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(CfP) CVPR 2023: 5th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)
by Dimitrios Kollias 11 May '24

11 May '24

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the invitation to contribute to the 5th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023. (1): The Competition is split into the below four Challenges: * Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge * Expression Classification Challenge * Action Unit Detection Challenge * Emotional Reaction Intensity Estimation Challenge The first 3 Challenges are based on an augmented version of the Aff-Wild2 database, which is an audiovisual in-the-wild database of 594 videos of 584 subjects of around 3M frames; it contains annotations in terms of valence-arousal, expressions and action units. The last Challenge is based on the Hume-Reaction dataset, which is a multimodal dataset of about 75 hours of video recordings of 2222 subjects; it contains continuous annotations for the intensity of 7 emotional experiences. Participants are invited to participate in at least one of these Challenges. There will be one winner per Challenge; the top-3 performing teams of each Challenge will have to contribute paper(s) describing their approach, methodology and results to our Workshop; the accepted papers will be part of the CVPR 2023 proceedings; all other teams are also encouraged to submit paper(s) describing their solutions and final results; the accepted papers will be part of the CVPR 2023 proceedings. More information about the Competition can be found here<https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/cvpr-2023-5th-abaw/>. Important Dates: * Call for participation announced, team registration begins, data available: 13 January, 2023 * Final submission deadline: 18 March, 2023 * Winners Announcement: 19 March, 2023 * Final paper submission deadline: 24 March, 2023 * Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 3 April, 2023 * Camera ready version deadline: 8 April, 2023 Chairs: Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University of London, UK Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Panagiotis Tzirakis, Hume AI Alice Baird, Hume AI Alan Cowen, Hume AI (2): The Workshop solicits contributions on the recent progress of recognition, analysis, generation and modelling of face, body, and gesture, while embracing the most advanced systems available for face and gesture analysis, particularly, in-the-wild (i.e., in unconstrained environments) and across modalities like face to voice. In parallel, this Workshop will solicit contributions towards building fair models that perform well on all subgroups and improve in-the-wild generalisation. Original high-quality contributions, including: - databases or - surveys and comparative studies or - Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning / AutoML / (Data-driven or physics-based) Generative Modelling Methodologies (either Uni-Modal or Multi-Modal; Uni-Task or Multi-Task ones) are solicited on the following topics: i) "in-the-wild" facial expression or micro-expression analysis, ii) "in-the-wild" facial action unit detection, iii) "in-the-wild" valence-arousal estimation, iv) "in-the-wild" physiological-based (e.g.,EEG, EDA) affect analysis, v) domain adaptation for affect recognition in the previous 4 cases vi) "in-the-wild" face recognition, detection or tracking, vii) "in-the-wild" body recognition, detection or tracking, viii) "in-the-wild" gesture recognition or detection, ix) "in-the-wild" pose estimation or tracking, x) "in-the-wild" activity recognition or tracking, xi) "in-the-wild" lip reading and voice understanding, xii) "in-the-wild" face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding), xiii) "in-the-wild" characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition), xiv) "in-the-wild" group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality) xv) subgroup distribution shift analysis in affect recognition xvi) subgroup distribution shift analysis in face and body behaviour xvii) subgroup distribution shift analysis in characteristic analysis Accepted workshop papers will appear at CVPR 2023 proceedings. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 24 March, 2023 Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 3 April, 2023 Camera ready version 8 April, 2023 Chairs: Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University of London, UK Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Panagiotis Tzirakis, Hume AI Alice Baird, Hume AI Alan Cowen, Hume AI In case of any queries, please contact d.kollias(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk> Kind Regards, Dimitrios Kollias, on behalf of the organising committee ======================================================================== Dr Dimitrios Kollias, PhD, MIEEE, FHEA Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Artificial Intelligence Member of Multimedia and Vision (MMV) research group Member of Queen Mary Computer Vision Group Associate Member of Centre for Advanced Robotics (ARQ) Academic Fellow of Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI) School of EECS Queen Mary University of London ========================================================================

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[Jobs] 3 x permanent positions in Computational Social Interaction Research @ U Glasgow, Scotland
by Rachael Jack 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

Dear colleagues *Please share; excuse any cross-posting* [REMINDER] < 1 week remaining. Closing date: 31 October 2023 We are delighted to announce three full-time permanent posts in the Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN), School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Scotland. cSCAN members operate in a research-rich capacity, with teaching-rich staff leading in the innovation and delivery of education 1. Full Professor/Associate Prof (Senior Lecturer)/Assistant Prof (Lecturer) 2. Assistant Prof (Lecturer) We are seeking interdisciplinary researchers with internationally competitive research using innovative approaches to the computational modelling of social perception, cognition, interaction, and/or communication, with a focus on dynamic signalling, dyadic interactions, and/or dialogue in human-human and/or human-agent interactions. 3. Research Fellow/Specialist We are seeking a researcher who will make a leading contribution to develop social interaction and communication technologies, including technologies to generate 3D dynamic human social signals, such as facial expressions, body movements, and voices, multimodal signals and dyadic interactions, plus 3D scenes and other socially related multimodal signals, the use and development of AI-related technologies to support these developments. See our Nature Careers listing: https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12803261/professor-senior-lecturer… and Twitter post: https://twitter.com/UofG_cSCAN/status/1683499306479755276?s=20 Questions? Get in touch! Best, Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Social Cognition School of Psychology & Neuroscience University of Glasgow Scotland, G12 8QB +44 (0) 141 330 5087 [MOSAIC_small_white.tiff]

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NIST Biometrics at 60 Invitation
by Hahn, Carina (Fed) 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

We cordially invite you to join us for the National Institute of Standards and Technology Biometrics at 60 event<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-group/biometrics-60>. The Biometrics at 60 event is a milestone celebration for the decades of biometric research and collaboration between scientists and stakeholders at NIST (NBS), other government agencies, industry, and academia in promoting the science and standards surrounding this important field of measurement research. Join us for this celebration where you can find out more about the history of our work, how this history has shaped the science of biometrics, and where some of our future efforts will lead us. The event will be held virtually on November 14th and 15th of 2023, and registration is free! Your participation is most welcome. See the attached invitation for more information. Craig Watson NIST Information Technology Laboratory Information Access Division Image Group Manager craig.watson(a)nist.gov<mailto:craig.watson@nist.gov>

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Society for Affective Science 2024 Conference Call for Abstracts
by ATKINSON, ANTHONY P. 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to you regarding the Society for Affective Science (SAS) and its annual meeting, which will be held in-person from Friday, March 1 – Sunday, March 3, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. You can learn more about the 2024 SAS conference here: https://society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/2024-sas-annual-confe… SAS is an excellent venue to learn about what’s new in affective science. The interdisciplinary nature of the program is also uniquely beneficial. The submission deadline is Wednesday, November 15, 2023. Don't miss out on the opportunity to present your science to the affective science community!: https://society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/2024-sas-annual-confe… Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you will join us in New Orleans, LA at the 2024 SAS meeting! All the best, Anthony Atkinson Department of Psychology Durham University Durham, UK https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-p-atkinson/ https://atkinsonap.github.io/ ****************************************************************************** SAS 2024 Call for Abstract Submissions Open The Society for Affective Science (SAS) is delighted to open its call for abstracts to be considered for the 2024 Annual Conference. The conference will be held in-person between Friday, March 1 – Sunday, March 3, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The conference will once again feature Preconference sessions which will take place on Friday, March 1, 2024 prior to the opening of the Conference. We encourage submissions from authors at all career stages. There is no fee to submit an abstract. The conference registration fees will be announced in November. Abstract Submissions – Four Submission Types 1. Poster: New Idea 2. Poster: New Results 3. Flash Talk 4. Symposium Each presenting author may submit a maximum of TWO abstracts total, across all tracks (Poster: New Idea, Poster: New Results, Flash Talk, and Symposium). Abstracts submitted by the same presenting author must reflect two different research projects. There is no abstract limit for non-presenting authors. CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS AND THE SUBMISSION PORTALS<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/t.e2ma.net/click/nm5xnk/rdx0y3ub/36f8rac…> Advancing Interdisciplinary Science In line with our goal to facilitate interdisciplinarity, we welcome submissions from across all domains of affective science, including anthropology, business, computer science, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, history, integrative medicine, law, linguistics, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public health, sociology, theater, and more. Important Dates Submission Deadline Abstracts must be submitted by Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. Baker Island Time (BIT; UTC-12 — last time zone on earth) to be considered for inclusion in the program. Please note: due to the earlier conference dates, there will be no extension to the submission deadline as in past years. Plan to submit early. Submission Review Process Abstracts will be evaluated based on scholarly merit by a double-blind peer review process with our Abstract Review Board. Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts will be e-mailed to the corresponding author by early-January 2024. Presenting authors must be the first author on the submitted abstract. All presenters must register and pay to attend the meeting. Questions? For any SAS 2024 conference related questions, please email sas(a)podiumconferences.com<mailto:sas@podiumconferences.com?subject=SAS%20>. For more updates, watch our website!<https://society-for-affective-science.org/conferences/2024-sas-annual-confe…> ******************************************************************************

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