October 2019 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

CFP: FGAHI@CVPR 2019, 2nd International Workshop on Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics
by zakia hammal 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Apologies for cross-posting *********************************************************************************** FGAHI 2019: CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Workshop on Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics Accepted papers will be published at the CVF open access archive. Submission Deadline Extended: May 1st, 2019. The camera-ready deadline: May 15th, 2019. *********************************************************************************** The 2d International Workshop on Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics (FGAHI 2019) will be held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2019 on June 16th - June 21st, Long Beach, CA. For details concerning the workshop program, paper submission, and guidelines please visit our workshop website at: http://fgahi2019.isir.upmc.fr/ Best regards, Zakia Hammal 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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UK researchers - voter registration proposals
by Peter Hancock 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

This message is probably only of relevance to UK-based researchers, though people from other countries may have relevant comments, depending on how you vote. The UK Government is proposing to introduce a requirement to take photo-id to polling stations in order to vote. Apart from the issue of potentially excluding people who don't currently have such an id (the most disadvantaged in society, mainly) there is the problem that we know that photo id doesn't really work. Can I invite UK-based researchers to contact their MPs to explain the evidence that it is not reliable? If enough of us do, they might have a rethink. Peter My messages may arrive outside of the working day but this does not imply any expectation that you should reply outside of your normal working hours. If you wish to respond, please do so when convenient. Peter Hancock Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/11587 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Latest paper: Eye see through you! Eye tracking unmasks concealed face recognition despite countermeasures https://rdcu.be/bNlKn<%20https:/rdcu.be/bNlKn>

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Dark Triad faces
by Ferenc Kocsor 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Dear Colleagues, We started a cross-cultural research on perception of faces of individuals high or low on the Dark Triad scales. We would be grateful if you shared the link on social media or mailing lists. The English version is available here: http://bit.ly/DTenglish We also have a version in Hebrew. It is extremely difficult for us to collect a sample of appropriate size, so help from colleagues in Israel are especially appreciated. You can share this link: http://bit.ly/DThebrew Thanks in advance *Ferenc Kocsor, PhD* research associate Institute of Psychology <Pszichológia Intézet> | Faculty of Humanites <Bölcsészettudományi Kar> | University of Pécs <https://outlook.office.com/mail/inbox/id/AAQkADkzOGM4ZjhhLTkyZmEtNGUyNC1iYj…> | evolutionpsychology.com <evoluciospszichologia.hu>

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Society for Affective Science 2020 Conference!
by Jolie Wormwood 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

Greetings, I hope this message finds you well! I am writing to you regarding the Society for Affective Science and its annual meeting, which will take place at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, CA on April 23-25, 2020. As a regular attendee and a member of the membership and outreach committee, I encourage you and your trainees and students to attend! Personally, I and my students have found SAS to be an excellent venue for presenting research, and we find the interdisciplinary nature of the program to be uniquely beneficial. Below, I outline exciting highlights from the upcoming meeting and opportunities for you and your students to submit abstracts for symposia, flash talks or posters. Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope to see you at the 2020 SAS meeting! All the best, Jolie Jolie Baumann Wormwood, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology 422 McConnell Hall 15 Academic Way Durham, NH 03824 —— *SAS 2020 Registration and Call for Abstracts* *San Francisco, CaliforniaParc 55 HotelApril 23-25, 2020* The Society for Affective Science (SAS) is pleased to announce its call for submissions of abstracts to be considered for its 2020 Annual Conference. The 2020 SAS conference will take place at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, CA on April 23-25, 2020. *Program Highlights* We’re excited to announce that this year's program includes a Presidential Symposium on affect in politics featuring Morteza Dehghani, Nathan Kalmoe and Robb Willer, TED style talks by Lasana Harris, Dacher Keltner, Kristin Lagattuta, Mathew Nock, and Jamil Zaki, and Invited Flash Talks by James Cavanaugh, Aaron Heller, Lori Hoggard, Jessica Lougheed, Emily Mower Provost, Nilam Ram, Gal Sheppes, and Yukiko Uchida. Presentations will be featured in an interesting array of sessions of varying formats. *Abstract Submission Formats* We welcome abstract submissions that describe new research within the domain of affective science. In line with our goal to facilitate interdisciplinary advances, we welcome submissions from affective scientists in any discipline (e.g., anthropology, business, computer science, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, integrative medicine, law, linguistics, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public health, sociology, theatre), working on a broad range of topics using a variety of measures. *Authors at all career stages – trainees, junior faculty, and senior faculty – are encouraged to submit an abstract according to three presentation formats as follows:* 1. A *poster* on any topic within the domain of affective science 2. A *flash talk* showcasing affective science research (open to all career stages and disciplines). 3. A *Symposia* providing an in-depth perspective on individual research areas/topics within affective science. *This is a NEW submission format that we are excited to offer for SAS 2020!* *Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts* Abstracts must be submitted by Friday, November 8, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12 --- the last timezone before the date line) to be considered for inclusion in the program. Please review the *abstract submission instructions <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__society-2Dfor-2Daffect…>* carefully. *Selection Process* Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scholarly merit by blind peer review. Poster and Flash Talk abstracts with trainees (i.e., postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, post-baccalaureate, undergraduate student) as first author will be considered for an award based on further in-person evaluation at the conference. Awards will be announced at the conference during the closing ceremony. All presenters must register and pay to attend the meeting. Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts will be e-mailed to the corresponding author by mid-January 2020. Presenters must be the first author on the submitted abstract. *We hope to see you at SAS 2020 in San Francisco!*

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Call For Chapters and dataset release! | Neural and Machine Learning for Emotion and Empathy Recognition: Experiences from the OMG-Challenges by Springer
by Pablo Barros 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for the upcoming volume entitled “Neural and Machine Learning for Emotion and Empathy Recognition: Experiences from the OMG-Challenges” to be published by the Springer Series on Competitions in Machine Learning. Our book will be available by mid-2020. Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/OMGBook2019 Follows a short description of our volume: Emotional expression perception and categorization are extremely popular in the affective computing community. However, the inclusion of emotions in the decision-making process of an agent is not considered in most of the research in this field. To treat emotion expressions as the final goal, although necessary, reduces the usability of such solutions in more complex scenarios. To create a general affective model to be used as a modulator for learning different cognitive tasks, such as modeling intrinsic motivation, creativity, dialog processing, grounded learning, and human-level communication, instantaneous emotion perception cannot be the pivotal focus. This book aims to present recent contributions for multimodal emotion recognition and empathy prediction which take into consideration the long-term development of affective concepts. In this regard, we provide access to two datasets: OMG-Emotion Behavior Recognition and OMG-Empathy Prediction datasets. These datasets were designed, collected and formalized to be used on the OMG-Emotion Recognition Challenge and the OMG-Empathy Prediction challenge, respectively. All the participants of our challenges are invited to submit their contribution to our book. We also invite interested authors to use our datasets on the development of inspiring and innovative research on affective computing. By formatting these solutions and editing this book, we hope to inspire further research in affective and cognitive computing over longer timescales. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest for this call for chapters include, but are not limited to: - New theories and findings on continuous emotion recognition - Multi- and Cross-modal emotion perception and interpretation - Novel neural network models for affective processing - Lifelong affect analysis, perception, and interpretation - New neuroscientific and psychological findings on continuous emotion representation - Embodied artificial agents for empathy and emotion appraisal - Machine learning for affect-driven interventions - Socially intelligent human-robot interaction - Personalized systems for human affect recognition - New theories and findings on empathy modeling - Multimodal processing of empathetic and social signals - Novel neural network models for empathy understanding - Lifelong models for empathetic interactions - Empathetic Human-Robot-Interaction Scenarios - New neuroscientific and psychological findings on empathy representation - Multi-agent communication for empathetic interactions - Empathy as a decision-making modulator - Personalized systems for empathy prediction Each contributed chapter is expected to present a novel research study, a comparative study, or a survey of the literature. SUBMISSIONS All submissions should be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/OMGBook2019 Original artwork and a signed copyright release form will be required for all accepted chapters. For author instructions, please visit: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/book -authors-editors/resources-guidelines/book-manuscript-guidelines We would also like to announce that our two datasets, related to emotion expressions and empathy prediction, are now fully available. You can have access to them and obtain more information by visiting their website: - OMG-EMOTION - https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/omgchallenges/omg_emotion.html - OMG-EMPATHY - https://www2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wtm/omgchallenges/omg_empathy.html If you want more information, please do not hesitate to contact me: barros(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de IMPORTANT DATES: - Submissions of full-length chapters: 31st of October 2019 (message us if you need more time!) -- -- Best regards, *Pablo Barros* *http://www.pablobarros.net <http://www.pablobarros.net>*

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