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Lectureship positions at the University of Plymouth
by Chris Longmore 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Hello everyone, In the School of Psychology here at the University of Plymouth we currently have three lectureship positions advertised. Two of these posts are for any area of Psychology with one available as a permanent appointment and the other as a fixed-term 3 year position. We also have a lectureship advertised in behavioural or cognitive neuroscience. This latter post is for a fixed term of 4 years. In addition to behavioural research facilities including a dedicated child development lab (BabyLab) we also have a new Brain Imaging Research Centre (https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/psychology/brain-research-and-imaging-c…) which is due to open next year with MRI, EEG and TMS facilities available. The lecturer in behavioural or cognitive neuroscience in particular is anticipated to be heavily involved in developing research at this new facility although the facilities will be available to all. Links to the adverts are given below. Lecturer in Psychology (Permanent) https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCJ667/lecturer-in-psychology Lecturer in Psychology (3 years fixed term) https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCJ877/lecturer-in-psychology Lecturer in Psychology - Behavioural or Cognitive Neuroscience (4 years fixed term) https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCJ925/lecturer-in-psychology-behavioral-or-cogn… The deadline for all applications is 12 Midnight, Wednesday 6th January 2021. Chris -- Dr Chris Longmore School of Psychology Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences University of Plymouth Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA Tel: +44 (0)1752 584890 Fax: +44 (0)1752 584808 Email : chris.longmore(a)plymouth.ac.uk ________________________________ [http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/images/email_footer.gif]<http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/worldclass> This email and any files with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient then copying, distribution or other use of the information contained is strictly prohibited and you should not rely on it. If you have received this email in error please let the sender know immediately and delete it from your system(s). Internet emails are not necessarily secure. While we take every care, University of Plymouth accepts no responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan emails and their attachments. University of Plymouth does not accept responsibility for any changes made after it was sent. Nothing in this email or its attachments constitutes an order for goods or services unless accompanied by an official order form.

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Postdoc Position in Face Processing and Social Cognition
by Angela Yu 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Applications are invited from highly motivated researchers for a postdoctoral position immediately available in the Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Prof. Angela Yu, at University of California, San Diego. One current project of particular interest is using machine learning, computer vision, and statistical techniques to model human face processing and representation, as well as face-based social cognition. More broadly, Dr. Yu’s lab applies modern machine learning and statistical tools to extract computational principles that underlie cognitive processes that enable intelligent behavior, in particular how humans and other intelligent agents perform inference, learning, decision-making, and social interactions under conditions of uncertainty and non-stationarity. Current interests include face processing, attention, active sensing, judgement and decision making, and social cognition. Applicants should be committed to applying rigorous computational and mathematical tools to understand natural intelligence. Experience or interest in carrying out human behavioral experiments (either in person or on-line) and/or collaborating with neuroimaging/neurophysiology laboratories is desirable. Initial appointment is for one year, renewable for up to 2-3 years. Dr. Yu's lab is situated within the Cognitive Science department, and also affiliated with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, the Computer Science Department, the Neurosciences Graduate Program, and the Institute of Neural Computation. There are ample opportunities for collaborations with related groups across the UCSD main campus, the medical school, and the Salk Institute. Interested candidates should send a research statement (in particular explaining why you think you would be a good fit for this position in my lab), along with a CV including publications, to Dr. Angela Yu (ajyu(a)ucsd.edu <mailto:ajyu@ucsd.edu>) with the subject “Postdoc Application” (I may miss your application otherwise). Two or more letters of references should be sent directly by the recommenders to ajyu(a)ucsd.edu <mailto:ajyu@ucsd.edu>. More information about Dr. Yu’s group can be found at https://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu <https://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu>. ---------------------------------------------- Angela Yu Associate Professor Dept. of Cognitive Science Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute UC San Diego 858-822-3317 http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu ----------------------------------------------

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CfP: Special issue of British Journal of Psychology on the other-‘race’ effect
by Stelter, Marleen 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

Dear colleagues, We are happy to invite proposals for contributions to a forthcoming special issue “Bridging the gap between intergroup and face perception research: Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other-‘race’ effect” for the British Journal of Psychology (see attached pdf for details). Interested authors should initially submit a proposal (including title, prospective author(s), affiliation(s), abstract with 200 words maximum) to bjop(a)wiley.com<mailto:bjop@wiley.com> no later than 1 March 2021. We look forward to receiving your proposal. Best wishes, Marleen Stelter (marleen.stelter(a)uni-hamburg.de<mailto:marleen.stelter@uni-hamburg.de>) Stefan Schweinberger (stefan.schweinberger(a)uni-jena.de<mailto:stefan.schweinberger@uni-jena.de>) -- Dr. Marleen Stelter Universität Hamburg Department of Social Psychology Von-Melle-Park 5 - 20146 Hamburg, Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 40 42838-5530 UHH Personal <https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/sozialpsychologie/personen/s…> Webpage<https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/sozialpsychologie/personen/s…>

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looking for sub-Saharan African and Western European face databases
by Annelies Vredeveldt 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Dear fellow face researchers, For a project on cross-cultural differences in eyewitness testimony and identification, my PhD student Gabi de Bruïne and I are looking for databases of young adult male faces (real, not generated) from amongst which to select fillers for photo lineups for a black Gambian target and a white Dutch target. Ideally, we would like to select Gambian fillers and Dutch fillers, respectively, but I can imagine that would be hard to find. An alternative option would be to select a range of sub-Saharan African fillers and a range of Western European fillers, respectively. Does any of you perhaps know of any databases we could use? We have already looked at the face databases collected in this Google document <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K-Gelc-HBgbwsDKWraCubGVf30uOrnTo3FT…>, and found some Western European faces (some Dutch, Scottish, Danish) and some sub-Saharan African faces (South African), but not enough of a range to make the lineup work, particularly for the African target. Any help or advice would be much appreciated! Many thanks, Annelies *Dr. Annelies Vredeveldt* Associate Professor *| *Department of Criminal Law and Criminology *| *Faculty of Law *| *VU University Amsterdam +31 20 59 83 153 *| *a.vredeveldt(a)vu.nl *| *www.annelies.vredeveldt.com <http://annelies.vredeveldt.com/> *|* www.allp.nl

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Face resource: 10K generated face photos
by Quoc Vuong 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Dear all There is a face resource that you may find useful in face-perception research. The faces are computer-generated but are photo-realistic. The link to the company is (Generated Photos): https://generated.photos/ All the images they offer are free with a link for non-commercial purposes. For the academic community, they have also made a 10K dataset with meta-data freely available for research: https://generated.photos/datasets (scroll towards the bottom) They have a very good support team, who are very responsive to questions. Thanks, Quoc. =========================== Newcastle University Biosciences Institute & School of Psychology

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databases needed: including residence information of the depicted persons
by Claudia Menzel 14 Nov '20

14 Nov '20

Dear all, for a research project, I am looking for databases that include at least one measure of facial appearance (i.e., face photographs or rating data) and at least one measure for the current or previous residence of the person depicted (i.e., city name, city size, GPS data, zip code, level of urbanization, or greenness of neighbourhood). Do you know of any database that has data for both variables (facial apearance /and /residence) available? I am grateful for all kind of suggestions. Thank you! Best wishes, Claudia Menzel -- Dr. Claudia Menzel Social, Environmental, & Economic Psychology University of Koblenz-Landau Room H-316, Fortstraße 7, 76829 Landau, Germany (note that I'm in homeoffice now!) Homepage: www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/landau/fb8/psychaus/AGUmwelt/Personen/menzel Twitter: @LEPsyUnit Scientist4Future: https://scientists4future-landau.de

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"Other-race" expressive faces needed
by Graham Hole 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi, I'm looking for a set of non-white male faces (black, Asian or East Asian) with each person displaying the traditional six expressions (happiness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise, sadness and a neutral expression). Does anyone have a set that I could use? If so, please contact me. Thanks! Graham Hole, University of Sussex. Email: grahamh(a)sussex.ac.uk

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Deadline extended to 5th Nov 2020: CALL FOR PAPERS - HBU 2021 I
by ABHIJIT DAS 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - HBU 2021 11th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU) Focus theme: Multi-source aspects of behavioral understanding Held in conjunction with WACV 2021https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/hbu2021 Paper submission deadline: November 5th, 2020 Notifications: November 18th, 2020 ********************************************************************* ORGANIZERS Abhijit Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Albert Ali Salah, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Vitomir Štruc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ABOUT Domains for human behaviour understanding predominantly (e.g., multimedia, human-computer interaction, robotics, affective computing and social signal processing) rely on advanced pattern recognition techniques to automatically interpret complex behavioural patterns generated when humans interact with machines or with other agents. This is a challenging research area where many issues are still open, including the joint modelling of behavioural cues taking place at different time scales, the inherent uncertainty of machine detectable evidence of human behaviour, the mutual influence of people involved in interactions, the presence of long term dependencies in observations extracted from human behaviour, and the important role of dynamics in human behaviour understanding. Computer vision is a key technology for analysis and synthesis of human behaviour but stands to gain much from multi-modality and multi-source processing, in terms of improving accuracy, resource use, robustness, and contextualization. This workshop, organized as part of WACV 2021, will gather researchers dealing with the problem of modelling human behaviour under its multiple facets (expression of emotions, display of relational attitudes, the performance of an individual or joint actions, etc.), with particular attention to multi-source aspects, including multi-sensor, multi-participant and multi-modal settings. Example challenges are the additional resource and robustness constraints, explorations in information fusion, social and contextual aspects of interactions, and building multi-source representations of social and affective signals with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art. The HBU workshops, previously organized as satellite events to major conferences in different disciplines such as ICPR’10, AMI’11, IROS’12, ACMMM’13, ECCV’14, UBICOMP’15, ACMMM’16, FG’18, ECCV’18, ICCV’19 have a unique aspect of fostering cross-pollination of disciplines, bringing together researchers from a variety of fields, such as computer vision, HCI, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, interaction design, ambient intelligence, psychology and robotics. The diversity of human behaviour, the richness of multimodal data that arises from its analysis, and the multitude of applications that demand rapid progress in this area ensure that the HBU Workshops provide a timely and relevant discussion and dissemination platform. For HBU@WACV, we particularly solicit contributions on human behaviour understanding that combine multiple sources of information, be it across modalities, sensors, or subjects under observation. The workshop solicits papers on general topics related to human behaviour understanding, but with a distinct focus on multi-source solutions. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + Multimodal solutions for human behaviour modelling and analysis + Multimodal solutions towards behavioural biometrics (gait, handwriting, keystroke dynamics, etc.) + Methods for multi-instance learning in behavioural understanding, + Analysis of multi-participant settings and of social interactions, + Multi-instance representation for characterizing human health, empathy, + Deep learning for multi-party interactions + Multimodal deep learning for behaviour understanding + Adversarial learning approaches + Related sensor technologies + Information fusions approach for behaviour analysis + Realistic behaviour synthesis in multiple modalities and for multi-party settings + Mobile and wearable systems for behaviour monitoring + Datasets and benchmarks + Related applications PAPER SUBMISSION Submission instruction can be found athttps://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/hbu2021/paper-submission/ Please feel free to contact for any further details. Abhijit Das, Qiang Ji, Umapada Pal, Albert Ali Salah, Vitomir Štruc HBU 2021 Organizers

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PhD position available - emotional expression recognition
by Ottmar Lipp 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Good morning, I have a PhD position available in my lab to work on the processing of emotional faces. Can you please distribute? Thanks Ottmar Lipp https://www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships/phd-in-the-…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/protect-au.mimecast.com/s/iW90C1WLPxcWZN…> Ottmar V. Lipp, PhD, FASSA, FAPS Professor | Psychology and Counselling | Faculty of Health | QUT Phone: +61 7 3138 4550 | Email: ottmar.lipp(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:ottmar.lipp@qut.edu.au> Web: https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/ottmar.lipp B509, Level 5, B Wing, O Block, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD, 4059, Australia ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6734-8608 Google Scholar: 5qCfuBwAAAAJ Scopus: 7004506548

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Reminder about the Face Science Symposium and Abstract Deadline
by Alicia Nortje 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Dear all, **This is a friendly reminder about the 8th Face Science Symposium that willtake place on Tuesday, 17 November 2020 at 08h30, to start at 09h00 and toend at 13h00.** The Face Science Symposium is a joint research and support initiative between the Eyewitness Research Group (UCT, Department of Psychology), the South African Police Service, and Facial Identification Researchers and Practitioners. The initiative was formed in 2014, and we have held a conference every year since. *The format is different this year because the symposium will be hosted online.* We aim to have between 5 and 7 speakers, depending on the number of keynote speakers. All presentations will be 20 minutes long, with 5-10 minutes for questions/discussion. *There is no cost involved; therefore, it is free to attend or to present.* *To register for the conference, as a delegate or a speaker, please go here:https://forms.gle/XFKMpw8ZUK91MjV79 <https://forms.gle/XFKMpw8ZUK91MjV79>* **Registration as a delegate closes on 12 November.The deadline for abstractsubmissions is 30 October. We have extended the deadline for abstract submissions to Monday 2 November. ** *We would love to have presentations from professionals who work in the field. So far, we have psychology, biomechanical engineering, and forensic art.* We want to ensure *a range of topics*, therefore submission of an abstract is not a guarantee that you will be presenting. Therefore, we will confirm with you (between 30 October and 5 November) if your abstract submission was successful. Registration as a delegate is immediately successful. Previous topics include police interviewing techniques, eyewitness memory for multiple perpetrator crimes, interviewing witnesses, reconstruction of faces from skulls), drawing techniques for faces, different tools for constructing composites, and person recognition from CCTV footage. *Please share this e-mail far and wide.* We are not limited by physical borders this year, so we can accommodate international delegates and attendees. Our original intention for this collaboration was to foster discussion and research between researchers and practitioners who are interested in questions and issues about faces. Therefore, as always, we would like a mix of presentations, ranging from academic topics (from different departments), in-field experience/case studies/cases, and practical presentations. Please do not RSVP to me personally; instead, RSVP through the link above. If you have questions or issues, then you are welcome to e-mail me. Thanks in advance, and looking forward to spending the day with you at the virtual symposium. Kind regards, Alicia Nortje -- *Alicia Nortje, PhD* *Postdoctoral Research Fellow,PhD (Applied Psychology; Psychology and Law)**Eyewitness Laboratory, * *Applied Cognitive Science and Experimental Neuropsychology Team (ACSENT) laboratory, * *Department of Psychology, * *University of Cape TownSkype: lichza* *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. However, please extend the same courtesy to me. *

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