Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents
Child Computer Interaction
Multimodal Interaction for Education
We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).
The format, style, and content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM.
Submission
Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Hongwei Ding (hwding(a)sjtu.edu.cn), Carlos Busso (busso(a)utdallas.edu) and Tadas Baltrusaitis (tadyla(a)gmail.com). The proposal should include the following:
Workshop title
List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies
Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact
Tentative list of keynote speakers
Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program
Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation
Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)
Paper submission and acceptance deadlines
Special space and equipment requests, if any
Important Dates:
Workshop proposal submission: Saturday, February 16, 2019
Notification of acceptance: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Workshop Date: Monday, October 14, 2019
Best regards,
Social Media Chair ICMI 2019
Zakia Hammal, PhD
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/http://ri.cmu.edu/personal-pages/ZakiaHammal/
